The Rock Garden's BELOW THE BELT Bows 10/25

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.

Employing an intensive one-year rehearsal period, the company has re-thought, re-imagined, re-worked, re-interpreted, re-staged, re-choreographed and re-envisioned the acclaimed comedy which was originally produced on March 14th, 1995 at The Actors Theatre of Louisville as part of the Humana Festival of New American Plays. It was immediately transferred to New York where it opened off-Broadway at the John Houseman Theatre.

Ahead of its time, the play is a timeless indictment of the quiet desperation that grows wild within the American Industry's Byzantine system of power and the corrupt desperados that maintain it.
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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