Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?
DC premiere
October 11–November 2, 2008 at H Street Playhouse
Guy would do anything for Sam. Sam would do anything. But when Sam wants total, unquestioning commitment, what's a guy to do? On one level a dissection of a dysfunctional relationship, Drunk Enough is also an incisive look at U.S. foreign policy and the seduction of power. The perfect play to reexamine our nation's place in the world as we entered the pivotal 2008 election season.
Cast
Adam Jonas Segaller: SamPeter Stray: Guy
Crew
Director: John Vreeke, artistic advisor to Forum TheatreAssistant director and production designer: Michael Dove*
Technical director and lighting codesigner: Mark W.C. Wright*
Assistant costume designer: Rose McConnell*
Stage manager: Amy Kellett
Production assistant and board operator: Megan Reichelt
Dramaturg: Brent Stansell
Production staff: Fiona Blackshaw*, Patrick Bussink*, Paul Frydrychowski*, Brent Lowder*, Alexander Strain*, and Jesse Terrill*
* Forum company member
What the press said
"Pleasingly, teasingly naked political satire...(groove, in any event, on its masterly construction.) Over 45 minutes, the actors...manage to navigate the rapids of clever wordplay, in ways that allow this short, angry cry of the heart to work." The Washington Post"Awfully well-written and generally well-captured. Churchill threads the personal through the political like the pro she is; whenever the evening's pitched agitprop threatens to bubble over into drunk-Poli-Sci-major-at-a-party territory, an abrupt change in tone deflates the rhetoric, exposing the all-too-human needs that drive geopolitical events." Washington City Paper
"Adam Jonas Segaller and Peter Stray are both successful in their ability to immediately react to each other as if long time partners, making their shorthand of words and phrases stick...Director Vreeke has a deft touch for this play and has cast it well." Potomac Stages