Mixed Company Presents “Five Flights” by Adam Bock

Written by Gail M. Burns - October 2009

Great Barrington, MA – Opening Thursday October 1 Mixed Company presents Five Flights, Adam Bock’s comic drama – a dreamy and poignantly funny take on family, spirituality, love, and birds. Five Flights will run Thursday-Saturday nights at 8 pm through October 24th.

Five Flights centers on siblings Ed and Adele who inherit an enormous aviary that their late father built for his deceased wife, whose soul, he believed, had transformed into the body of a wren. The grown children are faced with the dilemma of what to do with the crumbling structure. Sister-in-law Jane wants to build tidy new houses; friend Olivia wants to build The Church of the Fifth Day honoring birds and the Fifth Day of creation; Ed wants to let the building fall to the ground. Folded into this debate are issues of religious conviction, fear of commitment, the way Russian ballet resembles a hockey game, and the courtship of Ed by Tom, a professional hockey player.

The production stars Diane Prusha, Hanuman Goleman, Stephanie Hedges, Ryan Marchione, Enrico Spada and Jennifer Young, and is directed by Emma Dweck. Lighting design by Maia Robbins-Zust, and sound design by Peter Wise.

Five Flights will be performed at Mixed Company, 37 Rossetter St, Great Barrington, MA 01230. Tickets are only $15. For reservations call (413) 528-2320.

• 
• 
• 
• 
•