Concetta Tomei, Remy Zaken to Lead Reimagined ONE FLEA SPARE Off-Broadway

Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company has announced casting for the upcoming production of ONE FLEA SPARE, set to play Off-Broadway at the Sheen Center this fall.

Tony Award nominee Concetta Tomei (The Clean House, Othello, "Providence"), Remy Zaken (Spring Awakening), and Gordon Joseph Weiss (Fool for Love, Daphne's Dive) are set to star in this 20th year anniversary production, which marks the play's first appearance in New York City since its debut at The Public Theater in 1996.

Further casting to be announced.

ONE FLEA SPARE is a play by Naomi Wallace, whose plays, which have been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and the Middle East include In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, One Flea Spare, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Things of Dry Hours, The Fever Chart: Three Vision of the Middle East, And I and Silence, and Night is a Room.

This production will be a modern reimagining of the piece, directed by Caitlin McLeod (And I And Silence, Signature; The Malcontent, Shakespeare's Globe London; A Further Education, Hampstead Theatre), with Scenic & Projection Design by Bryce Cutler, Costume Design by Sarafina Bush, Lighting Design by Aaron Porter, Composition & Sound Design by Mark Van Hare, Props by Megan O'Leary, production managed by Matthew Mauer, and stage managed by Ed Herman.

Produced by Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company, Producing Artistic Director Joseph W. Rodriguez (The world Premiere of Tennessee Williams' A Recluse and His Guest; The Libertine) and Allison Bressi (Songbird), ONE FLEA SPARE begins performances on October 16th for a limited engagement through Sunday, November 13th.

London. The Black Plague. Four people are locked in a single room. They face the clash of social, cultural, and sexual boundaries, and are forever changed.

ONE FLEA SPARE is set in plague-ravaged 17th-century London, where a wealthy couple is preparing to flee their home when a mysterious sailor and a young girl appear sneaking into their boarded up house. Now, quarantined together for 28 days, the only thing these strangers fear more than the Plague is each other. Definitions of morality are up for grabs and survival takes many forms in this dark, fiercely intense and humorous play.

Single tickets, which are on sale now, range from $35-$50. To purchase tickets, visit web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/962742.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride / WM Photos

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