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Dark Yellow
a new play by Julia Jordan

featuring
Tina Benko
Max Kaplan and Elias Koteas

Directed by Nick Sandow
Produced by Michael & Victoria Imperioli, Howard Axel and Tina Thor

Premiered May 2006

 

Dark Yellow is a noir play that begs the question: is anything what it seems? In a rural place, a murder in a cornfield gradually becomes the focus of an unusual encounter between a local woman and a stranger she meets at the small town bar. As they engage in a bedroom game of questions, word-play and sexual intrigue, both strive for a connection while identities and motives remain hidden. Testing the boundaries of trust and intimacy, they struggle with their instincts toward suspicion and self-preservation. In the end, the truth about the murder is unearthed in this exploration of crime, human nature, vengeance and redemption.