Stone Cold Dead Serious

A tribe of dropouts, junkies, and QVC addicts, the Ledbetters are just your average dysfunctional family. When their teenage son Wynne reaches the finals of a national video game contest, he embarks on an odyssey to New York City that pits him against a cast of freaks and threatens to bring the Ledbetters crashing to their post-nuclear knees. Hilarious and heartbreaking, Stone Cold Dead Serious is a high-octane romp across the wastelands of American suburbia. Marcus Stern, who directed last season’s mesmerizing production of Adam Rapp’s Nocturne, returns to stage the world premiere of this outrageous comedy.

SYNOPSIS

A pinball wizard for the twenty-first century, Wynne Ledbetter is surrounded by despair. His father is wasting away on workman’s comp, his mother is a double-shift waitress obsessed with the lives of the saints, and his sister is a dropout junky. But Wynne has a plan. One of only three players in the country to solve the Tang Dynasty computer game, he will travel to the championships in New York City, where the winner pockets a cool million dollars. With this money, he’ll put his sister in rehab, pay for his father’s operation, and employ his mother in his very own computer repair shop.

But he has to get there first.

Need to know

This production is intended for mature audiences and contains nudity, adult language and sexual situations.