TWO ROOMS to Play Brooklyn Apartment, 6/6

Two Rooms offers theatregoers a uniquely immersive experience: it is a play that takes place primarily in a room in a home, and it's being performed in an actual home. To be precise, it's taking place in director Patrick Vassel's home on Friday June 5th, and Saturday, June 6th. Vassel, most recently of the Public's production of Hamilton (associate director), works alongside Broadway and off­Broadway rising stars such as Matthew Goodrich (of Broadway's The Nance and Picnic), Damon Owila, (I Call My Brothers with New Ohio Theater and Nothing Left to Burn with Ars Nova/The Public Theater), Lynette Freeman (In Flight with Turn To Flesh Productions, Clybourne Park with Dorset Theatre/Barrington Stage/New Century), and Denielle Gray (A Band of Angels with New York City Children's Theatre). This production offers its audience close proximity to the actors, in the exact setting the playwright intends.

Lee Blessing's play is a political drama which keenly navigates both physical and psychological space. The play explores what it means to be an American on foreign soil, the impact of American foreign policy, and we react in situations far beyond our control. Two Rooms takes place in two rooms: a dark room in Beirut, and an empty room in a home outside Washington DC.

The plot centers around an American teacher, Michael, held hostage following his capture in Lebanon, and his wife Lainie, holding vigil for him in America. Lainie struggles not only with her husband's situation, but with pressure from a journalist intent on telling his story and a State Department official just as intent on keeping her quiet. When the story ultimately explodes in the media, she must come to terms with her grief in a public setting, and as events in the Middle East spin out of control, all of the characters must do their best to manage the situation and bring Michael home.

Tickets for the June 5th and 6th performances are $15, available here: http://tworoomsbrooklyn.bpt.me/.

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