T. Schreiber Studio & Theatre
presents

BLOOD SKY

Written by YASMINE BEVERLY RANA
Directed by TERRY SCHREIBER

Featuring
KRISTIN ELI SMITH, KELLY KOLATAC, JIMMY ALEXIS CINTRON,
SAMANTHA RIVERS COLE, TIMOTHY WEINERT, VICTORIA GUTHRIE,
BRIAN SHAFFER, & DAVID HAMZIK

Sound Design: ANDY EVAN COHEN
Set Design: HAL TINE’
Costume Design: DAVID TOSER
Lighting Design: DENNIS PARICHY
Technical Director: NATE FRIESWYK
Scenic Artist: LAURA GREENFIELD
Set Design Assistant: D. SCHUYLER BURKS

T. Schreiber Studio and Theatre
151 West 26th Street
7th Floor
New York, NY 10011
(212) 352-3101 or www.tschreiber.org
Through April 6, 2014

In a small town somewhere in America, a young woman’s happy night turns frightening under a terrifying sky. She can’t explain it to her date, but she feels that the sky is overwhelmingly threatening. If she says it out loud, it will make things worse, she tells him. He doesn’t much care, anyway.

We meet Joley at three stages of her life: age 14, age 18, and our narrator, Joley age 30. Isolated from friends, raised an only child by her prickly mother, she is the very definition of lost and lonely. But then, out of nowhere, a strange man in white enters her life. Joley tells him she wants to leave this town and never return. All she can think about is escape. Her reasons are those that anyone from a white-trash town will understand. Gossip, restrictions, boredom. He gradually becomes her friend, then something more.

The three Joleys, KRISTIN ELI SMITH, KELLY KOLATAC, and SAMANTHA RIVERS COLE, nail it as the lonely girl. TIMOTHY WEINERT is the perfect, inscrutable, Guy, the man in white. The play leaves us with both questions and answers, and the suspicion that perhaps we, too, have a man in white somewhere deep inside, like a silent scream.

-Karen D’Onofrio-