8 /10 1 Votes
First performance March 2003 | 4/5 Goodreads Nominations Pulitzer Prize for Drama | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playwrights Theresa Rebeck, Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros Similar Theresa Rebeck plays, Other plays | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Omnium Gatherum is a play written in 2003 by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros. It was one of three finalists for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Omnium Gatherum premiered in March 2003 at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Kentucky.
The play opened Off-Broadway at the Variety Arts Theatre on September 9, 2003 in previews and closed on November 30, 2003. Directed by Will Frears, the cast featured Amir Arison, Jenny Bacon, Phillip Clark (Roger), Melanna Gray (Julia), Edward A. Hajj, Kristine Nielsen (Suzie), Dean Nolen (Terence), and Joseph Lyle Taylor.
The play had its West Coast premiere at ACT Theatre in Seattle, Washington in October 2003.
Plot summary
A sophisticated and sometimes surreal dinner party in Manhattan becomes a sounding board for a variety of cultural icons as they pontificate and argue about capitalism, terrorism, popular culture, feminism, food, wealth, heroism, morality, Eastern meditation, Star Trek, and justice. The evening is hosted by Suzie, a former caterer, in her beautiful dining room. She has invited Terence, a British journalist, Roger, an American writer, and Julia, an African-American, among others. The conversation veers from comedy to realism to satire and ends in chaos. Over it all hangs the shadow of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.