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Get Your Tickets Now for the Final Two Performances of Collapse
Allison Moore's comedy for the Age of Anxiety is "funny, moving, smart, and sentimental"
We're down to the final two performances of Collapse, the second show of our inaugural season at the Winningstad, The audiences audiences are large and loving it! Seats are limited for our final pair of performances, so be sure to get yours now!
Here's what the critics had to see about this new and incredibly timely play that spins its comic spell from the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis:
"Rebecca Lingafelter, as a lawyer worried about her job, her husband and her fertility, practically quivers with nervous energy in an emotionally vivid performance ... Shelly Lipkin, as a Southern charmer with a sex addiction, makes comic hay with the compulsion yet shows glimpses of the anxiety beneath it ... Stephanie Gaslin puts an endearing spin on New Age airheadedness" – Marty Hughley, the Oregonian
Playwright Moore begins Collapse in a nervous tizzy and quickly balances the comic silliness with a tender emotional touch ... Two things stand out here. The first is Larry Larsen's knockout set, which turns the Winningstad Theatre into a big junkyard of collapsed concrete with cleverly sectioned playing areas. It's massive and intimate at once; a perfectly realized setting for an emotional disaster area. The second is, as usual, the fine ensemble acting under Slayden Scott Yarbrough's direction ... This is a funny, moving, smart and sentimental show ... - Bob Hicks, Oregon ArtsWatch
"Moore's ingenious refusal to play by the assumed rules lends emotional weight to what might have otherwise been a trite tearjerker and gives its performers permission to avoid the usual cliches of disaster dramas. Jim Iorio neither mopes about the stage nor throws dishes as Hannah's traumatized husband. Instead he moves constantly and anxiously, unable to rid himself of the shame and confusion of his own inability to cross a bridge or step in an elevator after falling in the Mississippi. He tries to laugh it off, but we can see the pain through his forced smile. Lingafelter plays Hannah as a frayed bundle of nerves, keeping her grip on civility with a tight hair clip. Watching her composure unravel is crushing ..." – Ben Waterhouse, Willamette Week
See what the buzz is about and why Third Rail has been anointed "the city's most consistently excellent theater company"!
Only two more performances! We must close this Sunday, January 29!
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