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Bob and Lily Baker get together with Sam, Bob's best friend, and Molly, Sam's wife, for a 15th wedding anniversary. What is intended as a celebration of enduring companionship begins to be undermined by a sense of misgiving and a strange sadness that seems to have befallen Lily. This is a tale of a difficult, challenging weekend, during which two marriages seem on the brink of collapse. But it is also the weekend when Bob and Lily Baker fall in love with each other again. "... there is a richness of characterization and scope here that tease, please and surprise, and with a mythic stretch that is, at its best, reminiscent of Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" -Nancy Churnin, Los Angeles Times "I first encountered the work of playwright Russell Davis ... at the world premier of his FURTHER ADVENTURES OF SALLY ... I found myself hanging on every word and admiring Davis's singular communicatory skills more with each passing moment ... I was no less entranced with Lily than I was with Sally ... amusing us more than a little en route with a verbal wizardry that warms and delights. Davis at the same time painlessly imparts a deeper universal meaning having to do with personal signposts lost and regained ..." -Nels Nelson, Daily News

"There is something tragic about in the] askew big-top setting, even before the disheveled, vaguely European ringmaster explains that his menagerie of minstrels is somewhat 'dysfunctional.' Banners are frayed and tutus are tattered, but the colors still gleam and the tightrope is taut, giving this gaggle of grotesques just enough dignity to hold their shoulders square. Within this broken calliope frame, Davis piles a fantastic compost of meaty metaphor and biblical allegory, bears on unicycles and sad Freanch clowns. The rich, layered text gives way to inspired surreal absurdity that isn't merely a self-conscious jab at surrealism and absurdism... From trapeze to pirate ship to a monster walrus head, the staging is visual poetry, making THE WILD GOOSE CIRCUS all the more strange and beautiful and rare." Tom Orr, The Seattle Times "I remember the community at Sundance after two and a half weeks of work and the play's final reading: everyone was deeply, deeply moved. Some were stunned. Both Oskar Eustis and Steven Dietz who had worked on the play--and had had reservations about how completely the play might work--were shocked--registering that it amazed them, with all their professional work, that they hadn't seen the real power and potential of the play up until the final reading." David Kranes, Artistic Director, Sundance Playwrights Lab "Maybe it was the emotion at the end of the Lab, or the incredible work of the actors especially Walter Bobbie who read the lead, but the reading was the most memorable and moving in my ten years with Sundance." David Chambers, Managing Director, Sundance Playwrights Lab

"A shaky romantic connection is made between an alienated American painter and an Iranian student in this sensitive and surprising drama." Jason Zinoman, The New York Times "...Conflicts between mother and son, brother and sister, Christian versus Middle East pair off for preliminaries before piling up in a noisy climax...a fascinating blend of tense drama, inspired comedy and a sweet, innocent and chaste romance, softened further by surprisingly effective moments of still and silence ..." William Westhoven, Daily Record "...seriously consider an excursion to see Russell Davis' MAHIDA'S EXTRA KEY TO HEAVEN. The premise of the play centers on two young people who meet by chance in the evening at a ferry landing, waiting for a boat that will not come until morning. One of them starts talking. Thomas's irrepressible, impossible loquacity sparks a dialogue that draws Mahida, an Iranian student, into a confidence first, and then to a dramatic confrontation with her brother in the second act. Although much of the conversation in MAHIDA'S EXTRA KEY TO HEAVEN is about cultural differences, the real subject of the play is not these disagreements. It is about talking itself--how we talk to one another or fail to talk, and what happens when talking breaks down.... At the heart of MAHIDA'S EXTRA KEY TO HEAVEN is a parable Mahida is trying to write about two very different creatures, one without a shadow and the other without a reflection, who find in each other a traveling companion. In the story, as in the play, Mahida and Thomas do not quite become partners, but their heaven is just the other side of the wall, where the water is wide and calm...." Jim Kates, The Arts Fuse "It's easy enough to think of people from different cultures as if they're from literally different worlds altogether, but the simple--and perhaps hardest--thing to remember at times is that we are all occupying the same planet. It's a planet that may seem vast and broken, but a planet of our own all the same. To Mahida and Thomas...the leads in Russell Davis' perfectly charming MAHIDA'S EXTRA KEY TO HEAVEN, this isn't such a hard thing to remember. Yes, they start out as two perfect strangers in this imperfect world, but through conversation and shared passions they find a way to understand each other despite the bridges they have to cross to get there. Just the right blend of philosophical and comical, MAHIDA'S EXTRA KEY TO HEAVEN pairs two unlikely strangers from two different backgrounds together in an elegant and charming plot...." Cheyenne Heinselman, Monadnock Ledger-Transcript

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