Mainstage Production
DYING CITY
by Christopher Shinn
directed by Julie Hamberg
January 14 – February 8 . 2009
previews January 14 . 15 . 16
opening January 17
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Regional Premiere
DYING CITY, the enthralling new play Lincoln Center produced to wide acclaim, makes its regional premiere at Southern Rep in January 2009.
Young therapist Kelly, whose husband was killed in Iraq, is attempting to move on with her life when her husband’s twin brother arrives unannounced. The handsome twin, Peter, an actor, has just walked offstage during Long Day’s Journey Into Night. His probing questions about his brother’s death reveal a hidden fractured past. Through a series of flashbacks to Kelly’s marriage, the former in-laws are forced to confront the loss they share.
Called “achingly compassionate” by Variety, this Pulitzer-prize nominated piece explores, with humor and grace, how profoundly outside events can affect each of us.
The New York Times honors Christopher Shinn, author of this “transfixing tale,” as “among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today.” Julie Hamberg will mount this two-hander. Hamberg was Associate Artistic Director at Vital Theatre in NYC where she’s known for her work on new plays, having directed over twenty premieres.
“Dying City is…satisfyingly spooky, crisp and corny as an episode of ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents.’ But in answering the plot’s whodunit-type questions, it spawns a wriggling host of other, deeper questions that stay with you into the night. — New York Times
“Like a leaner, more droll Tennessee Williams” — Variety
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