by Kate Pressman
Directed by Logan Reed
Showtimes
Friday, July 29 @ 8 pm
Saturday, July 30 @ 8 pm
Sunday, July 31 @ 2:30 pm
“You’re amazing” - “You’re amazing”
“You’re amazing” - “You’re amazing”
Two au pairs in a tiny room in the eaves of a Swiss chalet.
A chance to see the world before their “real lives” of middle class conformity begin.
There’s something that happens when you’re trapped in a place with someone. There’s something that happens when you’re the only two people on earth that matter. There’s something that happens when the place you’re trapped in doesn’t see you.
That tension creates pressure.
That pressure finds a release.
Based loosely on the 1933 murders committed by Christine and Léa Papin – the murders that inspired Jean Genet’s The Maids, Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, and a century of films, novels, songs, and Law and Order episodes in between – Pair explores the subtle tyranny of care work, the longing of the powerless for empire, and the tiny twisted pocket world a relationship creates.
About the Artist
Playwright Kate Pressman
Kate Pressman (she/her) is a New York-based playwright. Her plays include: Pair (finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Play Conference, 2021), Twenty-Six Seconds (studio presentation at the Park Avenue Armory as part of the Culture in a Changing America Symposium, 2019), and Piano for Four Hands (Roundabout Theatre New Play Reading Series, 2021). She co-founded the theater company 23.5 degree tilt with Elizagrace Madrone in 2021 and their Spring 2022 production, Marta Nesspek Presents… was a series of shorts, written, illustrated and puppeteered by Kate, with actors providing live voice-overs and original compositions by various composers.
