Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Kitchen Dog announces Sick as headliner for New Works Festival

By Pegasus News wire

Kitchen Dog Theater's New Works Festival, now in its tenth year, is an exciting, eclectic series that not only includes the mainstage production of Sick but also a collection of seven staged readings, featuring the diverse and vibrant new voices of local, national and international playwrights, and PUP Fest, a co-production with Junior Players, that features some of the Metroplex's finest high school playwrights. Titles and performance information for the staged reading series and PUP Fest will be announced very soon.

In Sick, a college professor brings his star student home to meet his dysfunctional family – a home so obsessed with cleanliness that the real dirt lurks around every corner and behind every sentence. Toying with post 9/11 phobias, this quirky dark comedy plays upon our fears, both real and imagined.

Sick

“In a world where men fly planes into buildings and release deadly gases into crowded subways, where our food and water supplies are polluted with E.coli and Salmonella, this brilliant new play asks: How can you not be afraid? Can living in fear really be called living?” says director Christopher Carlos. “In the last 20 years, with our atmospheric qualities declining and allergies and other illnesses on the rise, our germ phobic society is creating a medical crisis by over-use of “antibacterial” soaps and hand cleaners. We have scared ourselves into creating more dangerous forms of disease, creating penicillin–resistant bacteria. I hope that this play will lead our audiences to dialogue about how we are affecting our Mother Earth and what we can do to change the direction we are headed in before we all become sick.”

KDT Co-Artistic Director Christopher Carlos directs the National New Play Network World Premiere (NNPN) headliner featuring a great cast that includes Lee Trull, James Crawford, Lisa Hassler, Martha Harms, and Lee Helms. Production team will feature KDT Company Members Linda Blase (Light Design), Christina Dickson (Costume Design), Emily K. Young (Sound Design), Judy Niven and Jen Gilson-Gilliam (Prop Design) alongside acclaimed designer Michael Sullivan (Set Design). Jonathan Lynn will serve as Stage Manager.

Sick runs from May 30 - June 28, and tickets can be purchased online or by calling 214-953-1055.

Posted by Shawn

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