Get Out Friday: Prayer For My Enemy @ Intiman
As if Bart Sher weren't enough artistic ordnance, Intiman is also packing Craig Lucas in its Associate Artistic Director holster. (That's Craig Lucas, author of the book for The Light in the Piazza, author of the plays Prelude to a Kiss, The Dying Gaul, and The Singing Forest, and author of the screenplays for Longtime Companion and The Secret Lives of Dentists.)
Following up on his terrific adaptation of Uncle Vanya, Intiman is staging the premiere of Lucas's Prayer for My Enemy, a play that explores what happens when two long-separated childhood friends meet again as adults. Sher says it's about "a family torn apart by alcoholism and war, interwoven with the narrative of a woman caring for her mother...a kind of topography of emotional life in America with all its intricacies, love, ambiguities and uncertainty." There's Vietnam and Iraq, alcoholism and autism. Here's the Seattle Times preview. Prayer For My Enemy opens Friday at Intiman and runs through August 26.
8pm // Intiman Theatre // tickets $10 (25 and under) to $48
Photo by Chris Bennion: James McMenamin wrestles with Daniel Zaitchik in Prayer for My Enemy.
