Speech & Debate
Posted in Ensemble, Graphics on June 28th, 2009 by PURE Theatre – Be the first to comment
Will Northcut, Sullivan Graci-Hamilton, and Addison Dent in SPEECH & DEBATE by Stephen Karam, July 30–August 15, 2009
Co-directed by Sharon Graci and David Mandel, Speech & Debate is PURE’s 2009 Summer Slam production. Featuring Addison Dent (A Flea in Her Ear at The Village Playhouse), Sullivan Graci-Rogers (Hogs and A Waffle House Christmas with PURE), and Will Northcut (Rabbit Hole at PURE), the play is a hilarious look at three misfit teenagers in Salem, Oregon.
“A triumph . . . hilarious, cliche-free, and immensely entertaining” —The New York Times
“savvy comedy . . . bristling with vitality, wicked humor, terrific dialogue and a direct pipeline into the zeitgeist of contemporary youth . . . Karam has a keen ear for how teens talk, move and think, how they view each other and the adult world” —Variety
“One of the top ten plays of the year . . . Even if you’re not fluent in IM, you’ll LOL at this subversive comedy . . . Mordant misfits Diwata, Solomon, and Howie come together via circumstance and learn valuable lessons: Sometimes you’ve got to ‘hold it in,’ as The Crucible‘s plucky Puritan Mary tells a sexually confused Abe Lincoln. And sometimes you need to crank up, strip down to a nude body stocking, make like Martha Graham, and let it out.” —Entertainment Weekly