The Douglas Morrisson Theatre Announces TIMES STANDS STILL Reading, 4/2

The Douglas Morrisson Theatre (DMT) has announced the second production in the 2013-2014 "Bare Bones" staged reading series: Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies, a keenly observed drama exploring the complex relationship between two couples.

The play will have one performance, Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at 8:00pm, at the Douglas Morrisson Theatre, 22311 N. Third St. in Hayward, CA. Tickets are $10 (open seating), and are available through the Box Office at (510) 881- 6777 or online at www.dmtonline.org.

Time Stands Still tells the story of Sarah, a photojournalist recuperating from injuries incurred while covering the war in Iraq, and her partner James, a foreign correspondent shell-shocked from the horrors of the war and guiltridden from having returned to the United States shortly before Sarah's accident. Sarah and James work to reestablish a bit of normalcy in their lives but find themselves moving inescapably in two different directions, finding how difficult it is to erase the past. Margulies's drama cleverly contrasts Sarah and James' relationship with that of their good friend Richard, a news magazine editor, and Mandy, his much-younger, very naïve, and slightly dopey new girlfriend.

"What I tried to do with this play," said Margulies, "is capture a sense of the way we live now, to dramatize the things that thinking, feeling, moral people are thinking about and struggle with - the issues of how to be a citizen of the world, how to show compassion, how to be involved, how to be true to yourself and your immediate loved ones." The title of the play comes from the idea that photographs capture a specific moment, that they freeze time.

Time Stands Still was commissioned and given its world premiere by the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in February 2009. The play was produced on Broadway in January 2010 by the Manhattan Theatre Club, directed by Daniel Sullivan with a cast featuring Laura Linney (Sarah), Brian d'Arcy James (James), Eric Bogosian (Richard) and Alicia Silverstone (Mandy). Christina Ricci stepped into the role of Mandy when the play reopened in New York in October of 2010. TheatreWorks presented the Bay Area regional premiere of Time Stands Still in August 2012.