Boston Marriage
by David Mamet
Directed by Melinda McCrary

With every successive season we have employed the finest of Kansas City’s theatre artists and artisans, and have unfailingly delivered smart, unique and moving productions. Productions which focus squarely on the playwright, the actor, and powerful storytelling.

It is in that tradition that we offer our next production: David Mamet’s Boston Marriage.

boston marriage: (noun), a long-term loving relationship between two women. - Merriam-Webster

This wickedly funny comedy with Mamet’s trademark tart dialogue and impeccable plotting, centers on two women and the desires, conflict, and compromise that arise in their relationship. Set in the Victorian era, Boston Marriage and its Wildean wit is one of Mamet’s only works to focus on the female perspective--the perfect complement to last summer’s all-male cast of Glengarry Glen Ross. This production features Cheryl Weaver, Cinnamon Schultz and Rachel May Roberts.

David Mamet is the author of some of the best-known and most important plays in American theatre, such as American Buffalo, Oleanna and Speed-the-Plow. Throughout his work he has proven himself a master at scripting stories filled with deception, crime and plot-twists. And tying it all together is dialogue written with an acute ear for language and its use in scrabbling for power. As Ben Brantley wrote in the New York Times, “Mr. Mamet hears American scheming with an exactitude and delight still unsurpassed by any other dramatist.”

Previews January 20-21, 2010
Opens January 22, 2010
Closes February 11, 2010