The Versailles: A Reading of a New Comedy

What’s funny about the great reces­sion?
It’s 2008, and the res­i­dents of “The Versailles,” a huge lux­ury condo com­plex plopped down in the mid­dle of inner-city Philly, band together when their land­lord goes AWOL, their neigh­bors start defect­ing, and the power goes off. Both a hilar­i­ous satire and a fas­ci­nat­ing study of what hap­pens to civ­i­liza­tion when its com­forts are stripped away—urban camp­ing, right­eous theft, yup­pies with food stamps—this new com­edy capu­tres the feel­ing of des­per­a­tion at the height of the Great Recession and mer­ci­lessly skew­ers the hypocrisy and wish­ful think­ing that got us there.

I’m read­ing this play with a tal­ented group of actors at the sto­ried Theatricum Botanicum this Sunday. Here are the details:

The Versailles by Erica Jones
Directed by William Dennis Hunt

Sunday, June 12 at 11am

Theatricum Botannicum
1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd.
FREE!
(Donations welcome.)