La Jolla Playhouse presents “A Black-billed Cuckoo,” by UC San Diego MFA playwriting graduate Mat Smart and directed by Shelley Butler, playing Sept 15 through Oct 11 in the Mandell Weiss Forum.
The elusive black-billed cuckoo is notoriously difficult to find, even if you know what you’re looking for – and that’s precisely the bird Ruth has been looking for these past few years. Over 24 hours in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, a close-knit birding group is turned upside down when some of its members glimpse this rare bird and others don’t.
Dom’t miss this introduction to a fascinating community of people who revel in the idea that any given day might bring something they’ve never seen before.
The 13th play to make the leap from the Playhouse’s DNA New Work Series to the stage, “A Black-billed Cuckoo” is a quiet comedy about healing, wonder and how to move on after missing out.
The cast features: Jo Garcia-Reger as Sadie, Jennifer Naimo as Tessa, Jeanine Serralles as Ruth, Samuel Stricklen as Ed and Sally Wingert as Marje, along with understudies Jamie Henkin, Sophia Oberg and Jared Van Heel.
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