ABOUT THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING)

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He's just like you, except worse. He is trying to save his life, to save your life—in that order. In his quest for salvation, he'll stop at nothing, be distracted by nothing, except maybe a piece of lint, or the woman in the second row.

“Astonishing in its impact…It's one of those treasured nights in the theatre —treasured nights anywhere, for that matter—that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears. Also in stitches, here and there. Mr. Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the John Stewart generation…To sum up the more or less indescribable: THOM PAIN is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life's worth…a small masterpiece.”

- New York Times

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

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Rhode Island Premiere

THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING)

[Finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize]

by Will Eno 

directed by Vince Petronio

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CAST

Thom Pain, Jeff Church*

PRODUCTION CREW

Stage Management, Morgan Clark

Set Design, Andrew Iacovelli

Lighting Design/Props Design, Jessica Winward

Costume Coordination, Morgan Clark/Liz Hallenbeck

Production Assistant, Liz Hallenbeck

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*denotes a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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