Sick

A college professor brings a student home to meet his dysfunctional family – a home so obsessed with cleanliness that the real dirt lurks around every corner and behind every sentence. Toying with post 9/11 phobias, this dark comedy plays upon our fears, both real and imagined.

*Winner, Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award

*Winner, Dallas-Forth Worth Critics Award, Best New Play, 2008

“Mr. Dohrn seems destined to become a major American playwright, and Sick is a theatrical fable at once profound and witty… Mr. Dohrn's mastery of theatrical rhetoric brings Mr. Albee to mind… his dialogue has the same tensile strength and the same ferociously quicksilver sense of humor. He can spin a yarn, too… I have the feeling people all over America are going to be talking about Sick.”

-Lawson Taitte, Dallas Morning News

“Every bit as loud, stringently funny and darkly disturbing as Albee's George and Martha mayhem… Sick is a stunning piece of theater...[Dohrn] is a young Edward Albee, daring to write humor that hints at danger inside American families.”

-Elaine Liner, Dallas Observer

“Engaging, funny, and sometimes shocking... You’ll find yourself thinking and talking about the play for days.”

-Park Cities People

“A sharp, winning satire… a post-modern blending of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with "The Glass Menagerie." The play is sharply funny throughout, exuding an irrational sense of fear that adds anxiety to the laughter.”

-Theodore P. Mahne, New Orleans Times-Picayune

World Premiere, 2008

Directed by Chris Carlos

Cast:

James Crawford

Martha Harms

Lisa Hassler

Lee Helms

Lee Trull

Set by Michael Sullivan

Costumes by Christina Dickson

Sound by Emily K. Young

Props by Judy Niven & Jen Gilson-Gilliam

New Orleans Premiere, 2009

Directed by Aimée Hayes

Cast:

Bob Edes, Jr.

Andrew Farrier

Sean Glazebrook

Jessica Lewis

Liann Pattison

Set by James Faerron

Costumes by Kelly James-Penot

Sound by Eric Shim

Lighting by Drew Yerys

Stage Manager Sarah Z. Singleton

New England Premiere, 2009

Directed by David Auburn

Cast:

Rebecca Brooksher

Lisa Emery

Michel Gill

Greg Keller

Ryan Spahn

Set by R. Michael Miller

Costumes by Wade Laboissonniere

Sound by J Hagenbuckle

Lights by Dan Kotlowitz

Stage Manager: Jess Kovell

Austin Premiere, 2009

Directed by Mark Pickell

Cast:

Tayler Gill

Joey LePage

Stephen Mercantel

Joe Reynolds

Rebecca Robinson

Photos (top left): Lee Trull and Martha Harms; (top right): Martha Harms, Lee Helms, and Lee Trull; (bottom): Lee Trull and Martha Harms in Sick at Kitchen Dog Theater.

Photo: Andrew Farrier and Liann Pattison in Sick at Southern Rep.

Photos (left): Lisa Emery; (right): Greg Keller and Rebecca Brooksher in Sick at Berkshire Theatre Festival.

Photos (top left): Rebecca Robinson and Tayler Gill; (top right): Joey LePage and Tayler Gill; (bottom) Stephen Mercantel and Joey LePage in Sick at Capital T Theatre.