Connecticut Repertory Theatre presents
Pocatello
By Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by Paul Mullins
Run time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Eddie manages an Italian chain restaurant in Pocatello – a small, unexceptional American city that is slowly being paved over with strip malls and franchises. But he can’t serve enough soup, salad & breadstick specials to make his hometown feel like home. Against the harsh backdrop of Samuel D. Hunter’s Idaho, this heartbreaking comedy is a cry for connection in an increasingly lonely American landscape.
“Samuel D. Hunter evokes a world in which identity itself has come to seem confusingly mass-produced... Pocatello suggests that while the brand names may have changed, the blues sung by quietly desperate middle Americans still have the same old lyrics.”
GUEST DIRECTOR: PAUL MULLINS
Paul Mullins is a theatre director based in New York City. He is an associate artist at both Santa Cruz Shakespeare and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey where he has acted and directed for thirty years. For SCS he has directed King Lear, Twelfth Night,The Agitators, Pride and Prejudice, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The 39 Steps, Hamlet, and Henry V. He has also directed plays for The Old Globe, Chautauqua Theater Company, Jewel Theatre Company, The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC., Dorset Theatre Festival, Portland Stage Company, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, American Stage, The Yale School of Drama, NYU Grad Acting and The Juilliard School.
PERFORMANCES:
Thursday, March 27, 7:30pm, preview
Friday, March 28, 8pm, opening
Saturday, March 29, 8pm
Wednesday, April 2, 7:30pm
Thursday, April 3, 7:30pm, student night; post-show talkback
Friday, April 4, 8pm
Saturday, April 5, 2pm, post-show talkback
Saturday, April 5, 8pm
Sunday, April 6, 2pm, closing; mask-required performance
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Post Performance Talkbacks: Thursday, 4/3, 7:30pm & Saturday, 4/5, 2pm
UConn Student $5 Night: Thursday 4/3, 7:30pm
Mask Required Performance: Sunday, 4/6, 2pm
FOR TICKETS and MORE INFORMATION: Visit crt.uconn.edu
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT
Enjoy dinner in Downtown Storrs before the performance. With over twenty eateries serving up cuisines from around the globe, there’s something to satisfy every taste and budget. See what’s cooking here.
Pictured: Huskies Restaurant & Bar