boom
By Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Directed by Jason Southerland
Chicago Premiere
September 11 - October 11, 2009
Performances of boom run 80 minutes without intermission.

It’s the end of the world. Do you have a date?
As an undiscovered comet hurtles towards earth, a lone scientist takes it upon himself to preserve the human race through a personal ad. But his plan for “intensely significant coupling” is more than his first date bargained for, food is running out, and his marine lab-turned-shelter is now beyond repair. This darkly funny experiment is an off-beat and hilarious look at the end of the world and how we might start anew.

“Mr. Nachtrieb has a gift for darkly funny dialogue and an appealing way of approaching big themes sideways.” —New York Times

“Sex! Planet-ruining cataclysms! Loads of booze! We’re ready for whatever strange places boom wants to take us.”—Variety

"Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s play flips from pants-around-the-ankles comedy to hipster ‘Twilight Zone’ takeoff…boom is imaginative and easy to like." —The New Yorker