Announcing our 2012/13 Season!

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SUBSCRIPTIONS
InterAct Theatre Company

2030 Sansom Street

Philadelphia, PA 19103

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October 19 - November 11, 2012

The National New Play Network rolling

world premiere of

THE EXIT INTERVIEW

by William Missouri Downs

directed by Seth Rozin

This raucous comedy breaks every theatre convention in the book in service of the big question “Do things really happen for a reason?”  Bertolt Brecht scholar Dick Fig has been terminated by his university and is having an excruciating exit interview with Eunice – a decidedly droll administrator and devout believer.  Eunice engages in small talk.  Dick expounds on existential theories of alienation.  Together, they experience communiques from God, lectures on science and religion, shameless advertisements, offensive cheerleading, and ever-closer attacks by a masked gunman on a shooting rampage across campus. 

January 18 - February 10, 2013

World Premiere Production

ASSASSIN

written by David Robson

directed by Seth Reichgott

Inspired by true-life events, this taut drama about hero worship and forgiveness examines Americans’ contradictory condemnation of, and craving for violence in entertainment.  Thirty years after a brutal on-field hit left a professional football player paralyzed for life, the man responsible (known as the “Assassin”) is himself battling diabetes and alcoholism.  He has arranged a private meeting with the now-quadriplegic’s lawyer to negotiate plans for a public, televised reunion and presumed mea culpa during the halftime of the upcoming Super Bowl.  But what begins as a careful cat-and-mouse game evolves into a volatile evening of stinging accusations and startling confessions. 

A co-production with Act II Playhouse.

April 5 - April 28, 2013

PERMANENT COLLECTION

written by Thomas Gibbons

directed by Seth Rozin

In celebration of our 25th Anniversary we are reviving our most successful production ever!  Permanent Collection garnered critical acclaim and the 2004 Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play, before being produced at dozens of theatres across the country.  Inspired by events at Philadelphia’s storied Barnes Foundation, this compelling drama follows a suburban Museum’s newly hired African American Executive Director, whose ideas for making adjustments to the permanent collection set off a firestorm of racially-charged controversies, within and beyond the institution’s hallowed walls.

“An engrossing, perceptive study of race and art.  An artful blend of fact, fiction and dramatic skill, and in the excellent production by InterAct, the best work by a local playwright to appear on a Philadelphia stage in several years.”  (Philadelphia Inquirer)

“Intellectually charged…beautifully balanced…complicated and emotional…sophisticated and deft.” (Los Angeles Times)

May 31 - June 23, 2013

World Premiere Production

SOME OTHER KIND OF PERSON

Written by Eric Pfeffinger

Directed by Paul Meshejian

This imaginative satire follows a hapless, middle-management wonk on labor arbitrage business in Cambodia, who finds himself at a local brothel teeming with underage sex workers.  Summoning what little moral outrage he has, he attempts to liberate one of the girls…by buying her.  Back at the hotel, his loquacious Indian American business associate says just about anything to seal a deal with prospective clients, and an emotionally fragile, would-be American mother seeks to save her failing marriage by adopting a Cambodian baby.  Some Other Kind of Person offers a surprisingly humorous riff on misguided Western altruism and the commoditization of human beings.      

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