Alan Ball’s “Five women wearing the same dress” at NY
By ZZ on Oct 19 2009 | No Comments »
Alan Ball
Kirby THEATER COMPANY will present Alan Ball‘s Five Women Wearing the Same Dress at Duo Theatre. Previews begin October 29. Opens November 5.
Before winning an Oscar for writing American Beauty, before creating the smash HBO shows Six Feet Under and True Blood, Alan Ball wrote Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. Five Women is a typically Ball-esque comedy-drama about five bridesmaids in a Knoxville, Tennessee mansion escaping from the reception to a bedroom upstairs. The characters explore sisterhood, lost dreams, and dark secrets, while making cutting, often hilarious, observations on life, love, sex, marriage, and religion. Five Women showcases Ball’s characteristic genius for using a single phrase to turn comedy into drama and then back again.
