A Marriage Unravels in Riches at the Phoenix Theatre
Phoenix Theatre Annex (414 Mason Street San Francisco, CA 94102)
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The last date listed for Riches was Saturday April 26, 2008 / 8:00pm.
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Watching these two wonderful actors together made us forget they were acting - feeling instead as if we were listening in on a personal and very intimate conversation. Wonderful work addressing a difficult topic.Written on Apr 27 2008
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David and Carolyn would seem to have it all: a generous income, two expensive cars, a son in a good college and twenty-one years of wedded bliss. Now, on their anniversary, they have returned, with another couple, to the hotel in Red Wing, Minnesota, where they spent their honeymoon. The other couple wants David and Carolyn to join them in the bar for a pre-dinner drink, but David, more in love than ever, has other ideas. To his shock and amazement, Carolyn not only turns aside his overtures, but calmly announces that she wants a divorce. Unable to comprehend or accept his wife's infuriating calmness in the face of this unexpected calamity, David baits her into a fight, and the underlying bitterness, which both of them have tried to deny, explodes into destructive, emotionally shattering fury.
Lee Blessing (playwright) has received nominations for Tony and Olivier awards, as well as for the Pulitzer Prize, for his plays. Three plays have been cited in Time magazine's list of the year's Ten Best. His plays include A Walk In The Woods, Thief River (Drama Desk nomination, Best Play), Cobb (Drama Desk award, best ensemble), Chesapeake, Eleemosynary, Fortinbras, Lake Street Extension, Two Rooms, Patient A, Going to St. Ives, The Scottish Play, A Body of Water, Riches, Black Sheep, Thief River, The Winning Streak, Independence, Oldtimers Game and Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music. Other awards: The American Theater Critics Circle Award, the L.A. Drama Critics Award, The Great American Play Award, The Humanitas Award and the George and Elisabeth Marton Award, among others.
Bahati Bonner (director) is a Bay Area native who has been performing and directing within the local theater scene for many years. Since graduating from Hampshire College with a BA in directing, Bonner has worked with Emerald Rain Productions, The Actors' Collective, The Actor's Centre, Second Wind Productions, the California Shakespeare Company, and the Berkeley Rep, Aurora Theatre Company. She also founded Princess Productions and currently works with the Aurora Theatre Company.
This production stars Andi Trindle (4.48 Psychosis; Dollhouse; Ghost in the Light) and Dan Wilson (Dollhouse; "The Invisible Forest"), each critically acclaimed in their most recent projects.
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