AET Announces David Mamet's Bobby Gould in Hell

Mar 23, 2012
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop

American Ensemble Theater announces its next full production: Bobby Gould in Hell by David Mamet, opening Thursday, May 24 at 8:00 p.m. at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003. The production will run from May 24 to June 9, 2012 on Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. All tickets are $10. Tickets can be purchased online at AmericanEnsemble.org or by phone at 1-800-838-3006.

David Mamet's Bobby Gould in Hell is a fast-talking comic duel of wits. What is hell, and will Bobby spend eternity in it? Bobby Gould, its protagonist, is a recurring Everyman figure in Mamet's work, having appeared in the 1983 one-act, The Disappearance of the Jews, and in Speed-the-Plow of 1988. Bobby Gould in Hell begins as an interrogator enters, determined to get Gould to confess his sins. Gould struggles to argue his case. And a woman Bobby has wronged appears and turns up the heat. This relatively little-known Mamet comedy first appeared at Lincoln Center in 1989.

On the same bill, as a curtain raiser, is a new short play, Navigating Turbulence by AET playwright-in-residence Zachary Fernebok. Navigating Turbulence finds Charles Lindbergh in hell struggling to get a confession from the man who died in the electric chair claiming innocence to the "crime of the century" - the kidnapping and loss of Lindbergh's son.

The AET production of Bobby Gould in Hell is directed by Tom Prewitt. Cast: Liz Dutton, Anthony van Eyck, Mikael Johnson, and Slice Hicks. Navigating Turbulence is directed by Krista Cowan. Cast: Matt Sparacino.