When a small-town Vermont creative drama class experiments with seemingly harmless “theater games,” hearts are quietly broken, and small wars of epic proportions are fought and won. A beautifully crafted comedy in which we see, with hilarious detail and clarity, the antic sadness of a motley quintet.

Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation won the 2009 Obie Award for Best New American and was voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The New York Times, Time Out New York, and The New Yorker. It was recently named one of the best plays of 2009-2010 in the latest edition of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook.