THE VERTICAL HOUR (Seattle Premiere)
by David Hare
Directed by Carol Roscoe
September 10 – October 4, 2008
Wednesdays-Saturdays, 7:30pm
Sundays (Sept. 14, 21 & 28), 3pm
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From the author of last season’s local hit Stuff Happens comes an electrifying new play.

"Given the proximity of the election, the theme of David Hare's drama - struck a piercing chord with the audience."
~ Seattle Weekly *Recommended Event*

Nadia Blye is a glamorous American war correspondent-turned-academic who now teaches Political Studies at Yale. Haunted by memories of the Middle-East, she takes a brief holiday in Wales with her boyfriend to meet his father – a craggy, weathered English doctor battling personal demons from his own past. Sexual and political tensions immediately surface, sparking a dynamic, life-changing debate of ethics and power.

"Their verbal thrusts and parries are sexier than most graphic love scenes." ~ Seattle Times

Directed by Carol Roscoe (last season’s The Retreat From Moscow) this script passionately confronts the very questions that America faces approaching the 2008 elections. 

THE VERTICAL HOUR features Annie Lareau, Kevin McKeon, John Ulman, Terra Jones, and Ben McFadden.

"Well acted and thought provoking." ~ Teen Tix

- Hear Misha Berson's review of The Vertical Hour on Sound Focus (around 40 minutes in)

THE VERTICAL HOUR is made possible in part by PONCHO 

Illustration by Joey Katzer.

Photo: Annie Lareau and Kevin McKeon in The Vertical Hour. Photo by Matthew Durham.