Intramural Theater Company Presents: Critical Mass – A Dark and Caustic Comedy
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Friday-Monday, Sept. 19-29, 2025
Talkback with the Playwright: Sat. 9/27
Performances at 7:30PM
Suggested Donation: $25+
None turned away for lack of funds, no pressure
Intramural Theater Company Presents:
Critical Mass
A Dark and Caustic Comedy
By Obie award-winning playwright & performer Deb Margolin
“An artful and insightful work about our compulsion to inflict opinions on one another, and beyond that, a treatise on how we smother our loneliness with words.”
–Peter Marks, New York Times
Critical Mass makes its regional premiere at the Marigny Opera House! In it, a Narrator – artist, mother, investigator of society’s foibles – takes us on an absurd and darkly humorous exploration of humanity’s impulse towards criticism, from its most elevated to its most base. Meanwhile, a troupe of actors desperately works to prove their worth to a theater critic, and the Critic himself goes through an existential crisis about his role in these actors’ lives and the value of his work. In the end, the only choice left is to dive desperately into human connection.
Amidst madcap costume and set changes, hilariously backward social scenarios, and haunting original music in the tragic grandeur of the Marigny Opera House, a mirror is turned on the actors, the critic, and the audience in turn, as we plumb what really goes on behind the curtains of our lives.
FEATURING:
NARRATOR – Pamela D. Roberts
CRITIC – Joshua Tierney / Brian Sands
ENSEMBLE #1 – Mary Davis
ENSEMBLE #2 – Roney Jones
ENSEMBLE #3 – Dontez Banks
ENSEMBLE #4 – Joe Signorelli
Playwright – Deb Margolin
Director – Tricia Anderson
Stage Manager – Amani Veals
Sound Designer – Bobby Burvant
Set & Props Designer – Adam Tourek
Lighting Designer – Stephen Thurber
Costume Designer – Leah Floyd
Producer – Bennett Kirschner
Poster Designer – Sarah VanDerMeer
This production is supported by a grant from the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Foundation.
About Intramural Theater Company: Founded in 2015, Intramural Theater is a New Orleans-based theatre collective focused on physical and spatial experiments with original scripts. The Intramurals integrate live music, movement, and visual arts to produce immersive, site-responsive works. “Intra-mural” translates to “within walls” – our central passion is finding walls within which whole worlds can emerge, and where intimacy and insatiable curiosity intersect.