Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them

Jan 11- Feb 10, 2013

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Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them tells the story of a young woman in crisis: Is her new husband, whom she married when drunk, a terrorist? Or just crazy? Or both? Is her father’s hobby of butterfly collecting really a cover for his involvement in a shadow government? Does her mother go to the theater frequently to seek mental escape, or is she just insane? Add in a minister who directs porno, and a ladylike operative whose underwear just won’t stay up, and this black comedy will make us laugh all the way to the waterboarding room.

This torturous good time could only come from Christopher Durang, the clown-prince of American absurdists

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Featuring: Jennie Brick, Jonathon Brooks, Christopher P. Kelly, Sal Mattos, Eden Neuendorf, Paul Stout*, and Teri Whipple*.

Stage Manager: Sarah Mosby
Scenic Designer: Joshua Saulpaw
Lighting Designer: Maxx Kurzunski*
Costume Designer:Amanda Lee Angott
Sound Designer: Billie Cox
*member, Custom Made Theatre Co.

Low Cost Previews: Jan 11-13 ($15-$20)
Opens: Jan 15
Runs: Jan 17-Feb 10
General Admission $30
Students, Seniors, Theatre Bay Area Members $25

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The “little man” is clapping for WHY TORTURE IS WRONG…!

Posted by on January 16, 2013 in Blog, Why Torture is Wrong | 0 comments

The “little man” is clapping for WHY TORTURE IS WRONG…!

Our first review is in, and its a big one.  The San Francisco Chronicle covered our opening night and we are thrilled to share this very positive review! Robert Hurwitt, the dean of SF critics, writes, “The comedy and theatrical invention in “Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them” are as zany and pointed as you’d expect from Christopher Durang… much of the comedy is as immediate as today’s debates about gun control, pre-emptive drone strikes and (courtesy of “Zero Dark Thirty”)...

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