The Water Engine (1978)

Written by David Mamet
Directed by Steven Schacter
Cast: Dominic Chianese, Alaric Jans, Eric Loeb, Patti LuPone, Paul Milikin, Michael J. Miller, Bill Moor, David Sabin

Charles Lang works at a menial job at a factory and lives with his blind sister Rita in an apartment in Chicago during the 1934 Century of Progress world's fair. He is also an amateur inventor, and the play centers around a machine he designs that can create electricity from distilled water. Seeking to patent his idea, he finds a lawyer, Morton Gross, in the phone book and shows him the machine, but Gross’s motivations seem to differ from Lang’s.

Theater

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre · Broadway

Closed

March 19, 1978