Filloux's 'Killing the Boss' Dark Comedy Premieres Feb.6

By: Jan. 08, 2008
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TheaProductions presents Catherine Filloux's Killing the Boss - a new dark comedy about an altruistic woman's unexpected transformation into a vigilante -- with previews beginning February 6, prior to an official press opening February 12 at The Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Jean Randich directs.

"A thought-provoking comedy with tragic twists, Killing the Boss follows Eve - a typically peaceful American playwright with a grant to work in a nuthouse of a country - as she plots to assassinate the country's head of state a.k.a. The Boss out of fury, frustration and addiction to her fight against social injustice," explain press notes.

Featuring Sue Cremin (Intimate Apparel at South Coast Repertory) as Eve and Drama Desk-nominee Orville Mendoza (Adrift in Macao and NAATCO's recent Blind Mouth Singing) as The Boss, the ensemble of Killing the Boss also includes Alexis Camins (Blind Mouth Singing), Edward Hajj (Omnium Gatherum), Mercedes Herrero (The Laramie Project), Dale Soules (Grey Gardens), and John Daggett (Lemkin's House).

The production has set design by Sandra Goldmark, lighting design by Matthew E. Adelson, costume design by Camille Assaf, sound design by Jane Shaw, and fight choreography/movement by Felix Ivanov.

A strong advocate for social justice, Catherine Filloux (Lemkin's House) has been writing plays about human rights and genocide in Cambodia for the past twenty years. She taught playwriting in Cambodia and used that experience as inspiration for her farcical new play Killing the Boss.

Performances of Killing the Boss run February 6-23 at The Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street, near 7th Avenue, between Bedford and Barrow Streets) Tuesdays-Saturdays at 7pm, with matinees Saturdays at 1pm. Tickets are $18. For reservations, call 212-239-6200 or visit www.Telecharge.com.


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