Clout in the Mug presents WIRING, May 9

Clout in the Mug Productions follows up its recent critically acclaimed production of Edward Allan Baker's Dolores and North of Providence with a one-night only staged reading of Peter Coston's new play, WIRING. In WIRING, a small circle of contemporary New Yorkers pursue sexual compatibility only to have their ostensibly modern presumptions about intimacy and class seriously challenged. Love on one's own terms is what these successful 30-somethings are ultimately after, but something powerful and unusual threatens to upset the status quo. The result is a dark comedy of manners for the 21st century which ponders the essence of the human condition in a world dictated by money and status and which, ultimately, implicates our own notions of what each of us believes we can, and should, be.

The reading will take place at Shetler Studios, 244 West 54th Street, Penthouse 1, on Monday, May 9, 2001 at 8PM. Door open at 7:30 PM. There will be a reception following the reading. 

Mr. Coston's Talking History was a finalist in this year's National 10-Minute Play Competition at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. An award-winning filmmaker, he is also a Yaddo playwriting fellow and NYSCA grant recipient. He received an MFA from Columbia and his work has been presented at venues as varied as Naked Angels and the HB Playwrights Foundation.

Director Alberto Bonilla, highly acclaimed for his direction of Dolores and North of Providence, has assembled a talented cast for his one-night only reading, including Brian Cade* (As The World Turns), Nina Covelsky* (Look Back in Anger, Affair Play), John Golaszewski (North of Providence, Look Back in Anger), Nalina Mann* (Strange Things Happen at Sundown, The Karamazov Project) and William Peden*(Law & Order, Guiding Light).

* These actors appear courtesy of Actor's Equity Association.

As evidenced by its recently celebrated productions of Dolores/North of Providence and John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, Clout in the Mug has begun to establish itself as among the most dynamic young companies producing work Off-Broadway. Though suffused with biting humor and electrifying sexual undercurrents, WIRING shares with those great plays the mesmerizing emotional volatility and concern for love's most harrowing variations that has become one of Clout in the Mug's hallmarks.

Shetler Studios
244 West 54th Street
between Broadway and 8th Avenue
http://www.shetlerstudios.com