Quitting Time at Theatre Project

QUITTING TIME

By Jack L.B. Gohn, Directed by Barry Feinstein Theatrical Mining Company

February 21 – March 2

Retirement holds no allure for Robert, a senior science professor at the center of Jack L.B. Gohn’s new play QUITTING TIME. Though Robert is aging in mind and body, and it’s been awhile since he’s been able to win a research grant, his career still gives Robert’s life meaning. But Kim, his younger department chair, believes Robert is “past it,” and she wants him gone to make room for younger researchers who can bring more of the prestige and the grants that are the department’s lifeblood. However, when she tries to force Robert out by reducing his pay and confiscating his equipment, he refuses to go quietly. In the ensuing battle, there are no prisoners taken.

Where does a society torn between the needs of the old and those of the young strike a balance? What are the prospects and the choices for those nearing the endings of their careers and their lives? This literate and witty but also incisive and at times devastating play lets no one off easily as it raises these questions, which come with no easy answers.

In QUITTING TIME, Jack Gohn, who provoked and excited Baltimore audiences in 2023 with WHAT WAS DONE, his dramatic exploration of Maryland’s troubled racial history, returns, once again under the aegis of veteran director Barry Feinstein.

Showtimes: February 21 @ 8pm February 22 @ 8pm February 23 @ 4pm (Talk back with the artists following the performance)

February 28 @ 8pm March 1 @ 8pm March 2 @ 4pm