Out at Sea and The Party

foolsFURY continues its sixth year of provocative, physical theater with Out at Sea and The Party, two one-act plays by Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek. Directed by artistic director Ben Yalom and company member Rod Hipskind.

Out at Sea gives us three men, starving, adrift in a life raft, and one simple question: Who will volunteer himself, for the good of the group, to be eaten? From this innocent, logical proposition, Mrozek weaves a comic yet merciless vision of power and politics.

In The Party three men enter the theater, searching for a party to which they’ve been invited. They arrive to an empty space, and the haunting question: does this event exist or not? Is it a wedding? A funeral? Ultimately it becomes both a simple clown show, and a powerful rumination about man’s eternal power game – and how humans terrorize themselves and others.

Pay-what-you-can Thursday & Friday October 2 & 3 (Previews) and Thursdays throughout the run of show.