cover art by Elizabeth Kandel
“The ideas
and sometimes the actors ricochet around the stage with such energy and
scattershot purpose in
Adam Rapp’s BINGO WITH THE INDIANS
that they might be in a pinball machine. A dark comedy that starts with a sitcom
premise and finally invokes questions about the meaning of life, the play spins
out of control, but that forgivable chaos comes from a writer who hasn’t reined
in his overabundance of ideas.
The entire play is set in a shabby New England motel where three members of a
New York theater group have arrived with a scheme: They’ll steal the cash box
from the local church bingo (it happens to be Indian night) and use the money to
rent a performance space back home….
BINGO WITH THE INDIANS explores themes that run through other Rapp plays
(most prominently, RED LIGHT WINTER; most recently, AMERICAN SLIGO): how far
people will go to get what they want; how they face desires they barely knew
they had; how grief seeps to the surface, and pent-up rage explodes.”
Caryn James, The New York Times
first produced by The Flea Theater, New York
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