The Adobe Theater kicks off its 68th season this Friday with a play about love, following your dreams and how the things that happen after last call just might change your life. Robin Havens Parker directs an all-local cast in a performance of Sean Grennan’s Now and Then, which will run Jan. 24 through Feb. 9.
“I think the thing that really hooked me about this play was, if you had the chance to go see your younger self, would you? And what would you say?” Parker explains.
Greenan’s romantic comedy starts in a bar in the early 1980s and takes the characters on a trip back in time. The play features local actors Jessica Alden, Mary Ellin Brooks, Graydon Clarke and Joe Marshall as well as an all-local production crew. The premise: It’s closing time, and a desperate bar patron offers to pay a man and his girlfriend $2,000 to have a drink and swap some stories. What’s the worst that could happen?
“The dual perspective of Jamie and Abby looking ahead to their future and the Man and Woman contemplating the past allows us to explore the countless decisions — the small ones and the big ones — that shape the course of a life, as well as the big, inevitable question: What if I choose this path instead of that one?” Parker says. “I love that every audience member will relate to something in this play; first love, a first date, wanting to wring your partner’s neck and wondering if we have made the right decisions in all of it.”
For more information about the Adobe Theater, a schedule of this season’s productions, tickets and more visit www.adobetheater.org
Tickets are available here.
Now & Then
Jan. 24 – Feb. 9
The Adobe Theater
9813 Fourth St. NW
Tickets: $17 – $26
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.
Sundays at 2 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 8 matinee at 2:00 p.m.
Additional Thursday performances: Jan. 30, Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m.