Custom Made Theatre Stages Acidic Satire THE HOUSE OF YES

Subtitled "A Suburban Jacobean Play," MacLeod's shocking The House of Yes is most famous for being a critically acclaimed indie film starring Parker Posey. Custom Made proudly presents a new look at this modern classic. Directed by Stuart Bousel (Grey Gardens, the Musical) and featuring Caitlin Evenson, Shelley Lynn Johnson*, Elliot Lieberman, Juliana Lustenader*, and Casey Robbins. The House of Yes runs March 30 - April 29 at Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street in San Francisco.

It's November, 1983. As a hurricane batters the Washington, D.C. area, Marty Pascal brings his fiancée Lesley home to meet his family, which is not taken well by Marty's twin sister, Jackie-O. The family has been stuck in a time warp since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy twenty years earlier. Over the course of the evening, through the tumult of the incoming hurricane, the family's secrets begin to unravel, and the fragile peace of the home begins to crack, until it finally shatters. Director Stuart Bousel says, "The House of Yes has been one of my favorite shows ever since I was a teenager. It's a comedy of manners meets gothic novel, about people too déclassé for feelings and yet consumed by secret and corrosive passions that will ultimately undo them. It further explores the themes of Grey Gardens, in that it focuses on a wealthy but sequestered family with ties to American politics, but whose lives are led just beyond the edges of conventional society, in a shadowy otherworld of faded glamour and old scandals. In the grand tradition of writers like the Brontes and Shirley Jackson, MacLeod uses that setting to tell us a love story that is both sensational and devastating, because that is "the truth about sex."

Creative Staff: Anthony Aranda, Seth Boeckman, Sophia Craven, Beth Hall*, Cat Knight*, Kathleen Qui, Zoe Rosenfeld, Ryan Lee Short*

*= Member, Custom Made Theatre Company

Wendy MacLeod (Playwright) Her works include the plays Sin and Schoolgirl Figure, both of which premiered atChicago's Goodman Theatre. The House of Yes, which premiered in San Francisco at the Magic Theatre and was the theatre's second-longest running show, became an award-winning film by the same name starring Parker Posey and earned a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Other works include The Water Children, Things Being What They Are, and Juvenilia. Her critically acclaimed comedy Women in Jeopardy! premiered at Geva Theater in 2015. Her newest play Slow Food was invited to the 2015 National Playwrights Conference She has been a guest professor at Northwestern University's film and theater departments. Her prose and humor pieces appeared in Poetrymagazine, The New York Times, Salon, The Rumpus, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Washington Post, and All Things Considered.

Show Times and Tickets

Previews: March 30-April 1, 8:00 pm

Press Opening: Sunday, April 2 at 7:00 pm

Runs: March 30-April 29; Thurs-Sat 8:00 pm, Saturday matinees April 8 & 22 - 2:00pm Wed. April 12 & 26-7:30 pm

Tickets: $30-42

Learn more & buy tickets at (415) 798-CMTC (2682), http://www.custommade.org

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