Speech & Debate at Rep Stage - Horowitz Center

Speech & Debate

Rep Stage - Horowitz Center
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia

A cutting-edge dark comedy from one of Off-Broadway’s hottest young playwrights that cleverly blends music, cyberspace, and dance in a story of three teenage misfits linked by a sex scandal that rocks the town of Salem, Oregon.

Thru - May 1, 2011

Wednesdays: 7:00pm

Thursdays: 7:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm & 7:00pm

Price: $17-$28

Show Type: Dark Comedy

Box Office: 443-518-1500

Running Time: 1hr, 45mins; no intermission

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...You might think a play that grapples with serious modern social issues — homophobia, teenage alienation, the limits of online privacy — would have no room for a warbling Abraham Lincoln doing an interpretive dance. But then you might not expect to encounter a piece of theater as ingenious and cannily plotted as Stephen Karam’s “Speech & Debate.” A suspenseful tale that fuses keen-eyed civic critique with riotous and even campy humor, Karam’s work is currently on view in a resonant and marvelously acted Rep Stage production, directed by Eve Muson. If you have never seen the nation’s 16th president sing about tolerance while doing disco moves in a stovepipe hat, now is your chance."

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- Celia Wren

Baltimore Sun - Recommended

"...The Rep Stage production has the benefit of a uniformly appealing, persuasive cast, directed by Eve Muson, who has the action flowing smoothly across James Fouchard’s sleek set."

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- Tim Smith

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

Speech & Debate is about silence and lies, and about the sort of secrets that adults keep from teenagers and teenagers keep from each other. Another way to say this is that it is about sex – adult sex, practiced upon teenagers in a high school wilderness where they are taught that they are still children.

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- Tim Treanor

BroadwayWorld - Somewhat Recommended

"... The cards, like much else of the plot, feel superfluous. The heart of Speech & Debate is neither speech nor debate, but three intersecting stories, performed with great courage and humor by three ordinary people who, in the telling, share something extraordinary. Their words, in Rep Stage’s fine production, demand attention."

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- Brent Englar

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Washington Post - Recommended

Baltimore Sun - Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

BroadwayWorld - Somewhat Recommended

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