Exit, Pursued by a Bear by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Caroline Donica for Contemporary Classics

In Lauren Gunderson’s smart, dark revenge comedy, Nan plans to leave her abusive husband Kyle duct-taped to a chair, covered in meat and honey, for the Georgia bears to find.  But while she has him tied up, why not teach him a lesson first?  With the help of her friend Simon, a stripper named Sweetheart, and the words of personal hero Jimmy Carter, Nan makes her husband watch re-enactments of scenes from their painful past before the strangely hopeful end.  A very funny play about a very serious subject, based on Shakespeare’s most famous stage direction.

Contemporary Classics is supported, in part, by a generous grant from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta