boom
by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

Name: boom
Brand: Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
SKU: 9780822223702
Rating: 3.82 (130 reviews)

Off-Broadway

Highlights

Female

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90 minsPresent DayInterior SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesComedy

Synopsis

“Sex to Change the Course of the World” – a grad student‘s online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his subterranean research lab under the pretense of an evening of “no strings attached” sex.

But when a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, their date takes on evolutionary significance and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

Will they survive?

What about the fish in the tank?

And who is that woman pulling levers and playing the timpani?

An epic and intimate comedy that spans over billions of years, boom explores the influences of fate versus randomness in the course of one's life, and life as we know it on the planet.

Press Reviews

"Mr. Nachtrieb has a gift for darkly funny dialogue and an appealing way of approaching big themes sideways. [boom] winds up speaking, quietly and piquantly, to our enduring fascination with and need for myths about the beginning of life as well as its end."
— The New York Times

"Sex! Planet-ruining cataclysms! Loads of booze! We're ready for whatever strange places boom wants to take us."
— Variety

"A dark-themed, light-toned allegory of survival and change: a piquant theatrical effort to give evolution a taste of creationism's narrative magic."
— Time Out New York

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Jo An undergraduate journalism student. Twenty-twoish, strong, skeptical, physical.	—	—	An undergraduate journalism student. Twenty-twoish, strong, skeptical, physical.
Barbara A natural history docent. Forties to fifties, buoyant, vulnerable, passionate, grand.	—	—	A natural history docent. Forties to fifties, buoyant, vulnerable, passionate, grand.
Jules A marine biology graduate student. Twenty-eightish, uncomfortable, excitable, literal.	—	—	A marine biology graduate student. Twenty-eightish, uncomfortable, excitable, literal.