Trap Door Theatre is bringing its fine 2009 production of A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians to Poland and Romania next month, and to warm up for the trip, Trap Door is remounting the production for one night—Tuesday, May 4—at the University of Chicago’s Reynolds Club, 5706 S. University, in the third-floor theater. The play, by noted—and controversial—27-year-old Polish writer Dorota Maslowska, is a black comedy about a stoned young couple stranded in the Polish countryside on a snowy night, trying to get back to Warsaw after a late-night “extreme poverty” theme party. Lacking both money and phones, the drugged-out pair—Parcha (Kevin Cox) and Dzina (Tiffany Bedwell)—pose as homeless gypsies as they try to hitch rides from passers-by. The 2006 script was novelist Maslowska’s first play; Trap Door’s well-acted, inventively designed expressionist production, directed by Max Truax, marked American premiere of this hallucinatory road movie for the stage.
