Orange Flower Water, By Craig Wright

The Jungle seems to have struck on a formula worth exploring. After a long and successful (and extended) run of The Blue Room, David Hare’s adaptation of Schnitzler’s La Ronde, The Jungle now presents this premiere of a script by St. Paul playwright Craig Wright. Blue Room, you’ll recall, is a sort of Eyes Wide Shut for the stage. It explores the more uncomfortable regions of love, sex, loyalty, and betrayal in a moderately avant-garde setting. It seems to be a subject Minnesota audiences are digging, and this production looks at it with a more homegrown perspective. Wright’s new script is set in “fictional” Pine City, Minnesota (apparently it bears no relation to the real Pine City; we’ll try not to worry about it), and involves a wrenching adulterous affair that tears two couples apart. If you want to catch Wright at the peak of his writing powers while he’s still a local—he’s off to L.A. to join the writing staff of HBO’s Six Feet Under later this summer—now is the time. Jungle Theater, (612)822-7063