59E59 Theaters Announces Fall 2008 Line Up
By: Robert Diamond Aug. 08, 2008
59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) announced their line up of shows for the Fall 2008 season. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison). Ticket price varies. Tickets to all shows at 59E59 Theaters are available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or online at www.ticketcentral.com. For more information, visit www.59E59.org.
The FIRST IRISH FESTIVAL is the first festival celebrating Irish theater in New York City. Launching at 59E59 Theaters during the month of September, and produced by Origin Theatre Company, it features the New York premieres of three contemporary Irish plays as well as the world premiere of an evening of five short works. The FIRST IRISH FESTIVAL features the work of critically acclaimed Irish theater companies from New York, Boston and Washington, DC. Saturday, September 6 – Sunday, September 28
END OF LINES: An evening of five short plays inspired by journeys on the NYC subway, written by Gary Duggan, Abbie Spellen, Ursula Rani Sarma, Pat Kinevane and Morna Regan. Directed by David Sullivan, Julia Gibson, George C Heslin, Fiana Toibin and Alyse Rothman. Produced by Origin Theatre Company (NYC). Part of the FIRST IRISH FESTIVAL.
DISCO PIGS by Edna Walsh, directed by Dan Brick and Linda Murray. Starring Madeline Carr and Rex Daugherty. Produced by Solas Nua (Washington, DC). Part of the FIRST IRISH FESTIVAL.
Pig and Runt are two 17-year-olds who have grown up sharing everything: birthday, language, and worldview. But at that moment when pop songs and life-changing org*sms flash by and last forever, their friendship begins to implode on the road to adulthood. DISCO PIGS marks the NY premiere of the Washington, DC-based Solas Nua, which Peter Marks of the Washington Post called, "the most vital new troupe in D.C." and was voted the Best New Company by the Washington City Paper in 2008.
MOJO MICKYO, written by Owen Mc Cafferty, directed by Stephen Russell. Starring Colin Hamell and Derry Woodhouse. Produced by Tir NA Theatre (Boston, MA). Part of the FIRST IRISH FESTIVAL.
A vibrant and faced-paced Tale of Two boys growing up in Belfast during the summer of 1970. Playing headers, torturing a cantankerous old man, building huts, spitting from cinema balconies and re-enacting Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, MOJO MICKYO is a classic coming-of-age story about two boys whose innocence is ultimately betrayed by communal hatred.
Tuesday, September 23 – Sunday, September 28
LOVE, PEACE, AND ROBBERY by Liam Heylin, directed by Kerry Waters Lucas. Starring Matthew Keenan, Eric Lucas and Bruce Rauscher. Produced by The Keegan Theatre (Washington, DC). Part of the FIRST IRISH FESTIVAL.
Uproarious and bittersweet, Heylin's play spins the escapades of Gary and Darren- both straight out of prison. Living with a curfew and the broken pieces of their pasts, they confront life back on the streets of Cork. Two guys who prove that there may actually be honor among thieves. Week of September 29 – Week of October 13
THE NIGHT CARTER WAS BAD produced by Kids With Guns (NYC)
THE NIGHT CARTER WAS BAD is a dramatic comedy about the misbehavior and haphazard love life of a commitment-phobe named Carter. Wednesday, October 1 – Sunday, October 19
OUTSIDE INN by Andreas Jungwirth, directed by Melanie Dreyer. Starring Roger Grunwald, Markus Hirnigel and Gabriele Schafer. Produced by International Culture Lab (New York, New York).
OUTSIDE INN, a murder mystery that takes place on three continents. Paul, a disillusioned German civic engineer unintentionally participates in the death of his boss. Rather than going to the police, Paul runs away to a small town in Arizona. With his mistress by his side, Paul steals the identity of his former boss and flees across the Mexican border. The husband and wife Paul and his mistress leave behind must face a future alone and a past that continues to haunt them. MADE IN POLAND: A Festival of New Polish Plays, from Week of October 20 – Week of November 24
This six-week celebration of Polish Theater features the US Premieres of three plays from Poland's leading playwrights. Presented by the Polish Cultural Institute. Wednesday, October 22 – Sunday, November 9
THE FILES, written and directed by Ewa Wojciak and Marcin Keszycki. Starring Ewa Wójciak, Marcin Kęszycki, Adam Borowski and Tadeusz Janiszewski. Produced by Theater of the Eighth Day (Poznań ,Poland). Part of the MADE IN POLAND festival. Founded in 1964, Theatre of the Eighth Day unwittingly became Poland's foremost political theater of opposition under the Communist regime. Kept under surveillance by the Secret Police, plagued by the authorities, and accused of criminality, the theater managed to create some of the most important Polish performances of the 1970s. THE FILES was inspired by the theater's discovery of a Secret Police report on one of their early plays. The author's intellectually over-ambitious analysis of the play's subversive tendencies was so grotesquely uncomprehending that it was hilarious. Using Secret Police reports kept on the theater's members from the 1970s, as well as the company's own personal letters from that period, and juxtaposted with portions of the performances to which the police reports refer, THE FILES draws back the Iron Curtain to give audiences to a striking look at living and working through an oppressive government regime. Performed in English. Wednesday, October 29 – Sunday, November 30
MADE IN POLAND by Przemyslaw Wojcieszek, directed by Jackson Gay. Produced by The Play Company (New York, New York). Part of the MADE IN POLAND FESTIVAL.
MADE IN POLAND is an exuberant, funny and fierce play about a rebellious young man furiously searching for how to live in the new, post-communist Poland. Along the way he turns to his priest and his teacher for guidance, gets entangled with gangsters, and meets a girl. Jackson Gay (Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Scarcity) directs the American premiere of this popular hit by one of Poland's foremost young theatre artists. Week of November 10 – November 30
THE SANDBOX and THE FIRST TIME, two one-acts by Michal Walczak. Piotr Kruszynski directs The Sandbox; Marcy Arlin directs The First Time. Produced by Immigrants Theater Company (New York, New York). Part of the MADE IN POLAND festival. THE SANDBOX is about a couple's inability to articulate emotions, except through the language of globally mass-marketed brand names and advertising. While sitting in a sandbox, Him and Her try to figure out how to love each other despite their linguistic challenges In THE FIRST TIME He and She try to have a sexual relationship, but are thwarted at each step by the weather, family, hunger, and the punctured illusions of a post-communist society. These two comedic plays, both exploring different stages of relationships, are under laid with that particular brand of cynicism and absurdism found in Eastern European theater, updated for a newly global society. Friday, November 28 – Sunday, January 4
IMPROBABLE FREQUENCY, A musical comedy by Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter. Produced by Rough Magic (Dublin, Ireland).
This hugely entertaining and successful musical comedy, IMPROBABLE FREQUENCY —winner of three Irish Times Theatre Awards including Best Production and Best Director— is a joyous surreal satire that lifts the lid on Ireland's beloved neutrality and cuts to the heart of the tempestuous affair with its nearest neighbor – England! Based in Dublin in 1941 and inspired by real events, IMPROBABLE FREQUENCY brings three historical figures together as elements in a surreal series of absurd plots to overthrow the British, undermine the Nationalists and subvert the forces of nature. Wednesday, December 3 – Sunday, January 4
NEW HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION written and directed by Alan Hruska. Produced by Victory Theater Company with Rock and a Hard Place and Red Horse Productions (Los Angeles, CA).
Two married couples approaching forty reunite in the lake district town where they all grew up. It's been fifteen years, but old rivalries and passions as well as long-buried secrets ignite, and re-entangle, their relationships. A testy fusion of humor and mystery drives this world-premiere comedy from Alan Hruska.
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