Atlantic's Celebration and The Room extends through January 21
By: BWW News Desk Dec. 09, 2005
Atlantic Theater Company (Artistic Director, Neil Pepe; Managing Director, Andrew Hamingson) is proud to announce a two week extension of its 20th Anniversary Season double bill production of Harold Pinter's Celebration and The Room due to high ticket demand following strong reviews. Originally scheduled through January 8, 2006, Celebration and The Room has now been extended two weeks through Saturday, January 21, 2006.
Harold Pinter, one of America and Britain's most celebrated and influential playwright and poets, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October for his prolific body of work. His publisher Stephen Page will accept the prize on Pinter's behalf at a Stockholm award ceremony on Saturday. Beginning with his breakthrough play The Caretaker in 1959, he was responsible for the creation of a spare language of verbal evasion and menace, both unspoken and vividly expressed. The Swedish Academy cited "Pinter restored theater to its basic elements – an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue where people are at the mercy of each other and pretense crumbles."
Harold Pinter's most recent (Celebration) and first play (The Room) complement each other in this rarely staged double-bill. CELEBRATION opens on a wedding anniversary in an ultra-trendy restaurant, with three successful couples jockeying for the upper hand. In contrast, THE ROOM descends into a nightmare world of insecurity and uncertainty in a shabby one-room London flat. Although separated by more than 40 years, both plays resonate with the human desperation to find safe haven in a threatening world.
CELEBRATION features Atlantic Company members Kate Blumberg, David Pittu and guest artists Betsy Aidem, Patrick Breen, Brennan Brown, Phillip Goodwin, Carolyn McCormick, Thomas Jay Ryan and Christa Scott-Reed.
THE ROOM features Atlantic Company members Kate Blumberg, Mary Beth Peil, David Pittu and guest artists Earle Hyman, Peter Maloney and Thomas Jay Ryan.
Celebration and The Room began previews on November 16 and officially opened on December 5 at Atlantic Theater Company (336 West 20th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues).
CELEBRATION and THE ROOM will play Tuesday through Friday at 8, Saturday at 2 & 8 and Sundays at 3 p.m. All tickets are $50.00 and are available by calling Telecharge at 212-239-6200 (Telecharge.com).
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