“Well I don’t know anybody that likes the past.”
-Maggie
It doesn’t rain much in the arid mountain west. But it sure has been pouring drama lately.
There was the dazzling THE ESSENTIAL STRAIGHT & NARROW from the Mad Ones back in June. And then The Debate Society’s massively successful JACUZZI this fall.
And now here comes another new play from one of New York’s small theatres – another one set in the west. And another one about a broken family system. But this time Wyoming is the place.
Colorado native Brian Watkin’s mysterious, aching new western play WYOMING is about setting a family story straight. Moving back and forth through time but focused on a Thanksgiving dinner in 1995, the play evokes those endless straightaways and solitary ranges where westerners may roam – but not escape.
The play is gorgeously crafted, and the second act has one of those prolonged sequences of theatre magic that can only happen – obviously – in the theatre.
So saddle up and head on down to the East Village’s Theater for the New City round about mid January.
