A Small, Melodramatic Story
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 24, 2006
Closed Nov 5, 2006
Opened Oct 24, 2006
Closed Nov 5, 2006
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Stephen Belber's A Small, Melodramatic Story takes place in Washington D.C., where a widow named O is trying to figure out whether life is worth re-engaging with. In her path are the 1968 riots, the first Gulf War, the Freedom of Information Act and herself. There's also an archivist named Keith, a cop named Perry, and a kid named Cleo. And finally there's the question of just how much about anything do we really need to know. Lucie Tiberghien directs.
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Are some answers not worth knowing? Stephen Belber's terrific new play, A Small, Melodramatic Story, wrestles with this question. Its protagonist, O (Quincy Tyler Bernstine), thinks her husband, a former military man, died because he didn't have enough to live for -- but her friend Keith (Lee Sellars) has other ideas. He works for the National Security Archive, and it's his job to sift through declassified documents and find out all kinds of information that has been kept from the American public.
Keith's philosophy is that everything is knowable because it's human nature to document. However, while he conducts his investigation, an even greater question surfaces concerning O's new romantic[...]