Photo Flash: FIVE MILE LAKE at McCarter

Check out photos from McCarter's FIVE MILE LAKE, which opened last night and runs through May 31.

Jamie (Tobias Segal) enjoys a quiet life in his small Pennsylvania town, fixing up his grandfather's old lake house and pining after Mary (Kristen Bush), his troubled coworker. When his brother (Nathan Darrow) comes back to town with a new girlfriend (Mahira Kakkar), Jamie's peaceful world is thrown into disorder. What follows is a tender and heartfelt tale about regret, lost loves, and the murky depths that lie beneath still waters.
Continuing its proud tradition of introducing major new plays and writers to the American Stage,(Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Convert, and Anna in the Tropics) McCarter Theatre Center is pleased to present the East Coast Premiere by playwright Rachel Bonds, whose work contains a "sublime tone" (The New York Times) in its well-constructed mix of character, potent dialogue, and nuanced subtext.

Five Mile Lake was presented as a staged reading as part of McCarter Theatre Center's 2013 Lab Reading Series. Costa Mesa, CA's South Coast Repertory presented the world premiere in the spring of 2014 with a script lauded as "a gift for actors" by the Los Angeles Times.

In the words of director Emily Mann, "I am exceedingly proud of McCarter's reputation as a home and a hub for original work and emerging artists. Rachel's writing is exquisite. Her plays capture quiet moments and interactions that have large, life-changing implications for the characters, all of whom are vividly drawn, familiar, and lovable. Five Mile Lake is about a small town-not unlike the small towns from which both Rachel and I hail. When I read it, I immediately connected to the story, which seems, in so many ways, to capture elements of my own young adulthood."

Photo credit: T. Charles Erickson