boom is a play by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb which premiered in 2008 at Ars Nova Theater in New York, New York. The Theatre Communications Group (TCG) counted boom as the most-produced play in the US during the 2009-2010 theatre season.[1]
Jules, a grad student in marine biology, and Jo, a journalism student, meet one Saturday night in Jules’s small underground laboratory on a university campus, after Jo answers Jules’s online personal ad offering an encounter that promises “sex to change the course of the world.” During his research on a deserted tropical island, Jules discovered patterns among the behavior of fish that seemed to portend a premature end to most forms of earthly life. So he has turned his tiny lab/apartment into a place to wait out the disaster and begin remaking humanity. A third character, Barbara, is the audience's guide in her portrayal of the end of civilization thousands of years earlier. [2]
Production historyedit
Developmental reading, part of The Playwrights Foundation In the Rough series, May 2007, directed by Kent Nicholson.
Workshop production at Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, July 2007, directed by Ken Prestininzi.
World Premiere at Ars Nova, New York City, March 2008, directed by Alex Timbers.
Theater scholar Jordan Schildcrout analyzes boom as an "apocalyptic comedy" that "wrestles with dominant ideologies about sex, reproduction, and the future."[4] In examining reviews of different productions of the play, he notes:
Most theatre critics reviewed boom enthusiastically, admiring its synthesis of farcical humor and apocalyptic themes. Many noted the “edgy” and sexy energy of the comedy, praising it as “screwball,” “oddball,” and “wacked-out,” but had difficulty articulating the play’s more thoughtful underpinnings.[5][6][7] Ben Brantley of the New York Times astutely recognized the play’s concern with “our enduring fascination with and need for myths about the beginning of life as well as its end,”[8] while Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune dismissed the play because he didn’t find it “credible.”[9]
Referencesedit
^. Theatre Communications Group. Archived from the original on 19 August 2006. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
^Brantley, Ben (21 March 2008). "Meeting Cute on the Eve of Destruction". The New York Times.
^Schildcrout, Jordan. "Refusing the Reproductive Imperative: Sex, Death, and the Queer Future in Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's boom". Journdal of American Drama and Theatre. p. Vol. 27 No. 1. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
^Pressley, Nelson (12 November 2008). "The Elements Unite to Create Woolly's Boom; Production Crackles with Quirky Writing, Earnest Characters". Washington Post. p. C4.
^Osborne, Bert (23 September 2009). "When A Blind Date Predictably Goes Boom: Comedy About Two Outcasts a Change for Aurora Theatre". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. D1.
^Lengel, Kerry (1 November 2009). "Offbeat Boom Delivers Apocalyptic Belly Laughs". Arizona Republic. p. AE4.
^Brantley, Ben (21 March 2008). "Meeting Cute on the Eve of Destruction". New York Times. p. E3.
^Jones, Chris (16 September 2009). "Not With a Bang at Next Theatre, but a Muddle". Chicago Tribune. p. 3.3.
March 17, 2024
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