The European Premiere of a new play by Bekah Brunstetter
Supported by Old Vic New Voices
Part of Grey Light’s American Voices series
Directed by Georgina Guy
Designed by Hilary Statts
Presented by Grey Light Productions in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre
Sunday 22, Monday 23, Sunday 29, Monday 30 March and Sunday 5 and Monday 6 April 2009
All performances at 7.30pm.
Tickets £13, £9 concessions.
Performance Length: Approximately 90 minutes
Full booking information here
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"Listen. There's nothin goin down over there. Anybody who's over there is just trainin' the new police. Playin' card games, accidentally settin' flares off and lightin' their own pants on fire. It's not a fuckin' video game, it's not Vietnam, it's California, it's Summer camp."
In Fayetteville, North Carolina, sits one of the South's largest military bases. Practically everybody's somebody is over there. Flight Attendant Abby has finally agreed to settle down with her thoroughly unmilitary fiancé. Her sister Sara is thrilled to have her own husband back home once and for all. But when a mysterious Marine shows up on Abby's red-eye flight, all bets on stability are off. Oohrah! asks how we can remain true to ourselves when the pressures of domestic and military expectation threaten all.
"Lacey wrote an essay about you for school, I put it on the fridge. She wants you to take her to the rifle range."
This European premiere of a powerful and unexpected new play marks the London debut of the award-winning new American playwright Bekah Brunstetter, winner of the New York Innovative Theater Award for Best Original Full-Length Play, and twice winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival. Her work has received acclaim across the United States and has been produced at Boston Theatre Works, the Ohio Theater, The Alliance Theatre and many others. She is director of New Play Development for Working Man’s Clothes Productions, New York City, and works with groups at the Ars Nova, the Playwright’s Center, At Play Productions and the Women’s Project Writer’s Lab. Oohrah! was workshopped at the Ars Nova, New York City, in September 2008, directed by Leigh Silverman. www.bekahbrunstetter.com
Director Georgina Guy is Artistic Director of Grey Light Productions and has directed all the company's shows to date, including BANK and Other Plays (King's Head Theatre), Uncle Barry (Blue Elephant Theatre) and American Voices (Greenwich Playhouse and Blue Elephant Theatre). Assisting work includes Enduring Freedom at the Finborough Theatre. She also works as an Assistant Teacher at RADA. www.greylightproductions.co.uk
The Press on Bekah Brunstetter
“In just a few short years, Bekah Brunstetter has emerged as a major voice in Off-Off-Broadway theater.” offoffline.com
“Thoughtful, hilarious and poignant.” Washington Square News
“Remarkable…the ground covered in this new play by Bekah Brunstetter goes way past the expected to rip through the gut
while you're laughing… Marvelously perverse humor.” nytheatre.com
"Bekah Brunstetter's use of language is exquisite; her dialogue sings and expresses character with telling detail." Broadway World
