Quarterlife ()

When selecting the plays for the 2006 season, SUS knew they wanted to try something a little different and get back to some grass roots storytelling on a more intimate scale with a renewed focus on producing world premier plays.  Quarterlife by Sam Forman, a New York playwright and fellow Northwestern graduate with SUS directors TJ Moore and Sam Roberts, was the selection for the spring production at the Pico Playhouse.

Quarterlife tells the story of four young adults entering their mid-twenties who gather in a small lake cabin in New Hampshire for one wild night of drinking, debauchery, and possibly devastating self-discovery. The actors cast by visiting director Matt Doherty were mostly new faces for the company, with Bitsie Tulloch, Em Drieling, and Tamlin Hall joining SUS Director Clark Freeman to flesh out this story of youth's ugly departure.  Full to the brim with honesty and the disturbing true-to-life cycles of dependency and changing love, Quarterlife played for five weeks to some of the best houses ever in attendence at Sight Unseen, gathering more and more momentum for the team recently touted by LA Weekly as "certainly a company to watch." 

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"Excellent Ensemble cast in this character driven story that is truthful and honest, with a lot to say." -American Radio Network

"Forman perceptively examines the rituals of intimacy and competition, and the buried hostilities that lurk beneath facades of love and friendship...Director Matt Doherty and his fine cast ably explore the emotional depths and shallows on the homey, atmospheric set by Michael Brainerd...Funny and Apt."
- L.A. Weekly (RECOMMENDED!)

"The Progeny of Generation X meets Lanford Wilson...quite funny...intelligently written...a solid physical production and some pert performances under Matt Doherty's direction." - L.A. Times

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