Playreaders ask what’s real
August 29, 2008 San Miguel de Allende

Playreaders Theater
A Body of Water
Wed & Thu, Sep 3 & 4, 7pm
St. Paul’s Church
Cardo 6
Donation 20 pesos

Moss and Avis, an attractive older couple, wake up one morning in an isolated summer house high above a picturesque body of water. The weather’s fine; the view is magnificent. There’s only one problem—neither of them can remember who they are. When a young woman named Wren arrives, information starts to flood in. But will it help? Her explanations only seem to make Moss and Avis’s world—as well as ours—more frightening.

Playreaders presents Lee Blessing’s A Body of Water, which Variety called “a play rich in ideas about memory, identity and fiction,” while the Los Angeles Times said it “gets the audience talking…raises questions about what is true and who to believe…intriguing stuff.” Still another critic called it a “satisfying 95 minutes of existential hide-and-seek.”

Rudy Hornish reads the role of Moss, Nancy Kandal plays Avis and Clara Dunham is Wren. Dic Simandl handles lights and sound, and Lola Smith directs. The play starts at 7:30pm, or earlier if the house is full.

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