In Rum and Vodka a young, fed-up Irishman throws his computer out the window at work, gets pegged in the eye with a can of tuna in a supermarket by his angry wife, and then embarks on a three day drinking binge featuring sexual misadventures with a wealthy art student.
Conor McPherson's Rum and Vodka, as presented by The Faux Real Theater Company, runs November 7-16, Friday-Sunday, with an additional performance on Monday, November 10. Curtain is 8pm for all shows. Tickets are $10. The Arthur Seelen Theater is located at 250 W 40th St - downstairs at the Drama Book Shop.
This one-person play is led by the inspired direction of Taibi Magar, a member of The Lincoln Center's Director's Lab who recently directed the world premiere of Torrents by Robert Atteneweiler.
Ben Brantley, who has called McPherson "quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation," described the words in McPherson's Port Authority, as "sharp, shiny hooks... they attract and snag the attention, snaring it at least until the language stops, and usually well after that. Give those words to actors who know how to cast a line, and you'll find an audience helplessly captive." Scott Lucy, a graduate of Harvard's Institute for Advanced Theater Training, who has appeared in such films as Quiz Show and Shaft, and in The Sopranos and Sex and The City, plays the Irishman.
Rum and Vodka is a funny yet poignant tale about a young man who screws up, making countless mistakes, but who hangs on to recover some sense of himself. A quintessential everyman gone rabid drinker and eventually gone amok. For more information please contact:
RumandVodkaNYC@gmail.com
Photo of Conor McPherson by Ben Strothmann
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