Upcoming: Sick by Zayid Dohm, Capital T Theatre Company at Hyde Park Theatre, November 5 - December 5

UPDATE: Review by Javier Sanchez at the Daily Texan, November 18

UPDATE: on-line review at "Window, Rare and Strange," November 15

UPDATE: Review by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin at the Statesman's Austin360 "Seeing Things" blog, November 9

UPDATE: Review by Ryan E. Johnson at examiner.com/austin, November 20

UPDATE: Review by Bastion Carboni at austinist.com, November 21

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Sick

by Zayd Dohrn
Directed by Mark Pickell
November 5-December 5, Hyde Park Theatre

Sick is an uproarious look at a family of germ-ophobes who have severe allergies to everything from Cheez-Whiz and cleaning supplies to city air. As prisoners inside their vacuum-sealed home and garbed in non-allergic clothing, they live each day in terror that a stray mold spore or chemical will sneak into their lives. When Dad brings home one of his graduate students, the family’s fear crescendos– with chaotic comedic consequences.

“…a young Edward Albee, daring to write humor that hints at danger inside American families”
Dallas Observer

Listen to an interview with Playwright Zayd Dohrn

Read a New York Times Feature Article on Dohrn

About the Playwright Zayd Dohrn’s plays, including Sick, Magic Forest Farm, and Reborning, have been produced and developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Marin Theatre Company, Summer Play Festival, Alliance Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Southern Rep, and Kitchen Dog Theater, among others. He received Lincoln Center’s Lecomte du Nouy Prize, the Theatre Masters Visionary Playwrights Award, the Sky Cooper Prize, and the Jean Kennedy Smith Award, as well as residencies and/or commissions from Ars Nova, Dallas Theatre Center, Chautauqua, and the Royal Court Theatre of London. He earned his MFA from NYU and was a two-year Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard.

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I ♥ Walmart , Capital T Theatre at Hyde Park Theatre, August 13 - 29

UPDATE: Free on-line video streaming of sold-out final performance, August 29, 8 p.m. CDT http://qik.com/capitalt

That great big pop heart in the title sends you the message: We're gonna send Walmart a great big exploding funny valentine, 'cause it's the place we love to hate!

That fits very nicely with the demographic served by Capital T Theatre. Their Austin theatre public is generally young, generally irreverent, generally idealistic in a fuzzy Austin kind of way, and ready for a laugh. Those of us who haunt the Hyde Park Theatre probably spend more time in the bars and the music venues than at the stage, and we might prefer improv comedy or even, on an unplanned evening, late night television or the Alamo Drafthouse. Capital T's pre-show projections of mostly anti-Walmart skits from the Internet directly echoes the Alamo Drafthouse's pre-film warmups. The Capital T crowd is eager to laugh at the incongruities of this American life.

And laugh we did! Mark Sheibmeir gave us a bouncy, funny satire as an imaginary trainer for Walmart greeters, those losers at the front door, and Mason Stewart did a wonderful, grinning, assured turn in bombast as the marketing man with a new vision for the company: the holy of holies, literally, for us American consumers. Those two bits by Mark Pickell and Larry Hill respectively framed the first half and left us ready for more.

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