ALLIANCE REP OPENS SEASON WITH A BOOM

Alliance Rep is a professional (Actors Equity) theater in central Jersey that is well worth your attention. They open the 2010-2011 season with a comedy…a good laugh is just what we need in these troubled times!

presents

boom
by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
directed by Michael Driscoll

When a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, a young couple's date takes a wild turn. Will they survive? What about the fish in the tank? And who is that woman playing the drums? An epic and intimate comedy, boom explores the influences of fate versus randomness in the course of one's life, and life as we know it on this planet.

WHEN: October 8-23, 2010, Friday and Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday matinees October 10 & 17 at 2 PM; Friday evening Cast Talk Back October 15

WHERE: Edison Valley Playhouse, 2196 Oak Tree Road, Edison 908.755.4654

Alliance Rep Artistic Director Michael Driscoll of Linden directs a talented cast consisting of Beth Painter of Westfield, Lilli Marques of East Hanover and Gus Ibranyi of Bloomfield. Set design is by Darianna Fraser of Clark with lighting design by Ed Pearson of Middlesex. The stage manager is Kelly Maizenaski of Middlesex.
Here’s what critics had to say about boom:
"from pants-around-the-ankles comedy to hipster TWILIGHT ZONE takeoff, boom is imaginative and easy to like."—The New Yorker

“Sex! Planet-ruining cataclysms! Loads of booze! We're ready for whatever strange places boom wants to take us."—Variety

"Mr. Nachtrieb [the playwright] has a gift for darkly funny dialogue and an appealing way to approach big themes sideways...boom winds up speaking, quietly and piquantly, to our endearing fascination with and need for myths about the beginning of life as well as its end..." —NY Times

"A grandly whacked out apocalypse fantasy..one of those charmed evenings." —Washington Post
"Both the funniest play seen hereabouts this season and one of the most thoughtful." —Cleveland Plain Dealer