Cloud 9 March 19, 2009

A hilarious take-no-prisoners assault on hypocrisy, Caryl Churchill's 'Cloud 9' is a whirlwind tour from 1880's Africa to contemporary America, confronting colonial and sexual repression with a gender-bent cast of characters who traverse 100 years while aging only 25. Cross-casting over both sexual and racial lines, society(1)s rigid expectations and stereotypes are brought into sharp focus as the characters struggle to fit their assigned roles in the first act in Victorian Africa. By the second act, today's characters have started to claim their identities as they endeavor to find themselves in the changing sexuality of our time. 'Cloud 9' is co-produced by Mercury Players Theatre and StageQ, and will run in repertory with 'Vamp.'