2010 SEASON

Overview | Kimberly Akimbo (Mar 19 – Apr 17) | Dark Ride (May 21 – Jun 19) | Hunter Gatherers (Jul 16 – Aug 14) | Say You Love Satan (Sep 3 - 25) | Brainpeople (Oct 15 – Nov 13) | APORKALYPSE (Dec 3 - 19)

BRAINPEOPLE
by Jose Rivera                                      
directed by Clyde Simon

October 15 – November 13 (Ohio premiere)

Cross the threshold and take your place at a beastly dinner.

Jose Rivera’s latest play is a surreal drama in which a genial, lonely heiress invites two strangers to her once opulent penthouse for a strange feast commemorating the death of her parents. Taking place in a not-so-distant future, the sounds of a war-torn Los Angeles fill the air. She has done this every year, and the two troubled women she has invited stand to take home $20,000 each if they can make it through dessert. Over the course the evening her dark purpose is revealed to be much more than a mere commemoration, as tensions rise, identities transform, and the main dish proves not to be the only thing with claws. "Rivera has created an intriguing and evocative drama with the social and psychological terrors that have leapt from the grottoes of the women’s minds" – San Francisco Chronicle. "This real-time drama…offers great insight into how basic human nature can go bizarrely astray when the world is falling apart." – San Francisco Bay Guardian.