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The Evildoers
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 2w, 2m
A dark and slashingly funny play that follows the shattering of four pristine American lives.
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Cast Size
2w, 2m -
Duration
90 minutes -
Target Audience
Adult
Details
Summary
David Adjmi offers a fierce and furious play about intimate human relationships. Carol and Jerry celebrate their anniversary with friends Martin and Judy. But an evening of haute cuisine and expensive wine is cut short when Martin, no longer able to repress years of frustration, lashes out at the people he loves. Soon, the facade of their pristine American lives shatters. With ferocious humor and violent turns, David Adjmi's searing drama lays bare the vast desolation that lies beneath a quiet dinner with friends.
History
The Evildoers premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2008 under the direction of Rebecca Taichman.
Cast Attributes
Keywords
- Time Period Contemporary, Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century
- Setting Carol and Jerry's apartment.
- Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
- Duration 90 minutes
- Cautions
- Intense Adult Themes
Media
"Slashingly funny...Mr. Adjmi is certainly skilled at writing dialogue that both captures and softly lampoons the fluid eloquence and showy wit that perfumes the air at Manhattan restaurants and dining rooms." - New York Times, Read More
"An anxiety attack of a play... Adjmi is clearly a writer with a distinct voice, style and ambition. In 'The Evildoers' he attempts nothing less than a reality check for the post-Baby Boom generation as it hits middle age... The playwright tears down the facade that masks veneer upon veneer with stinging detail, idiosyncratic loopiness and shocking incident." - Variety, Read More
"A culmination of the last four centuries of theater, playing with theatrical forms from Jacobean tragedy to drawing-room comedies, while adding its own very modern twists... You’ll need someone to stabilize you when you walk out of the theater shaking. But drag a friend, an enemy or a professor along for perhaps the most thought-provoking stage production you’ll encounter this year." - Yale Daily News, Read More
"The world premiere of David Adjmi's The Evildoers will open your eyes to a new level of depth perception in the study of human relationships. And you'll keep them open (maybe joined by a mouth) right to the final moment of the play. Filled with exquisite metaphor.. a great theatre piece." - Connecticut Critics' Circle, Read More
"The Evildoers has received some of the most enthusiastic reviews of the season... Adjmi is a playwright to watch--and support." - Hartford Courant, Read More
"An anxiety attack of a play... Adjmi is clearly a writer with a distinct voice, style and ambition. In 'The Evildoers' he attempts nothing less than a reality check for the post-Baby Boom generation as it hits middle age... The playwright tears down the facade that masks veneer upon veneer with stinging detail, idiosyncratic loopiness and shocking incident." - Variety, Read More
"A culmination of the last four centuries of theater, playing with theatrical forms from Jacobean tragedy to drawing-room comedies, while adding its own very modern twists... You’ll need someone to stabilize you when you walk out of the theater shaking. But drag a friend, an enemy or a professor along for perhaps the most thought-provoking stage production you’ll encounter this year." - Yale Daily News, Read More
"The world premiere of David Adjmi's The Evildoers will open your eyes to a new level of depth perception in the study of human relationships. And you'll keep them open (maybe joined by a mouth) right to the final moment of the play. Filled with exquisite metaphor.. a great theatre piece." - Connecticut Critics' Circle, Read More
"The Evildoers has received some of the most enthusiastic reviews of the season... Adjmi is a playwright to watch--and support." - Hartford Courant, Read More
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
Authors
David Adjmi
David Adjmi’s plays have been produced at theatres around the world such as Lincoln Center, RSC, Steppenwolf and Soho Rep – where he was the Mellon Foundation playwright-in-residence for three years. Stereophonic (music by Will Butler of Arcade Fire) ran on Broadway after a ...
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