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MONMOUTH — The Theater at Monmouth’s 2017 season continues with “Three Days of Rain,” by Richard Greenberg, which opens at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 1, and will run throughout the season, including weekday and weekend performances.
The play’s story surrounds the death of a famous architect, who has left a mysterious will, prompting his children and their best friend to search for answers about their families’ history. Darkly funny, Greenberg’s play trips through time, playing children’s perceptions against their parent’s reality, according to a news release from the theater. The collision of past and present explores the complex search for the truth about our parents and ourselves.
Each act, the first in 1995 and the second in 1960, is essentially an independent play, threading the painful journey of two friends, their wives, and their offspring within the backdrop of the bygone days of Greenwich Village. Along the way, the characters unravel the tapestry of hidden truths and devastating secrets weaving both acts together with a powerful sense of the fragility of happiness and the Faustian weight of great ambition and insufficient talent.
“The sins of the fathers (and mothers) make for bittersweet elegy in ‘Three Days of Rain,’ Richard Greenberg’s poignant, unsettling new play,” Greg Evans wrote in Variety in 1997. “As much mystery as family drama, ‘Rain’ demonstrates in heartbreaking detail how little we know about the people who most shape our lives.”
Director Kate Bergstrom recalls first encountering, the play, and said its “duality of sensation” is what first drew her to it. “The gaze over an uncrossable canyon separating two generations of a family.” Bergstrom hopes that “perhaps this play, like an accidentally discovered love letter, can invite you into all the excitement and discomfort of the intimate, delicately woven intersections between generations past, present, and future.”
The play features Travis Johnson as Ned/Walker; Meghan Leathers as Nan/Lina; Brad Wilson as Pip/Theo. Scenic art is by Katherine Keaton, costume design by Michelle Handley, lights by Daniel Taylor and sound by Rew Tippin.
For performance and schedule information on this play, as well as the rest of the theater’s calendar, call the box office at 933-9999 or visit www.theateratmonmouth.org.
