THE MEMO “...rather than simply making this a send-up of Czechoslovakia or Communism, I set the play in the contemporary United States in a government office in Washington, DC. In a moment of corporate personhood, government gridlock, surveillance techniques and torture were in the forefront of our national consciousness, the choice had more than a little resonance.” Stephen Nunns (director) “Originally written and produced in the mid 1960s to satirize the labyrinthine bureaucratic procedures of Soviet-era communism, the play’s central conceit—a nonspecific government agency decrees that all internal communications must be conducted in a made-up language that’s nearly impossible to understand—effortlessly becomes a way to skewer the strategic banality of corporate America.” – Bret McCabe, Bmore Art “The Memo” was awarded “Best Revival” for the City Paper’s Best of Baltimore 2014 and was listed in the year’s top 10 classical music and theater events in Baltimore by The Baltimore Sun. The Single Carrot Theatre Directed by Stephen Nunns, Set design by Rick Gerriets Lighting Design by Steven McDonald.

THE MEMO

“...rather than simply making this a send-up of Czechoslovakia or Communism, I set the play in the contemporary United States in a government office in Washington, DC. In a moment of corporate personhood, government gridlock, surveillance techniques and torture were in the forefront of our national consciousness, the choice had more than a little resonance.” Stephen Nunns (director)

“Originally written and produced in the mid 1960s to satirize the labyrinthine bureaucratic procedures of Soviet-era communism, the play’s central conceit—a nonspecific government agency decrees that all internal communications must be conducted in a made-up language that’s nearly impossible to understand—effortlessly becomes a way to skewer the strategic banality of corporate America.” – Bret McCabe, Bmore Art

“The Memo” was awarded “Best Revival” for the City Paper’s Best of Baltimore 2014 and was listed in the year’s top 10 classical music and theater events in Baltimore by The Baltimore Sun.

The Single Carrot Theatre

Directed by Stephen Nunns,

Set design by Rick Gerriets

Lighting Design by Steven McDonald.