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SYNOPSIS
As the MERCURY rises in the middle of a summer heat wave, a trio of women play a game of whodunit – each a key figure in a murder that has happened, or will happen, or is happening right now.
Names change, details differ, locales vary, but the event remains fixed: someone has been murdered. A crime of opportunity or a crime of passion? It’s a tragedy which, through the telling of it, slowly transforms itself from event into urban legend.
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The narrative is non-linear and each actor plays a variation of each character, illustrating the mutability of fact and giving the story an increasingly familiar but unknowable feeling, like a recurring dream.
COMPANY
CREATIVE
LIL MALINICH
Director
JAYSON MCDONALD
Playwright
CAST
NELIA MCNICOL
Actor 1
Jeanette Planchette, Stephanie Parkinson & Barbara Carroll
AVERY BAXTER
Actor 2
Steph Perkins, Jeannie Platt, Carol Bingeman
INDIANNA ROBINSON-DAWES
Actor 3
Carrie Bartlett, Stevie Pertree, Janet Patton
Press
CREATIVE TEAM
lighting design
Jen Leno
scenic design
Verve Productions
stage manager & graphic design
Edu Diaz
original song
Sonnet Whitaker
sound & prop design
Verve Productions
produced by
in association with The Players Theatre & Verve Productions Nelia McNicol & Avery Baxter
THE PLAYERS THEATRE
115 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012
(Between West 3rd & Bleecker Street)
Box Office Hours - available in person and by the phone
Tuesday - Sunday: 12am - 5pm
(212) 475-1449
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