2.5 MINUTE RIDE
By Lisa Kron
Directed by Mark Brokaw
WHEN: Saturday, April 20 - Sunday, May 12, 2013*
WHERE: Two River’s Rechnitz Theater, 21 Bridge Avenue, Red Bank
TICKETS: range from $37 to $65, with discounts available for groups, seniors, and U.S. military personnel, their families, and veterans. A limited number of $20 tickets are available for every performance. Tickets for patrons under 30 are $24 and include the best available seats at every performance. Student matinee tickets are $15. Tickets are available from 732.345.1400 or www.TRTC.org.
2.5 Minute Ride is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Monmouth County and Zynergy Retirement Planning.
Lisa Kron’s 2.5 Minute Ride, first performed in New York in 1999, has been honored with Obie, Drama-Logue and GLAAD Media Awards. In this solo performance, Kron reflects on her father’s life as she recounts a journey that she and her father made to Auschwitz, where all of his family had perished. Kron interweaves this narrative with stories of her Midwestern family’s visits to the Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, where her father—who was by then legally blind—loved to ride the roller coasters. Written and performed by one of the most remarkable storytellers in the American theater, 2.5 Minute Ride is a poignant, funny, complex meditation on tragedy, grief and family.
“2.5 Minute Ride is seminal to the American theater,” says Artistic Director John Dias. “It’s wildly improbable how deep and profoundly moving it is—because it is also very, very funny. It’s a play and performance like nothing else I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Lisa Kron’s (Playwright and Performer) work has been widely produced in New York regionally and internationally. Her plays include In The Wake (Lortel and GLAAD best play nominations, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist, included in Best Plays of 2010-2011); Well (2006 Tony nomination, included in Best Plays of 2003-2004); and The Ver**zon Play (2012 Humana Festival of New Plays). She is also a founding member of the Obie- and Bessie Award-winning theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers. As an actor she was most recently seen in the Foundry Theatre’s Good Person of Szechwan.
Mark Brokaw (Director) directed 2.5 Minute Ride at The Public Theater in 1999. His most recent Broadway credits include Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella and The Lyons. New York premieres include works by David Auburn, Lynda Barry, Douglas Carter Beane, Charles Busch, Julia Cho, Lisa Kron, Kenneth Lonergan, Craig Lucas, Nicky Silver, Paula Vogel, and Wendy Wasserstein. He is the Artistic Director of the Yale Institute for Music Theatre and an Artistic Associate at Roundabout Theatre.
The creative team for 2.5 Minute Ride includes scenic designer Allen Moyer, lighting designer Philip Rosenberg, sound designer Darron L West, and original music by Dan Froot. The stage manager is Rick Steiger.
Audience Extras
- Before the Show
Audiences are invited to learn more about the work of Lisa Kron through Before Play, a free talk that takes place 45 minutes prior to every performance, and Two River’s Lobby Display. - Post-Play Discussions
Audiences are invited to share their questions and responses to the play after the following performances: Wednesday, May 1 at 7pm; Sunday, May 5 at 3 PM; and Wednesday, May 8 at 1 PM.
Accessibility
Two River Theater is fully wheelchair accessible and offers assisted-listening devices and large-print programs at every performance. Audio-described performances are Wednesday, May 8 at 1 PM and Saturday, May 11 at 8 PM. Tickets are available at the discounted rate of $25 for patrons needing audio description. An open-captioned performance is Saturday, May 11 at 3 PM. Tickets are available at the discounted rate of $25 for patrons needing open captions. To reserve wheelchair-accessible seating or tickets for a performance listed above, patrons should call 732.345.1400.
*Saturday, April 20 at 8 PM
Sunday, April 21 at 3 PM
Tuesday, April 23 at 8 PM
Wednesday, April 24 at 7 PM
Thursday, April 25 at 8 PM
Friday, April 26 at 8 PM (Press Opening)
Saturday, April 27 at 3 PM and 8 PM
Sunday, April 28 at 3 PM
Wednesday, May 1 at 1 PM and 7 PM
Thursday, May 2 at 8 PM
Friday, May 3 at 8 PM
Saturday, May 4 at 3 PM and 8 PM
Sunday, May 5 at 3 P PM
Wednesday, May 8 at 1 PM and 7 PM
Thursday, May 9 at 10 AM (student matinee) and at 8 PM
Friday, May 10 at 8 PM
Saturday, May 11 at 3 PM and 8 PM
Sunday, May 12 at 3 PM
Sponsorship
2.5 Minute Ride is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Monmouth County and Zynergy Retirement Planning. Opening nights for the 2012-2013 Season are sponsored by et al fine foods & events and Flowers on Front.
Two River Theater Company is additionally supported in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division within the Department of State and a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, The Hickory Foundation, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Stone Foundation of New Jersey, Monmouth University, Durso Wealth Management Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Investors Bank, OceanFirst Foundation, Springpoint Senior Living Foundation, and many other generous foundations, corporations, businesses and individuals.
