 
 
Danger and hilarity make strange and wonderful bedfellows. Just ask playwright Edward Albee, who boldly declares:
“The arts are beautiful, they’re instructive, and they’d better be dangerous.” immediate theatre project, fresh from their success with Tennessee Williams’
The Glass Menagerie at North Carolina Stage Company (Catalyst Series),
brings Albee’s The American Dream, a rarely performed comedic gem, to the Asheville stage. The play is
filled to bursting with a particularly volatile combination of danger and humor, as the comforts and assumptions of modern
American life are turned inside out by the very dreams, fears and shortcomings that help define us all as Americans.
The elusive and compelling concept of the American Dream, the play suggests, just might be both our saving grace and our
too-proud downfall. But if we can keep laughing at ourselves, change and hope are both powerful possibilities.
"...90
minutes of intense reward...Director Jess Wells – along with producer
Willie Repoley – rounded up the right folks and then molded them into
one of the finest casts anyone could want. Yet another evidence that Asheville's
theater world has come of age."
- Jim Cavener, Asheville Citizen-Times
"I
commend Mr. Wells for his excellent choices in casting and for keeping the
whole in balance. Together, they, not only entertain us, but give us an evening
to think about."
- Genève Bacon, Mountain Area Information Network
"Staged
with a cast of seasoned actors... this immediate theatre project
production has the chops needed to pull off Albee's subtle brand humor. It's
not funny because people are slipping on banana peels, but it does possess
that sort of cruel wit – laughing at the expense of others."
- Alli Marshall, Mountain Xpress
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