Blasted

WRITTEN BY
Sarah Kane

DIRECTED BY
Ensemble Member Karen Kessler

PERFORMANCE RUN
January 19 – March 4, 2007

SEASON
Season 14

Midwest Premiere!

One of contemporary theatre’s most explosive plays will land in Chicago when A Red Orchid boldly presents the Midwest premiere of Sarah Kane’s Blasted. Taking an unflinching look at terror brought on by violence at home and abroad, Blasted brings the horrors of a vague and distant war crashing through the seemingly insular walls of a culpable yet complacent citizenry. When a comfortable hotel room is blown apart, a journalist, his girlfriend, and an intruding soldier are left to weather the primal nature of human beings in crisis. Sarah Kane is widely considered to be one of the modern theatre’s great iconoclasts, and her debut production of Blasted caused a critical firestorm at its premiere in London in 1995. Karen Kessler, director of A Red Orchid’s stellar productions of Gagarin Way and Mr. Kolpert, will ignite Kane’s poetic wit and strong imagery in a theatrical event that is not to be missed.