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Performance dates: April 8, 9, 10- 8pm Performance venue: Linesight Theatre
"subUrbia":
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subUrbia “subUrbia”
premiered at the Lincoln Center Theater in 1994. Author Eric Bogosian
developed the play in the mid-eighties in a workshop at the American Reparatory
Theatre. With these sessions consisting of student actors sitting around,
eating pizza and talking casually, they allowed Bogosian to harness an
authentic tone of dialogue. In addition, Bogosian based “subUrbia”
off of his own experience after dropping out of the University of Chicago.
In 1973, he returned to his suburban hometown of Woburn, Massachusetts
and hung out at a mini-mall with many of the local characters he had known
in high school. Many of his friends would never leave Woburn, while others,
like him, had left only to return in shame. Across the board they all
wanted to leave and grew frustrated by their status. For Bogosian the
writer, in this frustration he found potent fodder for his explosive style
of dialogue. He also saw conflict in the dynamic between his friends,
and the gaping disparity between their individual potentials; each standing
at a different point along their particular life's path, all harboring
some brand of disillusionment, all resting at a critical point of transition,
all rendezvousing briefly at a mini-mall.
See production stills from subUrbia.
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Bogosian
then adapted his script into a screenplay for acclaimed filmmaker Richard
Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Slacker, School of Rock), whose 1996 film
version featured Giovanni Ribisi, Steve Zahn, Nicky Katt, and Parker Posey.
Theatre on Consignment continued its third season with a production of
this popular mediation on disenfranchised youth.
The
play was presented on April 8-11, 2004, with