THE KILLING ROOM Celebrates World Premiere in New York, 3/10-4/2

Introducing American audiences to one of Australia's most popular playwrights, One Year Lease Theater Company presents the world premiere of Daniel Keene's THE KILLING ROOM. This Beckett-style 80-minute dark comedy, inspired by the ancient story of Thyestes, envisions the end of the word and what violence may look like at its last gasp. The show runs March 10-April 2, 2011 at the Teatro Circulo.

When Evil retires, what does it do all day? Imagine the end of the world. Ancient, shrunken and constantly bickering, twin brothers Cy and Ed perpetuate their existence through blood transfusions and organ transplants. As young men, their greed was so insatiable and their capacity for brutality so great, they destroyed an entire civilization. They left nothing behind but the people who care for them: a doctor, a nurse, their wives. They still control the universe, or what is left of it, until their long-dead children reappear...

Cy and Ed are the darkly comic, modern counterparts of Atreus and Thyestes, two brothers who fought each other tooth and nail for the throne of Olympia. In the original story, their acts of treachery escalate, creating a mind-boggling and unending cycle of betrayal. In one infamous moment, Atreus kills Thyestes' sons and serves them to Thyestes for dinner.

THE KILLING ROOM features David Deblinger, co-founder of LAByrinth Theater Company. Also in the cast are Danny Bernardy, Sarah-Jane Casey, Babis Gousias, Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris, Danielle Heaton, Richard Saudek, Christopher Baker.

Daniel Keene's post-apocalyptic dark comedy, THE KILLINGS ROOM, opens March 10 and runs through April 2, 2011 (Wed-Sat at 8pm and Sun at 3pm) at Teatro Circulo, located at 64 East 4th Street. Critics are welcome as of Saturday, March 12. Tickets are $25. For tickets, call 866.811.4111
or visit www.theatermania.com.