cul-de-sac
May 2006
May 2006
A new play by Tony nominee John Cariani (author of Off-Broadway’s Almost, Maine)
Transport Group presented the world premiere of Tony Award nominee John Cariani’s play cul-de-sac. Cariani’s dark comedy explores the bizarre secrets of three houses in one cul-de-sac on an ordinary spring evening. Each couple on this dead end street goes to extreme measures to force their dreams, revealing long-suppressed agendas that threaten their survival.
Roger and Jill Johnson come home from work and realize they have forgotten to have the baby. Christy and James Smith struggle to come to terms with the fact that Christy literally lost her baby at The Super Center (Cariani’s take on the explosion of large stores such as Walmart and Target), and Joe and Irene Jones fight over how to proceed with their lives now that they have killed their toddler twins, Harriet and Homer because they want to get back to the way it was before they had children—to get back to the “good and true.”
The cast included Transport company members: Robyn Hussa, John Wellmann, Monica Russell, James Weber, Nicole Alifante and the author himself, John Cariani.
Composer Tom Kochan wrote an original score for solo piano, played live during the run by John DiPinto.