Vernal & Sere Theatre presents Sincerity Forever

From the venue:

The inhabitants of small-town Hillsbottom are under siege: from high anxiety, toxic waste, carbon pollution, global warming, and (perhaps most of all) mystic furballs. Two profane aliens have landed and turned typical country small talk into something sinister. Is God watching? Does he care? Is God a he? In the play that simultaneously won Mac Wellman an Obie Award and lost him favor with the National Endowment for the Arts, American consciousness is examined with a peculiar humor, imagination, and honesty.

In its inaugural production, Vernal & Sere Theatre seeks to establish its mission of presenting imaginative, avant-garde theatre that makes no apologies and no concessions. Borrowing from the great Samuel Beckett, the company's name suggests that it will focus on work both classical and new that straddles the line between sacred and profane, fertility and barrenness, happiness and grief. Mac Wellman's play, written in the early nineties, seems especially appropriate during this presidential cycle, when political discourse has been exchanged for talking heads, argument for belligerence, and humility for arrogance. Feeling as if, in reality, America has been visited by a kind of furball, VST presents Sincerity Forever with urgency and hilarity at the inaneness of it all.