Omnium Gatherum

 

written by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros

directed by Will Frears

performed at Variety Arts Theatre in New York City

 

Omnium Gatherum opened off-Broadway in New York City at the Variety Arts Theatre in September 2003 and was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

 

The play centers around a sophisticated and sometimes surreal dinner party in Manhattan that becomes a sounding board for a variety of cultural icons as they pontificate and argue about capitalism, terrorism, popular culture, feminism, food, wealth, heroism, morality, Eastern meditation, Star Trek, and justice. The conversation veers from comedy to realism to satire and ends in chaos. Over it all hangs the shadow of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.