Love Lab
By Lila Feinberg
Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission, December 2012
Sponsored by The Lee Strasberg Creative Center®
December 5-8, 2012 | The Marilyn Monroe Theatre
Lila Feinberg is first recipient of The Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission, an annual playwriting commission that encourages early-career playwrights to write original plays for large ensembles of emerging actors. Through the commission, LSTFI and The Lee Strasberg Creative Center partner emerging playwrights, directors, and Method-trained actors to encourage “the synergy of great acting with the development of new works.” The Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission seeks to expand on the lineage of the Group Theatre, the work of Lee Strasberg, and playwright Clifford Odets whose plays for this storied ensemble transformed the American Theatre.
SYNOPSIS: Meet neuropsychiatrist Dr. Stone, leading expert on the science of love. When three young couples embark on a retreat to his world-renowned physiology lab, the fracture lines in each relationship slowly oxidize with every test. Love Lab, a new dark comedy by Lila Feinberg, explores the desperate measures we take to choose our life partner, in an age when everlasting love is an unpromising statistic.
FEATURING:
Guillermo Arribas, Davis Cannada, Victor Cervantes, Addie Doyle, Josh Greenwald,
Annalee Hurst, Hanna Lee, Jessica Sharples, Olivia Songer, Noam Tomaschoff and Michael Turner.