<div><p> Former high school buddies Frank, Swaino, and Packie?now past their prime?meet off-hours one night in Frank’s out-of-the-way repair shop under cloudy circumstance that only Frank seems to have a handle on. As Frank breaks out the good scotch, he kicks into motion an evening that abruptly accelerates from macho posturing and grievance airing to reveal a shocking, darker purpose: Enter Chad, a preppy college jock whose arrival?to sell the townies some ecstasy, he thinks?sets this taut, twisty comic thriller on its breathless course.</p><p> <br> Upon its world premiere at Los Angeles’s Rogue Machine Theatre, <i>Small Engine Repair </i> swept every major Los Angeles theatre award including Los Angeles Drama Critic Circle Awards for Best New Production and Best Writing, and won rave reviews upon its 2013 Off-Broadway premiere at MCC/Lucille Lortel.</p></div>