Adam Rapp, Kindness
Podcast
Kindness
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Written by
Adam Rapp
Directed by Adam Rapp
An ailing mother and her teenaged son flee Illinois and a crumbling marriage for the relative calm and safety of a midtown Manhattan hotel. Mom holds tickets to a popular musical about love and redemption. Her son, a gifted student currently enrolled at a prestigious military academy, isn’t interested. So Mom takes the kindly cabdriver instead, while the boy entertains a visitor from down the hall, an enigmatic young woman seeking solace after a tumultuous, potentially dangerous evening. KINDNESS is a play about the possibility for sympathy in a harsh world and the meaning of mercy in the face of devastating circumstances.
Creative Team
Lauren Helpern
Scenic Designer
Daphne Javitch
Costume Designer
Mary Louise Geiger
Lighting Designer
Eric Shim
Sound Designer
Richard Hodge
Production Stage Manager
Photos of (1) Christopher Denham and Annette O'Toole; (2) Annette O'Toole; (3) Katherine Waterston; and (4) Annette O'Toole and Ray Anthony Thomas by Joan Marcus.
“Compelling. A well-crafted mini-thriller, which keeps you in suspense until the final blackout.”
— Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News“Adam Rapp proves himself the definitive director of his own work. Christopher Denham has the sly wit and restless intelligence to play Dennis.”
— Marilyn Stasio, Variety
“FOUR STARS. A terrifically robust performance from Annette O’Toole.”
— Diane Snyder, Time Out New York