When 14-year old Nick comes across a naively worded ad from 16-year-old Adam reading "I want to fall in love," he's blown away. What is this love? Already bored with cyber sex and posting fake online ads, Nick invents the girl of Adams’s dreams, Rachel, and Adam and Rachel fall hard. But as the cyber relationship heightens, so do the emotional stakes in the real world, until the two collide with devastating consequences.
Nick’s seemingly outrageous deceptions are closely based on true events which took place in Manchester, England, where, for the first time in British history, a person was convicted for inciting their own murder.
dark play or stories for boys stars Emerson BFA student Erez Rose as Nick, together with Emerson BFA student Christine Busler as Rachel, and recent Emerson alum Mark Vashro as Adam. Emerson alum Apollinaire Artistic Director Danielle Fauteux Jacques directs. Erez comes to Boston from the Performing Arts High School (Fame School) in New York where he also performed Off-Off-Broadway and in national commercials. Brian Quint (Eurydice, New Rep) and Lorna Nogueira (The Thugs, Apollinaire) complete the cast, each playing multiple roles.
dark play or stories for boys received its world premiere at the 31st Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville in March 2007.
Performances of dark play or stories for boys by Carlos Murillo are February 20-March 22,
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00, with Sunday matinees at 3:00 on March 15 and 22.
Performances are at the Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea.
Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door. Student rush tickets are $15 and are available one hour before each performance.
Tickets can be purchased by calling (617) 887-2336 or on-line at www.apollinairetheatre.com.
Information and directions at www.apollinairetheatre.com.
Recommended for mature audiences.
Performances will be followed by a Reception with the actors in the Gallery.
February 20-March 22, Fri. & Sat. at 8:00, Sunday matinees at 3:00 on March 15 & 22.
Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea.
$18 in advance, $20 at the door. Student rush tickets are $15
(617) 887-2336 • www.apollinairetheatre.com
Apollinaire Theatre Company (formerly TheatreZone) stages passionate plays at their elegantly restored theater in the Chelsea Theatre Works, as well as New England's only bilingual free summer theater in the park. Apollinaire's artists prize the energy of collaboration, and offer our audiences direct and intimate encounters with works of modern and contemporary theatre. Less than five miles from downtown Boston, our historic building is at the center of the burgeoning Chelsea arts community. Recent productions include Rhinoceros/Rinoceronte by Eugene Ionesco, Chelsea Girl, The House of Yes by Wendy MacLeod, and The Thugs by Adam Bock.