You’re searching the Web, when suddenly you stop and read this: “Looking for someone to die with. I’ve been alone in life, maybe I can at least be with someone in death.”
Now, normally if you heard that, alarms would probably go off, eliciting understandable concern for the mental and physical wellbeing of its originator. In this case, though, replace your fear with intrigue. This is a line from the dark new comedy “Suicide(s) in Vegas,” which will have its world premiere in Seoul April 28 through May 1.
This original one-act, written by award-winning playwright Evan Placey, follows the journey of two very different women who, through a random Internet search, decide to meet in Sin City to commit dual suicide.
Lydia, a Canadian nobody turned worldwide self-help sensation, has achieved astronomical fame and fortune through a labyrinth of lies and embellishments. What starts out as a desperate attempt to keep her cosmetically-altered therapist from glazing over with boredom during her sessions, turns into an outrageously hazardous life that is about to unravel.
Jane, painfully plain, has been continually discounted and devalued as a tollbooth operator in Ohio. She spends her days obsessing over a man who pulls through her toll lane each morning, a man she’s never even spoken to. At night she sits in front of the television, watching Wife Swap, dreaming of a life with this man whose name she doesn’t know, thinking up names for the children they’ll never have together. When both of their lives have become unbearable, they pack the last bags they’ll ever pack and head to Las Vegas to meet the one person who will see them for who they really are. But surviving, and dying, are tricky in that fantastic awfulness that is Vegas.
MW Productions, a Seoul production company founded by director Margaret Whittum in 2008, will produce “Suicide(s).” This marks MW’s second Seoul production, after a successful run of “The Eight: Reindeer Monologues” in December 2008. Whittum commissioned Placey to create “Suicide(s)” to tour on the 2011 Canada Fringe Festival circuit, from Montreal to Vancouver. Proceeds from the Seoul run will go towards the Canadian tour. “This is a project of epic proportions,” Whittum said. “A Canadian playwright in the U.K., a rehearsal process in Seoul with an American actor and a South African actor, and a four-month tour through Canada. I just feel blessed to work with such dedicated, talented people.”
Evan Placey is a multi-award winning Canadian playwright who is currently on attachment with the Royal National Theatre and is under commission with Synergy Theatre Company to write a play which will tour London schools and prisons in autumn 2011. This will be Placey’s second play to debut here in Seoul. “Dinner on the 14th Floor” was performed at the Orange Tree Theater in December 2007, also directed by Whittum.
By A. Gotlib
Venue: White Box Theatre, Hyochang Park Hyochang Stn. Exit 2
Dates: April 28 – May 1
Times
Thursday: 9 p.m.
Friday: 9 p.m.
Saturday: 6 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Sunday: 4 p.m.
Tickets:15,000 won
Booking: probationarytheatre@gmail.com
Website: http://www.probationarytheatre.com/
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