59E59 Presents NY Premiere of White's 'Terre Haute' Jan 13-Feb 15

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is proud to announce the NY premiere of acclaimed writer Edmund White's play TERRE HAUTE, directed by George Perrin and starring Peter Eyre and Nick Westrate.

Produced by nabokov and Karl Sydow, TERRE HAUTE begins previews on Tuesday, January 13 for a limited engagement through Sunday, February 15. Opening Night is Sunday, January 18 at 7:15 PM.

The performance schedule is Tuesday - Friday at 8:15 PM; Saturday at 2:15 PM and 8:15 PM; and Sunday at 3:15 PM. Please note that the performance on Sunday, January 18 is at 7:15 PM; there is no 3:15 PM performance. TERRE HAUTE performs at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison). Single tickets are $35 ($24.50 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.ticketcentral.com. For more information, visit www.59e59.org.

A famous author comes face-to-face with America's most notorious terrorist. As the clock ticks on death row, the bond between the two men grows.

A scorching new play from one of America's greatest living writers inspired by Gore Vidal's famous essays on Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh in a production transferring from London's West End. (The characters and events portrayed in TERRE HAUTE are fictional.)

The production stars Peter Eyre (Waste, Don Carlos, Richard II) and Nick Westrate (Moon For The Misbegotten, The Vietnamization of New Jersey).

The Daily Telegraph hailed TERRE HAUTE as "Topical, transgressive and thrillingly dramatic." The Guardian praised renowned stage actor Peter Eyre, saying "Eyre's exquisitely understated performance is a masterclass."

Edmund White (playwright) is the author of twenty books including novels, short stories, essays, travel books and biographies. His magisterial biography of Jean Genet won the National Book Critics' Circle Award and his short biography of Marcel Proust was a best seller. His trilogy of autobiographical novels - A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony - have become classics of contemporary gay literature. White has been called America's Marcel Proust and Le Monde compared him to Henry James. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an officer in the French Order of Arts and Letters. He lived in Paris for 16 years in the 1980s and 90s and his books - Our Paris and The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris - have won him a wide popular audience. He teaches creative writing at Princeton and lives in New York. His memoir, My Lives, was published last year to much acclaim. Terre Haute is his third play, developed at the Sundance Festival in Utah. Two years ago White published a new novel, Hotel de Dream, and last year a short life of Arthur Rimbaud.

George Perrin (director) is co-founder and artistic director of nabokov. He is Creative Associate at The Bush Theatre, London and was Trainee Associate Director of Paines Plough and Watford Palace Theatre. He was the first recipient of the Genesis Director's Award from the Young Vic, London and is a member of Old Vic New Voices. George trained on the Royal National Theatre Studio Director's Course. For nabokov: Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan (nabokov Arts Club); Public Displays of Affection by Joel Horwood (LATITUDE Festival); Terre Haute by Edmund White (West End, National Tour and Assembly Rooms Edinburgh) and Camarilla by Van Badham (Old Red Lion London/Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Other directing credits include: Sea Wall by Simon Stephens (The Bush); House of Agnes by Levi David Addai (Oval House, Paines Plough); The Dirt Under The Carpet by Rona Munro (Oran Mor Glasgow & Shunt Vaults London, Paines Plough); Crazy Love by Che Walker (Oran Mor Glasgow & Shunt Vaults London, Paines Plough); My Little Heart Dropped In Coffee by Duncan Macmillan, Babies by Katie Douglas (Paines Plough/Young Vic Wild Lunch). ###

 

 

 

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