Bethany CANCELLED

Main Street Theater presents a Season Extra! MST presents the Regional Premiere of Bethany, a 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist. By Laura Marks. Previews: July 5, 6, and 9, 2014. Performances: July 10 – August 3.

Bethany is a darkly comic exploration of the limits of morality in desperate times. Set in an American suburb wiped out by foreclosures, the play follows Crystal, a financially-strapped single mother who discovers just how far she’ll go to be reunited with her child.

“Without stepping over the line into moralizing — or editorializing — Ms. Marks’s disturbing, incisive drama suggests that the bruising exigencies of our depressed economy are scraping away at the surface civilities of American life, making it harder for people to heed their moral compasses. Self-reliance may be a celebrated American virtue, but “Bethany” reminds us that the distance between self-preservation and pure ruthlessness can be collapsed with alarming ease.” — Charles Isherwood, New York Times

Recommended for audiences 18 and up. Children under the age of 5 are not allowed in the theater.