HERMES

No Nude Men Productions and director Tore Ingersoll-Thorp are collaborating together for the world premiere of Bennett Fisher's new play about four derivative traders seeking to benefit from the Greek financial meltdown. Their acts of greed and deceit bring unforeseeable consequences and an unexpected visitor: Hermes, god of commerce and thieves, the physical manifestation of fraud, who goads the group into bolder action with slippery logic, tantalizing visions of immense wealth, and the occasional punch in the balls.

Inspired in part by the Lehman Brothers' role in the current Greek economic collapse, HERMES paints an impishly comic and glorifying portrait of equivocation, exploitation, disinformation, misappropriation, deregulation, ruination, large corporations, financial machinations, and the age of globalization while exploring man's godlike ability to profit off what is truly worthless. It also marks the first full production of a show premiered in last year's San Francisco Olympians Festival.

Starring Juliana Egley, Geoffrey Nolan, Carl Lucania, Brian Markley, Lauren Spencer and Brian Tryborn.

The play runs Thursday, Friday and Saturdays from March 3rd to the 26th, 8 PM curtain, at the Exit Stage Left (156 Eddy Street) in San Francisco.

Tickets range from $12.00-$25.00 and are available on Brown Paper Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/144160

Reservations strongly encouraged.

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