The Pit Announces Full Theatrical Run of ROOM 4
The Academy Awards has a race problem. It's big. But the four black actors in Room 4 aren't particularly concerned with that, because they have a much bigger problem at hand. They've just realized they're stuck in a time loop, auditioning for the same "Drug Dealer #2" role over and over. What once felt like a messed- up metaphor has become a literal existential nightmare. Get them out of there.
Marina & Nicco's new play, Room 4, is like "Waiting for Godot" meets "A Chorus Line" meets "Groundhog's Day" meets "the real-life experience of virtually every black actor in America." It's funny, but a little angry, but mostly funny.
Marina and Nicco are TV/screen-writers and comedic playwrights based in New York. As the duo "Marina & Nicco" their work has been featured in The New Yorker's "Shorts and Murmurs," on Comedy Central, and Funny or Die. They recently wrote for Morgan Spurlock's "Call Bullshit," and were finalists in the LA Film Festival "Make Em LAFF" competition -- in addition to their regular live shows at major comedy theaters in New York. They co-wrote the feature film "Delusions of Guinevere," which was called "a surprisingly dark satire of modern celebrity" by The Village Voice and "sly and smart" by The New York Times. They have also written several pilots, a radio play series ("MURDER!"), and a number of original plays. They just finished a six-month playwriting residency at The PIT, and are currently developing an original web series for IFC. Of the six plays produced from their six-month residency, Room 4 was a uniquely powerful show, ending with a standing ovation by a sold-out audience. Over the past few months, the themes Room 4 tackles have proven themselves to be more pertinent than ever. It was only natural to extend the initial production into a full theatrical run, with a revised and extended script.
For more information, please visit: http://www.thepit-nyc.com/room4
Performances are:
Tuesday, September 6th - 8pm
Friday, September 9th - 9:30pm
Sunday, September 11th - 7pm
Friday, September 16th - 8pm
Sunday, September 18th - 7pm
Thursday, September 22nd - 8:00pm
Friday, September 30th - 8pm
Sunday, October 2nd - 5pm
Friday, October 7th - 7pm
All at The PIT (123 East 24th Street, by Lexington Avenue)
Below, some of the cast members talk about their audition experiences as black actors:
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