Photo Flash: Signature Theatre's BLOOD KNOT In Rehearsal

Signature Theatre will present their new production of BLOOD KNOT, written and directed by Athol Fugard. The production will feature Tony Award-nominee Colman Domingo (The Scottsboro Boys) as Zachariah and Obie Award-winner Scott Shepherd (Gatz) as Morris.

BLOOD KNOT, which is the first play in the Residency One: Athol Fugard Series, runs January 31 – March 11, 2012 with a February 16th opening night. BLOOD KNOT is the first of three Fugard shows Signature will present this season, and is the inaugural production in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Company’s new Frank Gehry-designed home Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenues).

Between patchwork walls in a one-room shack, two biracial South African brothers grapple with crippling poverty and lonely isolation. Morris, the punctilious force that keeps their room tidy, is light-skinned enough to pass for white, but dark-skinned Zach feels imprisoned by his job at a whites-only park. When they find themselves on some dangerous new ground, the brothers must come face to face with the blood knot between them. Athol Fugard’s revolutionary breakthrough play is a searing indictment of apartheid and one of his most celebrated works.

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Photo Flash: Erik Carter

Scott Shepherd and Colman Domingo

Athol Fugard

Colman Domingo and Scot Shepherd

Colman Domingo and Scott Shepherd

Athol Fugard

Colman Domingo

Erika Mallin, Athol Fugard

Scott Shepherd, James Houghton, Colman Domingo

Colman Domingo