SEASON
RECKLESS by Craig Lucas
Directed by Jessika Malone
Starring Brooke Bryant, Andrea Ridge, David McGinnis, Ross Bolen, Evan Williams, Dave Shetler and Kathryn Crisp.
Show dates: July 23-25 and July 29-Aug 1 at Belmont's Black Box Theater
All shows are at 7:30 p.m. except Sundays which are at 4:30 p.m.
Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her, and she must flee for her life—which she does by scrambling out the kitchen window and into the snowy night. She meets and joins up with Lloyd Bophtelophti, a true "original" who has changed his name to avoid alimony payments and who now lives with a paraplegic named Pootie (who also pretends to be deaf in order to get double disability). Rachel then wins $100,000 on a TV game show and begins a series of picaresque escapades involving numerous psychiatrists and, eventually, an ill-fated reunion with her husband. In the end, Rachel becomes a therapist herself, treating her own child (who fails to recognize her) and is led more and more to ponder whether the modern world might not be a vast conspiracy designed to systematically undermine her own increasingly shaky sanity.
