Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them

by Christopher Durang
Rhode Island Premiere
May 5 - June 5, 2011

FELICITY: I have a funny feeling about him. I’m afraid he might be a terrorist. Or maybe he’s in the Mafia. Or maybe he’s bipolar. Or maybe he’s a serial killer. Or maybe he’s just a drug addict and alcoholic and out of prison on parole.
MOTHER: Who are you talking about, dear?
FELICITY: My husband, my husband, my husband!

From the screwball imagination of American playwright Christopher Durang (The Marriage of Bette & Boo, Beyond Therapy), an uproarious new comedy about America’s ongoing “war on terror.” A young woman, Felicity, wakes up to a strange man, a hangover, and a whole lot of questions: Is her new husband, Zamir (who claims to be Irish), a terrorist, a crazed alcoholic, or both? Is her father’s hobby of butterfly collecting for real, or is it a cover for his involvement in a right-wing shadow government? Is her mother a theater-loving eccentric, or is she actually insane? The Rhode Island premiere of Durang’s 2009 Off-Broadway hit answers all these questions and more with the author’s trademark outrageous wit!

Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them Photo Gallery (click on photo)

Cast & Crew

Set Design & Stage Management by Jessica Hill*
Costume Design by David T. Howard
Lighting Design by Matthew Terry
Sound Design by Charles Cofone
Fight Choreography by Normand Beauregard
Technical Direction by Dade Veron

CAST
Felicity, Casey Seymour Kim*
Zamir, Alexander Platt*
Luella, Wendy Overly*
Leonard, Sam Babbitt*
Reverend Mike, Gary Lait Cummings
Hildegarde, Jeanine Kane*
Voice, Christopher Rosenquest

Assistant Director, Susie Schutt; Production Manager, Jessica Hill; Props Master, Katryne Hecht; Dramaturge, Jennifer Madden; Master Electrician, Kathy Crowley; Assistant Stage Manager, Helen R. Brennan; Wardrobe Assistant, Emma Haney; Production Assistant, Allison McMaster

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.