David Rabe

Full Length, Black Comedy

6m, 1f, 1 dog

Unit set

Trouble starts when Teresa tells her brother that this guy did something to her with his dog in bed. Nobody seems to know exactly what, but they do know that somebody's got to pay. So what is 'The Dig Problem'? It's the wrong thing said to the wrong person. From then on it's a chain reaction of misplaced passions and galloping sentences leading to deadly conclusions in a darkly funny play about men, women, ghosts, sex, betrayal, psychic power and the realization that when you destroy the natural world in Act One, you better look out in Act Two.

"A fractured folly of city life from an Italian American perspective, a black comedy about the underworld and a compelling portrait of six people on a giddy ride into the unknown. It's hysterical. It's crazy. It's great." - Republican American

"Imagine Samuel Becket and the comedy team of Bob and Ray signing on to write The Sopranos." - The New York Times

"Darkly whimsical ... resonates with a kind of loopy truth." - Hartford Courant

"Vivid and exhilarating." - New Haven Advocate

"Hilarious, with laughter coming at every possible angle." - Fairfield Citizen News

FEE: $100 per performance.