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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 17, 2002
Closed Dec 8, 2002
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Temporary Help is set on a Midwestern cattle ranch as rancher's wife (Margaret Colin) and her villainous husband (Robert Cuccioli) are turned upside down by the arrival of a handsome and mysterious drifter (Chad Allen.) A treacherous love triangle unfolds as man and his wife compete for the loyalty of the hired hand in carrying out their separate, sinister plans.

Opening night on Sunday, November 17 has an early curtain at 6:00pm.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Women's Project Theatre
424 W 55th St
New York, NY 10019

Women's Project & Productions is the nation's preeminent theater company dedicated to producing and developing new plays by women. Founded in 1978 by Artistic Director Julia Miles as a project of the American Place Theatre, the Women's Project incorp [...] Read More

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Were Temporary Help a movie, which playwright David Wiltse probably hopes it will be eventually, it could be the kind of tingly genre exercise that attracts the same cult following as something like The Last Seduction or Red Rock West. Had it appeared 50 or 60 years ago, it would have had tremendous appeal in that it avails itself of the James M. Cain formula that was so much a part of the earlier film noir years. It's a sordid tale, like The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity before it, in which a good-looking stranger arrives at a deceptively serene household where the wife harbors reasons for wanting someone to assist in disposing of her husband. But since Temporary Help h[...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Nov 18, 2002

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