Reckless by Craig Lucas
Directed by Richard Iverson
January 21st – January 31st 2016
(January 21st – 8pm, January 22nd – 8pm, January 23rd – 8pm, January 24th – 2pm, January 28th – 8pm, January 29th – 8pm, January 30th – 8pm, January 31st – 2pm)
Tickets: $20 (general admission-no assigned seating) approx run time: 1 hr and 15 min (no intermission)
On-Line day-of show sales will end at approx: 2:30 pm for evening shows and 10:30 am for the matinee show.
Synopsis:
At home on Christmas Eve, Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her, and she must flee for her life—which she does by scrambling out the kitchen window and into the snowy night. She meets and joins up with Lloyd Bophtelophti, a true "original" who has changed his name to avoid alimony payments and who now lives with a paraplegic named Pootie (who also pretends to be deaf in order to get double disability). Rachel then wins $100,000 on a TV game show and begins a series of picaresque escapades involving numerous psychiatrists and, eventually, an ill-fated reunion with her husband. This richly inventive and often startling dark comedy marked the arrival of an exceptionally imaginative and resourceful young playwright in Mr. Lucas. Filled with bizarre characters and events, the play reflects the fractured life-styles which have become the norm for so many in our tenuous times.
“Mr. Lucas has given us a bittersweet Christmas fable for our time.” – NY Times
“Only Lucas . . . understand[s] how to make something beautiful out of a dream walking.” – Time
