The Water Engine

Spooky Action Theater presents The Water Engine. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet’s play is set in Chicago, during the 1933-4 World’s Fair and Century of Progress Exhibition. Through the device of a live radio play, Mamet follows the agony of an inventor named Charles Lang who attempts to get his revolutionary creation patented: an engine which runs exclusively on water. Lang soon runs up against the devious powers that run society and industry behind the scenes. Versatile character actor Ian LeValley is Charles Lang in an ensemble that includes Scott Seder as the unscrupulous lawyer determined to stop the inventor’s plan at any cost; and Mary Egan, as the fragile but far-seeing Rita, Lang’s sister.