Natural Shocks, by Lauren Gunderson

Statistics-obsessed insurance agent Angela races into her basement to escape an oncoming storm. Trapped below ground, she confronts the events and relationships of her life—the heartbreaking, the hair-raising, and the hilarious—in a narrative that hurtles from pound cake to Disney World to Best Buy to Hamlet to her bold plan for a beautiful future. Resilient, funny, optimistic, dishonest, and not sorry for herself, Angela cracks wise, lies, and eventually lets the audience in on the biggest secret of all—the truth—as she waits for the storm to break.

“It’s all statistics until it’s happening to you. Then it’s happening 100 percent.”

CONTENT WARNING: Domestic violence, gun violence, natural disasters, homeowners’ insurance jokes

April 2–12, Thursdays–Sundays, 7:30pm and 2pm (see specific dates for info)

$30 general admission; Thursdays half-price ($15); 10% off for ATA Members with code NSHOCKS-ATA10

Featuring Trinity Smith Keel as Angela; with original live sound by Franklin Keel

Directed by Melon Wedick