The Last Supper, a grand guignol love story at Center for the Performing Arts in Rhinebeck

THE LAST SUPPER

A Grand Guignol Love Story by David Simpatico

Saturday, November 7 · 7:30 PM Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck — Main Stage $15 Fundraiser

What if your last supper really were your last supper?

As civilization collapses around them, seven wildly different survivors gather under one roof for an impossible dinner. At the center of the evening is Edgar, an elderly man who has decided to die on his own terms. A death doula has been brought in to help him make that final passage.

But Edgar’s carefully planned death dinner is interrupted by a rather larger problem:

The dead are rising.

Political zealots, believers, skeptics, lovers, old gods, new machines and zombies all demand a place at the table. Some want to eat. Some want to preach. Some want to decide who has the right to live—or die. And some just want to survive until morning.

The Last Supper is a darkly comic Grand Guignol love story about the collision between individual choice and collective survival.

Beneath the blood, absurdity and zombie mayhem is a surprisingly intimate question:

When everything falls apart, what do we owe one another?

This is a staged reading of The Last Supper in the Hudson Valley, and a $15 fundraiser to help bring the play to full production here in the region.

The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck is giving us its Main Stage for the evening, and we’re delighted to have the opportunity to present cutting-edge theater right here in the Hudson Valley.

Come see the play, support its development, and help us take the next step toward a full production.

Saturday, November 7 · 7:30 PM

Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck — Main Stage

$15 fundraiser

Presented by Round The Bend Theater, with the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck.