Opening Night Gala: Friday night in September, 7 p.m. $100.
Catered champagne reception before and after the show

Thursday Performances: Pay What You Wish
Friday Performances: Talk-Back with the Company
Sunday Performances: Talk-Back with Guest Commentator

Theater Grottesco will perform the hilarious "The Richest Deadman Alive!" September through October 2009 in the Stieren Hall of the Santa Fe Opera. The company is known for boisterous, joyous, cutting-edge physical theater.

The play, created by Theater Grottesco, is the story of an average middle class couple that accidentally discovers the road to riches. They stumble along it the best they can, with some dubious results. The play speaks directly to social and economic conditions, and is presented as a broad farce to poke fun at the universal human foible of greed.

William Walden, a hapless asthmatic, is locked out of the house one spring morning when the flowers are particularly aggressive. He succumbs, but sneezes himself back to life when flowers are placed in the open coffin at his funeral. His joy quickly vanishes when his wife informs him that the insurance money has already been collected and if they simply create a new identity for William, they can take their dream vacation. They lose all their scam money while on vacation, one thing leads to another and by play's end, the Walden's have discovered insurance fraud, preying on society's weakest members.