Photo Flash: First Look at THE ANSWER-KILLING QUESTION BUYS A CRISIS, Opening Tonight at The Producers' Club

Tim Sika presents The Answer-Killing Question Buys a Crisis, a world premiere satire on educational institutions at all levels by Barry Germansky. Cihangir Duman directs a cast of four, including Rafa Pérez, Damon Trammell, Jillian K. Waters, and Matt Tracy. Performances will be staged at The Crown Theater at The Producers' Club (358 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036) from tonight, October 3-26, 2014. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Although Western society has long promoted institutionalized education, there have been relatively few inquiries into the nature of this bureaucratic form of learning and how it forces students and teachers to maintain arbitrary standards of knowledge. The Answer-Killing Question Buys a Crisis chronicles the struggles of a courageous university student as he rebels against his school's corrupt totalitarian regime and its imposition of a single answer to all possible questions. The school reflects the singular mindset of society as a whole, and the student's professors consider his actions to be criminal. He soon realizes that fighting for his principles is only the beginning; he will soon be fighting for his life, as well. To make matters worse, his best friend and long-time co-conspirator may not be who he says he is. The play is a twenty-first century hybrid of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Dead Poets Society.

The cast features: Rafa Pérez; Damon Trammell; Jillian K. Waters and Matt Tracy.

The Answer-Killing Question Buys a Crisis is presented by Tim Sika. Set Designer: Jason Bolan; Lighting Designer: Mark Hankla;Stage Manager: Janis Costa Deedy; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR.

The Answer-Killing Question Buys a Crisis plays for 11 performances from October 3-26, 2014. Performances are Friday-Sunday at 8pm; plus, Monday, October 13 & Tuesday, October 14 at 8pm. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased by visiting BrownPaperTickets.com. The run time for The Answer-Killing Question Buys a Crisis is 100 minutes, no intermission.

Photo Credit: Sarah Thea