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
Burbage Theatre Co is at 59 Blackstone Avenue, Pawtucket, RI.
THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA McBRIDE (5/15/24-6/8/24)
METRONOME (4/27/24-4/28/24)
Collective Rage: a play in 5 Betties (3/28/24-4/21/24)
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (3/20/24-4/13/24)
PLAYHOUSE CREATURES (2/1/24-2/25/24)
HANG (1/23/24-2/16/24)
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)
THE ONE-ACT PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (8/29/24-9/22/24)
AN ILIAD (11/7/24-11/24/24)
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