“I’d been wanting to tell a soapy, lively story about revenge in a very modern setting,” playwright Steve Yockey says. “After a particularly intense holiday experience with my family, where it was clear people had lost the ability (or desire) to hear each other or communicate, I had the emotional ammunition.”
“Mercury,” the play that emerged, makes its co-world premiere at Salt Lake Acting Company this week. (It also opens in November at Stray Cat Theatre in Phoenix.)
Yockey is familiar to local audiences from “Blackberry Winter,” which SLAC staged two years ago, but the two plays couldn’t be more different, observes actor April Fossen, who played Vivienne in that production and portrays Olive in this one.