The Internationalist

New York's hip young theatre company 13P developed this fresh and fascinating comedy by one of their resident playwrights. Anne Washburn follows an American businessman lost in translation in this mysterious, multilingual romance. Directed by Kirk Jackson, who helmed last season's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, the production brings together acclaimed actor Tyler Pierce (Fat Pig) and Holly Twyford, making her long-awaited return to the Washington stage. When Lowell, the central character in Anne Washburn's The Internationalist, sets off on an international business trip, he ends up with a bad case of cultural jet-lag. In an unnamed country where he does not speak the language, the normally confident Lowell struggles to find his footing. Are his colleagues impressed by him, or laughing at him? What are all those mysterious announcements on the office PA system? And the alluring new woman in his life-who is she really? Lowell isn?t the only one operating outside his comfort zone-playwright Anne Washburn has invented a new language for The Internationalist, and the audience sees the world through his eyes. When Lowell doesn?t understand the language, neither do we. With its film-noir style and jet-setting flair, The Internationalist is a cross-cultural comedy of errors for the global age.