A dead showdog threatens a promising playwright's plans.
August Strindberg Rep is presenting Strindberg's "There are Crimes and Crimes," adapted and directed by Whitney Aronson.
Strindberg's original play, an impressionistic study of thought, is set in a Paris of the mind, not the city of actuality. A playwright named Maurice, after years of struggle, is expecting success from a drama about to be produced. But on the evening of his victory, in a fit of wild passion, he abandons his mistress and her child to take up with the mistress of a friend. The child dies and he accuses his new mistress of committing murder, while he himself is looked upon by the law as the probable criminal.
This new adaptation will offer a new, lighter take on the story - modernizing the location and setting to contemporary New York and heightening the absurdity by making the human child a treasured champion show dog.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM
