Adam Rapp's Latest, Essential Self-Defense, Joins Playwrights Season

Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense will be the final production of Playwrights Horizons' 2006-2007 season. The world premiere mounting, a co-production between Playwrights and the Edge Theater, will begin performances in Spring 2007 at Playwrights' Peter Jay Sharp Theater.

In Essential Self-Defense, a disgruntled misfit takes a job as an attack dummy in a women's self-defense class and finds himself mysteriously drawn to the repressed bookworm who's beating on him. But all's not well on the mean 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. Carolyn Cantor will direct the show at the Peter Jay Sharp.

Essential Self-Defense joins a Playwrights season that already included Bruce Norris' The Paint and the Itch, Tanya Barfield's Blue Door, the musical Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, Richard Nelson's Frank's Home and A.R. Gurney's Crazy Mary.