Craig Wright's 'Lady' presented by the Asolo

By John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic
In print: Thursday, May 8, 2008

Frank Atura | Special to the Times

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Craig Wright divides his time between television and theater. Actually, television has been getting more of Wright in the past several years, as he has written episodes of Six Feet Under, Lost, Brothers and Sisters and his own show, Dirty Sexy Money. Still, the playwright continues to have a presence onstage, with popular plays like The Pavilion, which was performed last fall by Hat Trick Theatre in Tampa.

The Asolo Theatre is staging a recent Wright play, Lady, with, from left, David Breitbarth, Douglas Jones and James Clarke as lifelong friends on a hunting trip in the woods. One of the men is a U.S. congressman who reveals he is changing his political party and his position on the Iraq war.

In a program note, Wright says his play is "about unfaithfulness: unfaithfulness to spouses, unfaithfulness to friends, unfaithfulness to patriotic ideals and unfaithfulness to the simple innocence of life's desire to live.''

Lady, directed by Hal Brooks, opens at 8 p.m. Friday and runs through June 1 in the Cook Theatre of the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, Sarasota. $33-$35. (941) 351-8000 or toll-free

1-800-361-8388 or www.asolo.org.