Coming next to Ithaca’s Kitchen Theatre Company is A Body Of Water, a mystery about family and memory by Lee Blessing. A Body Of Water opens for previews tonight, February 18 and runs at Kitchen Theatre Company through March 8 before transferring to the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
A middle-aged man (Moss) and woman (Avis) find themselves in a beautiful summer home with a view of water on all sides. They are dressed in luxurious robes and nothing else. Sound idyllic? It would be, if only they could recall a few simple things: their names, why are they in this place and who they are to each other. Lee Blessing further complicates the story by introducing a third character (Wren) who may hold clues to the truth-but with an agenda that heightens the tension. Blessing has said that the play is about “learning to live inside of a mystery.”
Leading the production is Baltimore-based director Michele Minnick, whose production of Lungs was so extraordinary last season. Minnick travels internationally to teach, direct, perform and conduct research. This fall she co-directed Lamatown, a play with songs inspired by Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People in Natal, Brazil. Currently, she is working as movement director for The Mesmeric Revelations of Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore’s first immersive theatre experience. She is also a master teacher and developer of the Rasaboxes approach.
Source: www.broadwayworld.com
