An unsolved murder is tied to a recently institutionalized professional painter who is already embroiled in a frustrating battle with his personal demons.
Slippage by Bob Brennan follows the story of Henry Carter, a recently institutionalized professional painter who has been framed for the murder of one of his clients. He lives under the watchful eye of the psychiatric doctor Trevor Branford, who is no stranger to his own controversies from his outdated treatments and methods. It is only Henry’s wife and artistic muse, Rebecca, who remains loyal and hopeful that he will snap back into the person he once was, but she too is growing increasingly distant thanks to his direct cruelty and dogmatic outbursts regarding life and art. A play that features a trio of actors who explore the whiplash of anxiety, struggles with authenticity, the powers of beauty, frailty, and abuse, as well as searching for one’s “true” self.
An unsolved murder is tied to a recently institutionalized professional painter who is already embroiled in a frustrating battle with his personal demons.
Slippage by Bob Brennan follows the story of Henry Carter, a recently institutionalized professional painter who has been framed for the murder of one of his clients. He lives under the watchful eye of the psychiatric doctor Trevor Branford, who is no stranger to his own controversies from his outdated treatments and methods. It is only Henry’s wife and artistic muse, Rebecca, who remains loyal and hopeful that he will snap back into the person he once was, but she too is growing increasingly distant thanks to his direct cruelty and dogmatic outbursts regarding life and art. A play that features a trio of actors who explore the whiplash of anxiety, struggles with authenticity, the powers of beauty, frailty, and abuse, as well as searching for one’s “true” self.
Duration
1 hour 40 minutes with NO intermission
SUITABLE AGE
14+
Tickets are $20 each or 2 for $30. This $10 discount applies at checkout!
The Calderwood Pavilion contains the Wimberly Theatre, the Roberts Studio Theatre, the Carol G. Deane Hall, and the Nicholas Martin Hall. You should navigate to the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA if you are seeing a show in any of those aforementioned spaces.
