Steven played "Kip" and won a Dramalogue Award for Outstanding Performance in 1995.
This play, written by Nicky Silver, is according to our research, about "guilt,
redemption and self-punishment, and, against all odds, it is also very funny....
[Silver's] dialogue, which skillfully juxtaposes the banal and the outlandishly
whimsical, has the shimmer of an opal....Archly absurdist comedies come cheap
these days, finding one with depth of feeling is truly a cause to celebrate."
New York Times
"....funny, original, imaginative and possessed of a furious energy that makes
it spin like a top....full of wittily prickly lines and riotous exchanges, and
it uses the stage in splashily irreverent ways that can be exhilarating."
New York Magazine
Synopsis:
The play starts with a funeral where a brother and 2 sisters reunite at their
mother’s funeral, after several years of not seeing each other.
The character of Kip, for which Steven Culp won a Dramalogue Award, is one of
the sister’s husband. With his wife pregnant with their first child, Kip reacts
to the death of his mother in law “rather mystically”, by deciding to become an
artist and forget about his dental practice.
The play follows the problems of the set of siblings, which includes a ghost
from the past that reveals some chocking secrets, and changes in the personal
lives of the siblings. One of them being Bernadette abandoning her husband Kip
after she fall’s for her brother’s doctor.
Guilt, sorrow, love and humor are all found in this play.
