Rising Water
World Premiere
by John Biguenet
EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 6th!
"A rich mixture of tragedy and humor . . . the play grabbed the audience in its first tense moments and never let go. Rising Water is more like cream, rising to the top."
-The Times-Picayune
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A couple awakens in the middle of the night to find their pitch-dark house filling with water. Clambering into their attic, cluttered with a lifetime of possessions that scratch open old wounds, they grapple not only with their terror at the rising water but also with the life they have lived together. When the water finally laps at the attic itself, they claw a hole in the roof to escape. But only one of them is slender enough to squeeze through. Caught between an attic of ghost stories and a rooftop that reveals a New Orleans utterly transformed into a sea of sunken houses, the man and woman struggle to keep the guttering flame of their love from being extinguished by a flood of secrets and feelings never before confessed as they wait for help to arrive.
