Flat Earth Theatre Presents Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner’s A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY

From the artistic team behind its Elliot Norton Award–winning Spring 2017 production of Silent Sky, Flat Earth Theatre presents Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner’s lyrical, timely A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY, a theatrical fable about justice, resistance, and complicity set against the historical backdrop of 1930’s Germany. A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY will run September 30th – October 14th, 2017 at the Mosesian Center for the Arts (formerly known as the Arsenal Center for the Arts), 321 Arsenal Street in Watertown, MA. Tickets can be purchased at web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/978227 for $25, or $12.50 for students.

Berlin, 1932. A group of bohemian friends struggle to respond as Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power. Watching their world unravel around them from the uncertain safety of Agnes Eggling’s apartment, these artists, activists, and idealists grapple with the responsibility of making moral choices in a time of vanishing options. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “unabashedly political, thought-provoking, and a little scary,” A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award–winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) reverberates across time, from Germany’s Weimar Republic to contemporary America, posing timely questions about citizenship, resistance, and complicity.

“A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY speaks to the experience of watching the world we think we know change in front of our very eyes,” says director Dori A. Robinson. “We argue about politics, holding onto facts as dearly as possible, banking on common sense and reason. But the play resists passivity; we are actively urged to think critically rather than dwell in any one moment, and ultimately act.” Now, as the arts, the country, and the world stand at the brink, A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY demands to be performed.

A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY launches Flat Earth’s 2017–18 season, “Dissent.” Featuring A Bright Room Called Day by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America); Antigone, Jean Anouilh’s adaptation of the mythic tale of one woman’s persistent defiance of a tyrant’s decree; and The Nether, emerging powerhouse Jennifer Haley’s electrifying examination of morality and reality in a technophilic society, Flat Earth’s 12th season poses the question, where does moral responsibility end and where does it begin?