Photo Flash: Speakeasy Stage Presents RECKLESS

Hailed by The New York Times as "a bittersweet Christmas fable for our times," RECKLESS is a darkly comic tale about a modern day AlIce Trying to find her way in a perilous winter wonderland. The plot follows a young woman named Rachel who, when suddenly forced to flee her home on Christmas Eve, embarks on a series of outrageous adventures that test her belief that it is indeed a wonderful life.

RECKLESS is just one of many acclaimed works by the prolific Craig Lucas, whose plays include Missing Persons, Blue Window, God's Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, This Thing of Darkness (with David Schulner), Small Tragedy, Prayer For My Enemy and The Singing Forest. His screenplays include Longtime Companion, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless and The Dying Gaul, the last of which he also directed. Lucas also wrote the book for the musical The Light in the Piazza. He is the Associate Artistic Director for the Intiman Theatre in Seattle.
2009 Norton Award-winner Marianna Bassham (Blackbird) will play Rachel in the SpeakEasy production, which will also feature popular Boston actors Barlow Adamson, Larry Coen, Kerry A. Dowling, Sandra Heffley, Will McGarrahan, Karl Baker Olson and Paula Plum.

Scott Edmiston will helm the project, his sixth for SpeakEasy. Mr. Edmiston's other SpeakEasy credits include Lucas's The Light in the Piazza, which received the 2008 IRNE Award for Best Musical; The History Boys, honored with two 2009 Elliot Norton Awards including Outstanding Director; Five by Tenn, lauded with five 2006 Elliot Norton Awards including Outstanding Director and Outstanding Production; and The Women, which received five 2007 IRNE Awards including Best Director and Best Production.

RECKLESS will be performed in the Roberts Studio Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street in Boston's historic South End.

Ticket prices run from $30-$50 with discounts for students and seniors. For tickets or more information, the public is invited to call 617-933-8600 or visit www.SpeakEasyStage.com.

Photo credit: Mark L. Saperstein.