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THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE by Mark Schultz

Brian and Stacey want a better life, the life they deserve. But what they're willing to do to get it will destroy their family, rip them apart...and finally get them into the Club.

directed by Evan Cabnet
with Bobby Cannavale, Jason Butler Harner,
      Jackie Hoffman
, Sarah Paulson and Ben Rappaport

set John McDermott, lights Ben Stanton
costumes Jessica Wegener, sound Zane Birdwell
video/projections Richard DiBella

April 11 - May 10, 2009
Tuesday - Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5pm
Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre

 

 

 

"A dark, comic parable about our self-seeking, commodified age....sublime."
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NYTIMES - Charles Isherwood

"Point-blank social satire: a nasty, punitive modern comeuppance tale about pleasure and ethical responsibility...enjoy its folds, and scoop up the tart filling."
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TIME OUT

"The cast, design and direction are all top-flight!"
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VARIETY

"Schultz takes us down a pretty twisty -- and twisted -- path... with this ace trio (Cannavale, Harner, Paulson) inflicting deep cuts!"
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NY POST

"A comedy of horror... that leaps from jolt to jolt, climaxing in a scene so devastating it even shut up the guffawing audience males who thought everything was just too funny for words!"
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BACKSTAGE

"Schultz's script packs danger into the comedy, providing the updated gloss on Albee that even Albee himself has been unable to pull off in recent works..."
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THEATERMANIA