The play was featured at the 2001 Humana Festival, one of the most prestigious playwriting festivals in the country.
The play was featured at the 2001 Humana Festival, one of the most prestigious playwriting festivals in the country.
âDresser sets up an ascending sequence of increasingly bizarre and wildly hilarious scenes in which his characters try by hook or by crook to convince the others to see things their way ⦠Itâs bright and brittle, oh so nasty,â wrote The Sacramento News and Review
Richard Dresserâs plays are widely produced in New York, regional theater and Europe. His recently published trilogy of plays about happiness in America includes Augusta (working class), The Pursuit of Happiness (middle class) and A View of the Harbor (upper class). Dresserâs additional works include Rounding Third, which appeared off-Broadway after regional productions at Chicagoâs Northlight Theater and The Old Globe, and Below the Belt and Gun-Shy, both of which started in the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville before moving off-Broadway.
Dresser wrote the musical Good Vibrations and the Sundance film Human Error, plus many short plays. His most recent projects include a musical, Red Sox Nation, which opens next season at A.R.T. in Boston; Club Mojito, a pay for high school and college students; and a new play about the notorious gangster Whitey Bulger, which will premier next season.
The cast for the Stray Kats reading will include Barbara Rhoades, a veteran of stage, screen and TV who started out as a dancer in Funny Girl on Broadway and on TV shows such as The Sammy Davis Jr Show.
Ms Rhoades lives in Weston with her husband, the television producer Bernie Orenstein.
The cast will also include Sean Hannon of Weston, Ellen Stuart of Trumbull, Damian Long of Norwalk, and Joanna Keylock of Woodbridge. Actors appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association.
Each evening includes a talk-back with company, and coffee and dessert by Andreaâs Pastry Shop of Newtown.
All shows are on Saturday nights at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $25 each when purchased or reserved in advance, and $30 at the door, and are available by calling 203-514-2221 and at www.StrayKatsTheatreCompany.org. Additional information is also available from Stray Kats Artistic Director Kate Katcher, at info@straykatstheatrecompany.org.