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YAAMNY Theater: The Killing Room

Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM (ET)

New York, NY

YAAMNY Theater: The Killing Room

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The Arts Comittee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan NY cordially invites you to a special performance of “The Killing Room,” a world premiere commissioned by One Year Lease of a play by Daniel Keene, one of Australia’s most popular playwrights, and a talk-back with the director and actors.

 

About The Killing Room:

This Beckett-style 80-minute dark comedy is inspired by the ancient story of Thyestes and was commissioned by One Year Lease.

Impossibly ancient, shrunken, and constantly bickering, twin brothers Cy and Ed, modern counterparts of Thyestes and Atreus, perpetuate their existence through blood transfusions and organ transplants. As young men, their greed was so insatiable and their capacity for brutality so great, they destroyed an entire civilization. They left nothing behind but the people who care for them: a doctor, a nurse, their wives.  They still control the universe, or what is left of it, until their long-dead children reappear…

Part ancient tragedy, part psychological thriller, and part absurd farce, The Killing Room explores what the human cycles of greed and violence would look like in their last iteration – at the very end of time.

 

 

When & Where



Teatro Circulo
64 East 4th Street (between 2nd Avenue and the Bowery in the East Village)
New York, NY 10003

Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM (ET)


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Yale Alumni Assoc. of NY



The Yale Alumni Assoc. of NY creates a welcoming community for all Yale alumni in the metro area through a commitment to inclusiveness, diversity, and a broad range of opportunities for engagement with Yale and each other. This is a charitable 501(c)3 organization that enables Yale alumni to share their talents, education, and leadership for the benefit of others.