MacLeod's Morality Play 'Sin' Runs Off-Bway July 18-29

Bohemian Archaeology will present Sin, a dark comedy by Wendy MacLeod (Juvenilia, The House Of Yes) about a moralistic traffic reporter who's forced to contend with the Seven Deadly Sins in the guise of the various people in her life.

Directed by Jordana Kritzer, the production runs July 18th-29th with an opening scheduled for June 24th at The Abingdon Theatre, 312 West 36th St. The performance schedule is Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 3.

Set in San Francisco on the eve of the 1989 earthquake, "Sin is a biting comedy about Avery Bly On High, a helicopter-flying traffic reporter who looks down on the world in more ways than one. Considering herself above life's tawdry messiness, she's more than a little judgmental about others' imperfections. Unfortunately Avery's life is filled with imperfect people, each of whom represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins: her soon-to-be ex-husband is a slothful alcoholic, her roommate is a glutton who's getting fatter by the day, her closest co-worker is consumed with envy, etc. It takes Avery's gay brother, dying from AIDS in a hospital, to make her see that Pride is the deadliest of sins. And it takes an Act of God and a chain of tragedies to finally bring Avery down from the heights once and for all," state press notes.

Sin was originally developed at Washington DC's Arena Stage and premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 1995.

Featured in the cast are: Carter Roy (Broadway's Translations, Based on a Totally True Story at Manhattan Theatre Club, VH-1 comic), Amy Broder (Off-Broadway's Tony and Tina's Wedding, Upright Citizens Brigade), Douglas Scott Sorenson (several roles at the George Street Playhouse), Henry Caplan (adobe Theatre Company), Collin Mackenzie Smith (Time Flies and Others By Ives, Actors Theatre of Louisville) as well as Christopher Armond, Kelly Miller and Megan Hill.

MacLeod's most recent play Juvenilia premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. Her play The Water Children premiered at Playwrights Horizons as a co-production with The Women's Project and was subsequently done at L.A.'s Matrix Theater where it was cited as "the most challenging political play of 1998" by the L.A. Weekly and earned six L.A. Drama Critics Circle nominations. Her play The House Of Yes became an award-winning Miramax film starring Parker Posey, earning a Special Jury Award at Sundance. The play has also been done in L.A., at Soho Rep, at The Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and at The Gate Theater in London. A New Dramatist alumna and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, she is the playwright-in-residence at her alma mater, Kenyon College. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Tickets are $18 and are available by calling Smarttix at (212) 868-4444 or logging onto their web site at www.smarttix.com.