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Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 2m
Annie Baker
When four lost New Englanders enrolled in Marty’s six-week-long community-center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won.
Image: 2009 Playwrights Horizons Production (Joan Marcus)
Winner! 2009 Obie Award for Best New American PlayNominee: Two 2009 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Play
When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty’s six-week-long community-center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. A beautifully crafted diorama, Circle Mirror Transformation is a petri dish revealing, with hilarious detail and clarity, the diffuse and peculiar sadnesses of a motley quintet.
Circle Mirror Transformation premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on October 13, 2009. Directed by Sam Gold, the production featured Reed Birney, Peter Friedman, Deidre O'Connell, Tracee Chimo and Heidi Schreck.
MARTY – 55JAMES – 60 SCHULTZ – 48THERESA – 35LAUREN – 16
A windowless dance studio in Shirley, Vermont. Summertime.
“Reverberates with seduction and sorrow… the play’s final scene is devastatingly gentle.” – Village Voice
“Annie Baker’s play is an absolute feast. Circle Mirror Transformation is the kind of unheralded gem that sends people into the streets babbling and bright-eyed with the desire to spread the word.” – The New York Times
“Orchestrated with a subtlety and unfailing naturalness that make the play’s small revelations disarming and unexpected. The characterizations display a miniaturist attention to detail that goes down to the bone… Baker is never blind to their weaknesses and faults, yet regards them all with a warm, empathetic eye.” – Variety
“Smartly, sneakily, Baker gives us the rare theatercentric play that’s not self-obsessed.” – BackStage
Circle Mirror Transformation – Seattle Rep Theatre Games Featurette
Gate Theatre Dublin – Human Beings will love Circle Mirror Transformation