In this world-premiere production written by Lee Blessing, two fiftysomethings–a man and a woman–wake up side by side in a house on a mountaintop that’s encircled by water. They have absolutely no recollection of their lives before. Are they husband and wife? One-night lovers? People pass by, filling in the blanks of their forgotten lives, but their confusion only snowballs, turning from bemused perplexity into all-out terror. Blessing, a Minneapolis native and playwright of award-winners like A Walk in the Woods and Two Rooms (produced last January by Theatre in the Round), uses A Body of Water to explore some of our greatest worries: Alzheimer’s, memory loss, and waking in midlife to a relatively meaningless existence. 700 N. First St., Minneapolis; 612-377-2224; www.guthrietheater.org
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