Directed by Ryan McGee

Produced by Ryan McGee

The Premise: A performance piece, this is a composite of two,never-before performed works, Peggy Phelan's Shattered Skulls and Tony Kushner's The Second Month of Mourning. A play about intense grief, "shaped through the memory during a public display of it."

What to look for: Director McGee promises an electric experience for the audience, who should expect to be fully engaged with the actors, even as they break down "the fourth wall a lot" to "seek emotional solace from the audience." The interactive nature of the performance is enhanced by the intimacy of the Adams Pool Theater and McGee says that the very design will suggest the haunting of the theater by the "ghosts of the characters."

The Buzz: Come prepared for nothing less than a night of deep intensity and soul searching. And with Peggy Phelan having been closely collaborating with McGee, expect some fine work from the creators of this piece.

Starring: Kate Agresta, Karin Alexander, Jim Augustine and Sara Newbold

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

October 21-23

Loeb Ex

Written by Paul Zindel

Directed by Sarah Yellen

Produced by Erica Rabbit

THE PREMISE: Teenaged Tillie lives at home, where her dysfunctional sister, mother and "Nanny" drive her to escape into a scientific world of gamma rays and cloud chambers. The play has five leading female roles and gives us a candid and amusing picture of how a young girl survives this modern world of borderline insanity and paranoia.