Edward Albee's The Zoo Story

The Heorot Pub & Draught House and Think, Dog! Productions are uniting again to offer a theatre performance beginning May 31, 2012 and running through June 9, 2012. Scheduled performances are May 31, June 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 at 7 pm. All performances will be located on the second floor at The Heorot Pub & Draught House, 219 South Walnut St., Muncie, Indiana.  The upstairs venue is all-ages.  Tickets are $7; no reservations necessary. For information contact Lysa Franklin or Barry McMullen at (765)741-0591 or email lysabarry@sbcglobal.net.

THE ZOO STORY is the first major work of American playwright, Edward Albee. First performed in Germany in 1958, this controversial play quickly made its way to New York, where it ran for nearly 600 performances and immediately established Albee as a major voice in American theatre. In the play, a man sits peacefully reading in the sunlight in Central Park. There enters a second man. He is a young, unkempt and undisciplined vagrant where the first is neat, ordered, well-to-do and conventional. The vagrant is a soul in torture and rebellion. He longs to communicate so fiercely that he frightens and repels his listener. He is a man drained of all hope who, in his passion for company, seeks to drain his companion. With provocative humor and unrelenting suspense, the young savage slowly, but relentlessly, brings his victim down to his own atavistic level as he relates a story about his visit to the zoo.

Runtime approximately one hour.

The show is directed by Lysa Franklin and features community actors Ryan Lash and Barry McMullen. The production is sponsored by Main Street Artists of Farmland, IN and is produced through licensing by Dramatists’ Play Service.