Florida premiere of ‘How to Transcend a Happy Marriage’ opens at Lab on February 21
The Florida premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s How to Transcend a Happy Marriage opens February 21 at The Laboratory Theater of Florida.
Four best friends decide to invite an unusual young polyamorous woman and her two companions to join them for a New Year’s Eve party. What happens next pushes the boundaries of friendship, marriage, and parenthood.
The show will be directed by New York director, international acting coach and Meisner alum Steven Ditmyer.
“Sarah Ruhl is a wonderful 
writer with an incredible imagination and with How to Transcend a Happy Marriage she has given us a story that is both profoundly human and fantastically mythical and magical at the same time,” syas Director Steven Ditmyer. “I can’t wait for the Southwest Florida audience to go on this journey with us!”
As a director, Ditmyer has worked with Alec Baldwin, Charles Durning, Jack Klugman, and many more. As an actor, Steven has worked with Al Pacino, Arthur Miller, Tony Randall, Ron Rifkin, Sam Waterson, Dianne Wiest, among others. At Lab Theater, he has recently taught not only a 3-hour Meisner taster workshop but a full Level 
One certification course in the Meisner technique, which is widely considered to be one of the foundational methods for actors.
“This new play is a subversive enchantment,” states Newsweek. “It is part absurd domestic serious-comedy, part erotic magic realism, unflinching about taboos and about questioning that, just maybe, monogamy isn’t enough.”
There 
will be an opening night reception with hors d’oeuvres by The Gathering Place starting at 7:15 p.m. on Friday, February 21.
How to Transcend a Happy Marriage plays from February 21 – March 14 at the Laboratory Theater of Florida, with a half-price preview on February 20.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.