Slipped Disc � A Study of the Upright Walk at the HERE Arts Center.

German Theater Abroad in association with HERE presents Slipped Disc � A Study of the Upright Walk, by Ingrid Lausund, translated by Henning Bochert, at the HERE Arts Center from the 3 - 23 May 2006 as part of the Stadttheater New York festival. The play runs in repertoire with The Woman Before

Slipped Disc � A Study of the Upright Walk: In times where you can be downsized faster than you can photocopy, the spine quickly becomes a very expendable part of the body.

Five office workers, three men and two women, are outside the Boss� office waiting for their daily execution. The careerists, Alpha man-boy Hufschmidt, social climber Kretzsky, power woman Schmitt, hysteric Kristensen and loser Kruse have been working hard on themselves. They�ve spent night after night rehearsing in front of the mirror, memorizing the precise choreography for the meeting with the Boss down to the smallest detail (Glasses in the ashtray, cigarette in the nose, the main thing is eye contact!).

The Boss remains unseen but the outcome of the meeting is hard to overlook.

Slipped Disc � A Study of the Upright Walk's cast, directed by Simone Blattner, features Andrea Ciannavei, Sanjit De Silva, Ron Domingo, Paul H. Juhn and Daniele Skraastad.

The play has set and costume design by Malve Lippmann, lighting by Peter West and sound by Elizabeth Rhodes.

Playwrite Ingrid Lausund has written and directed 30 plays over the last seven years, most of them comic farces examining contemporary life.