RANDOM ACCESS
by Mary Carol Stunkel
WHEN: Sunday, May 17th, at 2:00 PM
WHERE: Art Tank 529 Bangs Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ
ADMISSION: $7 suggested donation allows Black Box to continue to bring to the forefront the work of local artists.
For more information log onto www.blackboxnj.org.
The play is about the transformation made possible when Arnie, a cantankerous old architect, and Renee, a young mother fighting to regain custody of her five-year-old son, encounter each other, their past, their memories and their capacity for caring that can change their future.
“The play is set in a long-term care facility. One of the things we don’t want to deal with in this country is the old. One of the others high on the list is single mothers. Both characters are outsiders in the world and in the country,” says playwright Stunkel. “Among the things I am interested in thinking about in this play is whether one can design a future without opening the closets of one’s past? What if they are locked, and the key to getting someone you love back is buried in a place you are afraid to go?”
“Mary Carol is a wonderfully sensitive, intuitive, and emotional writer who can also craft one heck of a dramatic story,” says Alexis Kozak, who runs Black Box’s New Play Initiative. “She combines strong characters, emotional logic and intelligence, and a well-laid out plot to really hit you in the gut with this piece.”
