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Susannah flood mude5/17/2023 "That should give me the right to have peace in my home." Has he read the condo bylaws? Following a confrontation, Ted starts rolling a bowling ball across the hardwood floors. Sarah tries to help Michael kick the habit by meditating with him between sessions of violent kinky sex (choreographed with utmost realism and nudity by Yehuda Duenyas).Įven with everything he has, Michael can't seem to concentrate in his new home: His prickly upstairs neighbor Ted (an absurdly vindictive Jeff Biehl) constantly blasts heavy metal while his daughter runs amok. He's willing to reconsider his position if Michael lands a multi-million-dollar account with a famous basketball player (Otoja Abit). Senior partner Mark (Peter McCabe) insists that Michael hasn't been passed up for being black, but for being an alcoholic. "You should be living in a five-million-dollar apartment," fellow lawyer and romantic interest Sarah (Susannah Flood) tells him, positing that the only reason he's 40 and not yet a partner is because he's black. The only problem is that Michael doesn't live in average America, but the land of unquenchable greed. While his latest, Fulfillment (now making its New York debut at the Flea Theater), isn't as viscerally revolting, Bradshaw's mélange of race, power, and ambition will leave more than a few audience members feeling queasy.įrom the vantage point of the average American, our protagonist Michael (Gbenga Akinnagbe) has everything: a well-paying job at a prestigious law firm, an exciting sex life, and a $1.5 million apartment in one of Manhattan's coolest neighborhoods. His last show in New York, Intimacy (2014 with the New Group), soaked the front rows of the audience in simulated bodily fluids. To call playwright Thomas Bradshaw a "provocateur" is to make a serious understatement. Susannah Flood and Gbenga Akinnagbe star in Thomas Bradshaw's Fulfillment, directed by Ethan McSweeny, at the Flea Theater.
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