The Day Room at OmniArts Nebraska

OmniArts Nebraska is continuing its seventh season of productions: VISIONS MANFEST, with the absurd and hilarious comedy, The Day Room, by novelist, Don DeLillo.
The play opens in a brightly lit hospital room occupied by two men, Budge and Wyatt. Slowly but unavoidably, their world begins to spin away from reality as they are visited by a series of fellow patients and hospital staffers, all of whom, it turns out, may not be what they seem. As the play progresses. our vision of the world is called into question. All the characters have visions of themselves that are fully formed, or so we are led to believe. Humor takes hold as reality devolves into absurdity. In the end we are left wondering, what truth there is in our vision of reality, or if reality ever existed.
The Day Room stars Jay Scott Chipman, theatre professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University, as Budge, and Wyll Andersen as Wyatt. The play also features Jean-Paul Zuhur, Erin Mundus, Anthony Delaney, Deirdre Barney, Eric Ojeda, Jackson Mikkelsen, and Jessie Porter. The production is directed by Daniel Kubert, a 2019 Mayors Arts Award recipient, with technical direction by Dustin Witte, and stage management by Noah Guern.SPECIAL PERFORMANCE NOTE: For the matinee(2:00pm) performance on May 11, 2019, the role of Budge will be played by the productions director, Daniel Kubert.Tickets are available through the Lied Center for Performing Arts Ticket Office, (402) 472-4747, or online at www.liedcenter.org.

Authors

• Don DeLillo