DIRECTED BY: David Bonde

Stage Manager: Allison Francis

Show Graphics: David Bonde, David Furness

Website: Joseph T. Janz III

THE STORY: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or, at least so it seems when it comes to terrorist politics and the relationship between the government and the media. Though originally produced in 1988, Lee Blessing's Two Rooms could not be more timely.

The play tells the story of Michael Wells, an American professor at a university in Beirut, who is captured by a militant faction and held in a tiny cell for three years. Back in the United States, his wife Lainie, has "cleansed" his former office by removing everything from it. She spends most of her time there to share in his experience as much as she can. Throughout the course of the play, she is visited by Walker Harris, a newspaper reporter, and Ellen Van Oss, the government official who has been assigned to her.