The Rock Garden's BELOW THE BELT Bows 10/25
By: Jessica Lewis
Brooklyn theater company,The Rock Garden will play its last three performances of Below The Belt Richard Dresser's acclaimed dark comedy about the survival of the semi-fit, quasi-clever and the somewhat competent, this Friday, October 23rd through this Sunday, October 25th
at The Access Theater.
The play offers a disturbingly drastic story of three dim-witted men determined to survive their pathetic jobs on an isolated industrial compound somewhere in the middle of a vast foreign desert. Theirs is a fiefdom of calculated offshore gluttony. These men are not bright. These men are not worldly. These men are not equipped for such savage global greed. But. They are employed. So. Let the games begin. Let the back-stabbing, throat-slitting, ass-kissing, inter-office combat begin. Our heroes names are Hanrahan, Dobbitt and Merkin
and they are playing in a gladiator-like arena of blood-drenched competition. It's when they set the river on fire that the serious fireworks begin. In the middle of all the action HANRAHAN announces that a "man without a company is a corpse." It takes a profoundly energetic theatre company to mine the rich gold in that frightening announcement's hills. Enter the boys from The Rock Garden.
The remaining performances will play at Access Theater, 380 Broadway at White Street in Tribeca October 23 through October 25,. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased through www.smarttix.net or by calling 212-868-4444
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