Skylight Theater Presents 'Focus Group Play'

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FLAVORPILL - Editor's Pick  

GO! PICK OF THE WEEK - LA Weekly 

“A real-time gem…many funny things about Focus Group Play” – Don Shirley LA Stage Times

"Audiences will laugh... Drohan is a comic find Great! Great-great!" - LA TIMES

Now at the forefront of play development, with local writers, KTC presents their 11th World Premiere in only two years. Chosen from seven new works, and fresh out the Playlab program, this World Premiere production by Carrie Barrett will be directed by Eric Hunicutt at the Skylight Theatre Complex. 

Six strangers in a room for 90 minutes, encouraged to share their opinions.  What could be more unpredictable? Chaos quickly turns this control group into an out-of control dark comedy, bringing out the worst…even in the best of us. 

From a generation of new writers, on the verge of national prominence.  

“This play is a gratifying example of the work that has come out of our play development program.  It’s clear that there is a new guard of local writers that are going to have a powerful voice in today’s theatre scene, and we are proud to give them a home,” says Gary Grossman (Artistic Director-KTC)  

CARRIE BARRETT (Playwright) has developed works at The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center (National Playwrights Conference), Gotham Stage Company (NYC), Northwestern University, Chicago Dramatists, American Theatre Company (Chicago) and through Remmy Bummpo Theatre Company (Chicago). She is 2009 graduate of Northwestern’s MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage program where she studied under playwright Rebecca Gilman. 

ERIC HUNICUTT (Director) helmed Adam Bock's The Thugs, Neil LaBute's Reasons To Be Pretty (both as guest faculty, UC San Diego), Upright Citizens' Brigade (NY & LA), Second City (LA & Chicago), Comedy Central Stage, Lost Studio, iO West Theater, & Spoleto Fringe.  Eric teaches at Steppenwolf Classes West, Warner Loughlin Studios, iO West, and Cal State's Summer Arts. 

Cast includes: 

JEN DROHAN, CELIA FINKELSTEIN, ALISSA FORD, BRIAN HAMMILL, DARCY SHEAN, CARO ZELLER