Out of the Box Theatre Company (OotB) presents Birds of a Feather, composed of two one-act plays: Trifles by Susan Glaspell and the world premiere of The Greenhouse by Robert Karmon.
Trifles by Susan Glaspell
Trifles begins as the county attorney, the sheriff, Mr. Hale, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale enter the Wrights' empty farm house. On prompting from the county attorney, Mr. Hale recounts his visit to the house the previous day, when he found Mrs. Wright behaving strangely and found her husband upstairs with a rope around his neck, dead. Mr. Hale notes that, when he questioned her, Mrs. Wright claimed that she was fast asleep when someone strangled her husband. Often hailed as one of the quintessential feminist plays, Trifles earned Glaspell a Pulitzer Prize and renewed literary recognition.
The Greenhouse by Robert Karmon
A surreal, dark comedy, which finds two strangers meeting on a perhaps blind date in a restaurant and the power struggle that ensues.
