Somewhere between the first scene and the final curtain, the characters of The Project decide they've had enough.

They don't like their costumes. They think the writing is pretentious. They have notes. And when their narrator — a whiskey-drinking, increasingly desperate writer — refuses to listen, they chase him offstage.

The Project is a play that can't stop arguing with itself. The narrator lies to the audience and admits it. The characters break the fourth wall and then argue about whether they're doing it as actors or as characters. The projector crashes. The publisher keeps knocking. And somewhere underneath all the chaos, six people are trying to work out how to live with each other — a strained marriage, a relationship falling apart over heels and hair, a sex offender who just needed a bathroom, a woman who would like to be more than her résumé — while the man supposedly in charge of their stories drinks himself toward a deadline he's already missed.

The play opens with a grand statement about Art. The characters tear it apart in under five minutes. What's left is something harder to name and more honest: a piece of writing that knows it's a piece of writing, populated by people who know they're characters, all of them asking the same question the audience is asking.

What exactly is the point of all this?

CAST:

Vanessa Bomert - Jessica
Luis Friedrich - Stan
Roxane Gültlinger - Ashley
Jeff Silence - The Narrator
Johannes Süss - Bill
Sarah Süss - Carrie
Louisa Henzeschulz - Erin
Laurence Williams - Richard

Directed by Jeff Silence