Islanders produce independent play

Island actors Nathan Whitehouse and Maxwell Levit are self-producing the 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist play “Thom Pain,” written by acclaimed playwright Will Eno, with shows slated for Friday, June 12 and June 19 and Saturday, June 13 and June 20 at the Bainbridge Grange Hall (10340 Madison Ave.).

Island actors Nathan Whitehouse and Maxwell Levit are self-producing the 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist play “Thom Pain,” written by acclaimed playwright Will Eno, with shows slated for Friday, June 12 and June 19 and Saturday, June 13 and June 20 at the Bainbridge Grange Hall (10340 Madison Ave.).

“Thom Pain” sees the titular character trying — and often failing — to perform a one-man show.

It is a story of love, a dog, loss and bees.

Oh, and there’s a raffle.

Levit moved to Bainbridge Island in January to join Whitehouse in artistic endeavors, including the mounting of this play, which they both love, despite having encountered it separately.

Whitehouse performed it once before, in 2008 while attending Hampshire College, where he originally met Levit in 2010.

Levit worked on the play during a four-month term at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in the Fall of 2014.

Whitehouse has often been seen onstage at Bainbridge Performing Arts, having appeared in the heavily acclaimed “The Kentucky Cycle” under the direction of Kate Carruthers, “Actor’s Nightmare” in the 2015 One Act Festival under Dinah Manoff, and as a regular performer with The Edge Improv. Levit will appear as Demetrius  in the BPA Shakespeare Society production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in July.

Levit and Whitehouse will take turns performing the one-man play on alternating nights; each actor’s version having been directed by the other through close collaboration.

Tickets are $10 each. Visit www.facebook.com/ThomPainBI to learn more. The show contains adult themes and language and is not recommended for younger audiences.