Race
boom!
By Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Directed by Kari Goetz
Mar. 11 – 28, 2010
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $24.50
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Winner!
- Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actress, Reader's Poll Runner-Up – Summer Bohnenkamp-Jenkins
It’s the end of the world as they know it
"SEX! PLANET-RUINING CATACLYSMS LOADS OF BOOZE! boom! has all of these things." – Variety
Jobsite Theater is delighted to present the hit comedy boom! by award-winning playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. boom! received its world premiere at Ars Nova in New York in 2008, and has been produced at Woolly Mammoth, Seattle Rep, and Cleveland Public Theatre to critical acclaim. According to a recent study by Theater Communications Group, boom! is one of the most-produced plays of the 2009-10 season, with productions at 12 other theater companies around the U.S.
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"UPROARIOUSLY FUNNY. It's literate, coarse, thoughtful, sweet, scabrously inappropriate, wracked by existential anxiety, and wonderfully humane ... this is one end-of-the-world story that"s likely to leave you grinning from ear to ear." – City Paper
In this explosive comedy about the end of the world, Jo answers a casual encounters Craigslist ad for "sex to change the course of the world." She has no idea that grad student Jules actually fears the apocalypse is at hand and is looking for a partner to repopulate the species. That he’s gay and she hates babies is the least of their problems. Will their "intensely significant coupling" lead to another big bang, or is mankind’s fate in the hands of someone watching from outside the fishbowl?
"We are very excited to continue this season with another comedy," says Jobsite Theater Producing Artistic Director David M. Jenkins. "Tampa Bay has been turning out in record numbers this season for fun shows like Night of the Living Dead and What the Butler Saw, and we are certain that boom! will continue that trend. The apocalypse has never been funnier."
About the Artists
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb studied both theater and biology at Brown University and draws on his experience as a biology student for boom!. He is a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include Hunter Gatherers, Colorado, Meaningless, and The Amorphous Blob. Hunter Gatherers received the 2007 American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg New Play Award for best new play to premiere outside of New York and the 2007 Will Glickman Prize for best new play in the Bay Area. His newest play, TIC, premiered this year with the Encore Theatre Company (SF). He's also working on a commission for South Coast Rep and was a 2008 Resident Playwright at the Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco.
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Jobsite's production of boom! Features Summer Bohnenkamp-Jenkins (The History of the Devil, Gorey Stories) as Barbara, Geneva Rae (Picasso at the Lapin Agile, American Stage's Blithe Spirit) as Jo and Chris Holcom (Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Embedded) as Jules, under the direction of comedy veteran Kari Goetz (Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The March of the Kitefliers). Brian Smallheer provides the scenic and light design and Katrina Stevenson provides the costumes.
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