Rover Dramawerks in Plano is launching their 2007-2008 season with a production of the searing drama Two Rooms by Lee Blessing. Named the Best Play of 1988 by Time Magazine, the play is both a piercing examination of the ongoing war on global terrorism, and a deeply affecting love story.

The two rooms of the title are a windowless cubicle in Beirut where an American hostage is being held by Arab terrorists, and a room in his home in the United States which his wife has stripped of furniture so that – at least symbolically – she can share his ordeal. In fact, the same room serves for both and is also the locale for imaginary conversations between the hostage and his wife, plus the setting for the real talks which she has with a reporter and a State Department official. The former, an overly ambitious sort who hopes to develop the situation into a major personal accomplishment, tries to prod the wife into taking umbrage at what he labels government ineptitude and inaction, while the State Department representative is coolly efficient, and even dispassionate, in her attempt to treat the matter with professional detachment. It is her job to try to make the wife aware of the larger equation of which the taking of a hostage is only one element; but as the months inch by, her task becomes increasingly difficult.

What: Two Rooms by Lee Blessing, directed by Beth Hargrove

When: November 1–17, 2007. Thu, Fri, and Sat evenings at 8:00 PM, plus one matiness performance on Nov. 10 at 2:00 PM

Location: Cox Building Playhouse
1517 H Avenue, Plano, TX 75074

Admission:

  • $16.00 – Friday and Saturday evenings
  • $13.00 – Thursday evening and Saturday matinees

Student and Senior Discounts are available. Admission to the November 1 performance is Pay-What-You-Can.

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