InterAct Theatre Company will usher in 2014 with the second production of their 26th season - the Philadelphia premiere of Johnna Adams' riveting Gidion's Knot. In the play, Adams confronts us with "perhaps the most complicated kind of 'knot'" (San Gabriel Valley Tribune) as a grieving mother arrives at her son's school looking for answers following his sudden death and challenges his teacher and audiences alike to seek an answer to the age old question of nature versus nurture, as well as posing many other difficult questions.
In this two-woman drama, a mother meets her son's bewildered and fragile teacher for a parent-teacher conference. As their tense, emotionally-charged meeting unfolds, reasons for the boy's death become more complex and alarming. Adams' gripping drama draws us into an intensely personal battle to understand the vivid imagination and tortured soul of one extraordinary ten year-old boy. Director and InterAct Producing Artistic Director, Seth Rozin, guides the production which is guaranteed to "confound expectations and explode clichés" (DC Theatre Scene).
"The first time I sat down to read Gidion's Knot, I was completely engrossed in the drama from the play's opening moments," says Rozin. "And on each successive read I've become even more engrossed in the play's surprising emotional and psychological twists and turns. There's nothing like watching two people in a room, locked in a high stakes confrontation. This is a play that every parent and every teacher should see. "Videos