Metropolitan Playhouse
Presents

ICEBOUND

Written by Owen Davis
Directed by Alex Roe
Set Design: Alex Roe
Lighting Design: Christopher Weston
Costume Design: Sidney Fortner
Stage Manager: Katy Moore

Starring: Victor Barranca, Connor Barth, Anne Bates, Quinlan Corbett, Gregory Dann, Sidney Fortner, Michelle Geisler, Olivia Killingsworth, Kelly King, Maria Silverman, Alyssa Simon, Rob Skolits

Metropolitan Playhouse
Through October 19, 2014
www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/tickets 800.838.3006

Three siblings - ‘the Jordans' as they proudly refer to themselves - from rural Maine, sit in the parlor of their dying mother’s home, anxiously awaiting the doctor’s prognosis. They mask their greed by feigning love for their mother. But their real motives become clear once they discuss their mother’s will; which one of them needs her fortune most and whether it would be divided equally. They are like “carrion crows around a sick cow at pasture”.

Mother Jordan is a cold, unfeeling woman typical of stoic New Englanders. As she breathes her last breath, we learn from the Judge that she willed everything to Jane, their reliable, distant cousin who has been her caregiver for 7 years. She knew her children’s motives and knew they would be irresponsible, says the Judge.

Cousin Jane rules the roost now and keeps a firm hold on the family fortune denying the siblings any advances or loans without conditions. Youngest brother Ben, the outlaw, is coerced by Jane into working the family farm or else go to prison. There are twists and turns in who secretly loves (or lusts) whom and the story takes a dramatic turn when naughty Nettie (granddaughter) and ne’er-do-well Ben begin a flirtatious relationship.

But there is one last promise Mother Jordan asked of Jane which Jane cleverly uses to attempt to extricate herself from the Jordans. But all’s well that ends well and Mother Jordan still gets the last laugh.

ICEBOUND is a dark comedy that shows how cold and conniving people can be, especially in desperate circumstances and a frigid environment - and I don’t mean climate!

Ms. Killingsworth as Jane is convincing as the tough-love caregiver who emerges triumphant.

- Gloria Talamas -