Essential Self-Defense

The next work for the stage from the Pulitzer finalist Adam Rapp Essential Self-Defense.In Essential Self-Defense disgruntled misfit Yul Carroll takes a job as an attack dummy in a women''s self-defense class and finds himself mysteriously drawn to Sadie the repressed bookworm mercilessly honing her skills on him. Meanwhile all''s not well on the unassuming Midwestern streets of Bloggs: with local children vanishing at an alarming rate our hero his lady friend and a motley assortment of poets butchers and punk librarians prepare to battle the darkness on the edge of town.