New Mexico Actors Lab presents

"The Niceties" by Eleanor Burgess

"A barnburner of a play... One of the best plays I've seen about who gets to tell the story of America and how.” -- The Washington Post

In late March of 2016 at an elite university in the American Northeast, black college junior Zoe Reed, a political science major, meets with her white history professor Janine Bosko to review a draft of a paper that Zoe has written for Janine’s class on revolutions. Running in repertory with David Mamet's "Oleanna".

The New York Times said: “The parallels to David Mamet’s controversial classic “Oleanna” are clear: A 20-year-old undergraduate meets one-on-one with a professor who fatally underestimates her. By the end of their conversation, the professor’s career is in jeopardy, the militant student bent on its destruction. But where Mr. Mamet made his student a feminist straw woman menacing a man who doesn’t much deserve it, the likable yet merciless Zoe is the one we’re meant to root for here, against a professor who is guilty as charged.”

Credits:
Playwright: Eleanor Burgess
Director: Robert Benedetti
Performed by: Karen Ryan and Baby True
Lighting Designer: Skip Rapaport

Dates and Times:
Wednesday, May 8 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 9 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Friday, May 10 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 11 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 12 from 2 - 4 p.m.

Friday, May 23 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 24 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 1 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 2 from 2 - 4 p.m.

Thursday, June 6 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Friday, June 7 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Friday, June 14 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 15 at 2 p.m.
Sunday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Admission:
Adults: $35
Preview performances - May 8 and 9: $15 (limited seating)
Students and workers in the theater and hospitality industries: $15 (except Sunday performances)

Online Tickets: http://www.nmactorslab.com/

Venue: The Lab Theater (aka Actors Lab) @ 1213-B Parkway Drive, Santa Fe, NM

Website: http://www.nmactorslab.com/

For More Information, Contact: NMAL.publicity@gmail.com or 505-395-6576 (messages returned after 4 pm.)