The Mystery Plays
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 28, 2004
Closed Jul 11, 2004
Opened Jun 28, 2004
Closed Jul 11, 2004
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's The Mystery Plays intertwines two seemingly random events - a train wreck in the Northeast and a desperate expedition to solve a crime in Oregon - sending two friends on different paths of self-discovery and human understanding.
There will be one Wednesday matinee performance at 2:00pm on July 7th. There is no performance on Monday, July 5th.
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"We're mysteries. We depend on belief without understanding." So says a character in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's The Mystery Plays. The work is made up of two loosely interconnected one-acts; the first is far superior to the second but both pieces demonstrate the playwright's quirky, Twilight Zone- and comic book-influenced writing style.
The framing device for the show is, in fact, directly derived from a pair of comic book titles published by DC Comics in the 1960s and '70s: The House of Mystery and The House of Secrets. Biblical brothers Cain and Abel were the caretakers of the two houses and served as hosts in the telling of short horror stories. In Aguirre-Sacasa's work, the two suspense[...]