Lower Ninth - Acting Edition

THE STORY: Two men and a corpse are stranded on a roof after a terrible storm. E-Z is a rebellious young man brimming with anger. Malcom is a reformed addict who has found strength through religion. Sharing the roof with them is the corpse of Lowboy-a neighborhood gang member-who drowned in the rising flood waters surrounding the house. Over the course of two stultifying days in the sun, Malcom and E-Z must battle heat, hunger, their pasts and each other. They find inventive ways to pass the time as they wait for help to arrive, but as the hours wear on their situation becomes increasingly desperate. At one point, E-Z is so dehydrated that he hallucinates Lowboy speaking to him from the dead. Soon it becomes difficult to determine what is real and what is not. Ultimately Malcom and E-Z discover their only salvation is through each other. LOWER NINTH is an exploration of faith, survival and mutual redemption.