Blue/Orange

Bay Area Premiere
by Joe Penhall
directed by Tom Ross
April 8, 2005 - May 15, 2005

Recent winner of England’s coveted Olivier, Critics’ Circle, and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play, this incendiary tale is a personal and ideological struggle about race, class, mental illness, and human isolation. This exhilarating comic drama is set in a London psychiatric hospital, where a young man brazenly claims to be the son of exiled African dictator Idi Amin.

Over the course of 24 hours, his two rival psychiatrists fight over his diagnosis and treatment in what the New York Times calls a “ferocious comedy, with dialogue fueled by testosterone and paced like a volley of bullets.” This hot property from London is a must- see.