"Damaged environmental activists Cicada (Sarah McKereghan) and Joe (Russell Gilland) have lived underground since Inauguration Day 2001 in an act of protest against a world-destroying regime, and they remain oblivious to all that's transpired since. They're supplied at regular intervals by Cicada's sister Iris (Maia Halperin) and her new boyfriend, would-be documentarian Reece (John Andrew Stillions), and their only other contact is with a surly, semisinister psychiatrist (Mark Rachel). Suffering, meanwhile, from their environmental ailments (pesticides and Gulf War syndrome, respectively) and the psychic effects of prolonged confinement in their converted fallout shelter, the couple appears to be going slowly bonkers. (No wonder Joe's diminutive for his partner sounds like "sicky.") As Cicada's willful and mysterious dream double (Miranda Calderon) begins finally erasing the line between fantasy and reality, we sense, ominously, an impending transformation. RIPE Theater's involving and witty drama (written by cofounder McKereghan) is an inventive, eerily prescient reflection on opposition to a mad world order. Featuring an excellent cast - buoyed by Noah Kelly's playful, always intelligent direction - its almost sci-fi ambience gains cathartic intensity in the recent election's miserable aftermath, further heightening its themes of struggle and renewal."
(Robert Avila, SF Bay Guardian 11/10/04)

Named one of the best new plays of 2004 by the SF Bay Guardian

*This play is not intended for young children and contains mature themes and language.

 

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