By Adam Hetrick
13 Nov 2009

The Play Company will stage the world premiere of of Kia Corthron's A Cool Dip in the Barran Saharan Crick as part of its tenth anniversary season.

Chay Yew has been announced to direct the premiere production about an African engineer taken with the broken ecology of South America. Performances will begin March 4, 2010 and officially open March 28, 2010 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre. Playwrights Horizons and the Culture Project co-produce with The Play Company.

Following A Cool Dip will be the U.S. premiere of Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada's comedy Enjoy, under the direction of Dan Rothenberg. Enjoy, which centers on Japanese youth culture facing a changing economic reality, is set to run March 27-April 25, 2010 at 59E59 Theaters.

A staged reading of Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri's Invasion will be presented in May of 2010 and author Alex Prud'homme will read from his book "Clean, Clear and Cold: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century," at a date to be announced.

The Obie-winning Play Company presented the New York premiere of Lloyd Suh's American Hwangap earlier this year.

For further information visit Playco.org, or phone (212) 398-2977.