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Comedy/Drama |
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Full-length, 85-95 minutes
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3 females, 3 males |
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Bare stage
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Adult language and content |
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| Siblings Ed and Adele inherit an enormous aviary that their late father built for his deceased wife, whose soul, he believed, had transformed into the body of a wren. The grown children are faced with the dilemma of what to do with the crumbling structure -- sister-in-law Jane wants to build tidy new houses; friend Olivia wants to build The Church of the Fifth Day honoring birds and the Fifth Day of creation; Ed wants to let the building fall to the ground. Folded into this debate are issues of religious conviction, fear of commitment, the way Russian ballet resembles a hockey game, and the courtship of Ed by Tom, a gay professional hockey player. |
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| "A rare discovery in a new play -- an intricately constructed comedy about love and grief that is incredibly funny, surprisingly touching and soaring with joyful humanity... The play's skylarking structure combined with Bock's haunting substance makes this a not-to-be-missed theatrical triumph..." |
| --AJ Esta, Back Stage |
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Winner - The Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area |
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Nominated for The American Theatre Critics Award, The Osborn Award, two Bay Area Theatre Critics awards |
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| Tony Award winner Alice Ripley in Five Flights, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York City (2004). Photo: Sandra Coudert |
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