Boston Playwrights' Theatre to Present WINDOWMEN, 10/31-11/24

Boston Playwrights' Theatre (BPT) continues its 2013-14 season next week with Windowmen by award-winning playwright Steven Barkhimer.

Running from October 31 to November 24, this new coming-of-age comedy is directed by Brett Marks. The production features Daniel Berger-Jones, Will Lyman, Nael Nacer, Alex Pollock and BranDon Whitehead.

Playwright Barkhimer spent three years working at the legendary Lower Manhattan fish market when he was fresh out of college. The environment was "notoriously corrupt, relentlessly vulgar, and absolutely hilarious. I decided to write about that and base a play on my experiences there. All characters, of course, are fictional and not based on real people," he jokes.

Barkhimer says a common refrain amongst the characters in the play is "'I don't need to know that' - the implication being 'I know that we know it, but if we say it, it will become a completely different thing, and possibly dangerous' - and that's the tension I wanted to play on . . . I did grow up significantly there, and that's what I tried to recapture."

A post-show conversation with the playwright and members of the Windowmen company is scheduled after the 8 p.m. performance on Nov. 2.

Scenic design for Windowmen is by Anthony R. Phelps; lighting and sound designs by David Wilson; and costume design by Rachel Padula Shufelt. L. Arkansas Light is the production's stage manager.

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