The Bang & The Clatter Theatre .. Sometimes in the Silence
The Bang & The Clatter Theatre … Sometimes in the Silence presents:
This Is How It Goes
By Neil LaBute
Directed by Fred Sternfeld
April 18th (this Friday) thru May 10th
Belinda and Cody Phipps appear to be a typical midwestern couple: teenage sweet-hearts now married with children and a luxurious home. Typical except that Cody is in almost every respect an outsider-”rich and black and different,” in the words of Belinda who finds herself attracted to a (white) former classmate. As the battle for her affections is waged, Belinda and Cody frankly question the foundation of their initial attraction, opening the door wide to a swath of bigotry, deception, and betrayal.
Staging his work on a continually shifting moral ground where nothing is sacred and the unexpected is a given, LaBute unblinkingly challenges the reader’s received notions of gender, ethnicity, and even love itself. Powerful, profane, and above all unpredictable, This Is How It Goes is a devastating exploration of the myriad ways in which the wild card of race is played by both black and white in America.
“LaBute…continues to probe the fascinating dark side of individualism…his great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not-knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying.” –The New Yorker
The Bang & The Clatter Theatre .. Sometimes in the Silence is located at 224 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH, 44114 330.606.5317(Next to House of Blues). www.bnctheatre.com
Tickets: $15. Shows are at 8 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays-Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
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