play #1, "Boom" by Ramon Esquivel is rehearsing in what appears to be a one-bedroom apartment on the top floor. Seriously. there's lounge chairs and couches, a queen sized bed, and mood lighting. Director Mik Kuhlman sits in one of these chairs and watches her actors run through their lines. Just sitting to the side and listening was hard for me--every actor is using a different dialect, some very UN-PC, and they're hilarious. Apparently, Esquivel has taken the concept of "weasel" to mean an espionage/James Bond-ish national security information dropper, and the different actors are different spies all come together for a -- well, i wont spoil it for you...
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