After their innovative and acclaimed RI premiere production of Jen Silverman’s Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties, Burbage Theatre Co concludes their 12th Season with Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat, directed by Trinity Rep company member Jackie Davis, director of last season’s Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti.
THE MOTHERF*CKER WITH THE HAT will be presented for 13 performances from May 30 through June 16 at Burbage Theatre Co’s Wendy Overly Studio Theatre.
SYNOPSIS – Struggles with addiction, friendship, love, and the challenges of adulthood are at the center of the story. Jackie, a petty drug dealer, is just out of prison and trying to stay clean. He’s also still in love with his coke-addicted childhood sweetheart, Veronica. Ralph D. is Jackie’s too-smooth, slightly slippery sponsor. He’s married to the bitter and disaffected Victoria, who, by the way, has the hots for Jackie. And then there’s Julio, Jackie’s cousin…a stand-up, “stand by me” kind of guy.
"Guirgis, a brilliant comedic talent…also has an original and knowing take on class… Guirgis’ characters are strivers who lack the language to 'pass’ in a white-collar world; they’re frustrated by limitations that they’re only half aware of, and that frustration provides much of the painful hilarity in their dialogue, which piles miscommunication on top of misunderstanding.”
— New York Times
“It’s a tight, smart and splendidly well-made, a tough-minded, unromantically romantic comedy that keeps you laughing, then sends you home thinking.”
— Wall Street Journal
“Funny indeed—not to mention surprising, disturbing and poignant…dark, rich comedy…By not putting characters or their dilemmas in neat boxes, Guirgis gives us, in HAT, a slice of hard life that’s as provocative as it is absorbing.”
— USA Today
CALENDAR OF PERFORMANCES
Thursday May 30 at 7:30pm Preview
Friday May 31 at 7:30pm Preview
Saturday June 1 at 7:30pm OPENING/Pay-What-You-Will
Sunday June 2 at 2:00pm PRESS
Friday June 7 at 7:30pm
Saturday June 8 at 2pm
Saturday June 8 at 7:30pm
Sunday June 9 at 2:00pm
Thursday June 13 at 7:30pm
Friday June 14 at 7:30pm
Saturday June 15 at 2pmpm
Saturday June 15 at 7:30pm
Sunday June 16 at 2:00pm
SUBMIT UPDATES
After their innovative and acclaimed RI premiere production of Jen Silverman's Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties, Burbage Theatre Co concludes their 12th Season with Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Motherf**ker with the Hat, directed by Trinity Rep company member Jackie Davis, director of last season's Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti.
Burbage Theatre Co is at 59 Blackstone Avenue, Pawtucket, RI.
METRONOME (4/27/24-4/28/24)
Collective Rage: a play in 5 Betties (3/28/24-4/21/24)
PLAYHOUSE CREATURES (2/1/24-2/25/24)
BLKS by Aziza Barnes (11/16/23-12/3/23)
ROMEO & JULIET (8/31/23-9/24/23)
RI Premiere of Lolita Chakrabarti's RED VELVET directed by Jackie Davis (6/1/23-6/18/23)
WITCH (3/16/23-4/9/23)
Sense & Sensibility (11/17/22-12/11/22)
Junk (8/18/22-9/11/22)
Everybody (11/11/21-12/5/21)
Videos
Newport Contemporary Ballet presents the Newport Dance Festival
Great Friends Meeting House (7/17 - 7/21) | ||
Crimes of the Heart
The Arctic Playhouse (5/16 - 6/2) | ||
THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT
Burbage Theatre Co (5/30 - 6/16) | ||
The Cemetery Club
Newport Playhouse (5/29 - 6/30) | ||
La Cage aux Folles
Trinity Repertory Company (5/30 - 6/30) | ||
Richard III
Roundabout Productions (6/14 - 6/23) | ||
TWELFTH NIGHT (OR WHAT YOU WILL)
Attleboro Community Theatre (5/31 - 6/16) | ||
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