Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre Presents STREET SCENE by Elmer Rice Tonight

Brooklyn's acclaimed Brave New World Repertory Theatre is taking Elmer Rice's 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Street Scene to the streets--literally...in a special multicultural interpretation.

The site-specific production will spill out the front windows and onto the front stoop and sidewalk of a tenement in Park Slope, which will serve as the stage with the audience seated in the street, which will be closed to traffic for the day. Brave New World's multicultural production of this classic masterpiece reflects the full urban melting pot of New York City.

It takes place at Park Slope, Brooklyn, 5th Street between 8th Avenue and Prospect Park (Directions: F/G to 7th Ave, D/N/R to 9th St, 2/3/4 to Grand Army Plaza, B/Q to 7th Ave.) today, June 22nd. Two performances: 1pm and 5pm. (Rain-date: June 23rd).

Director Claire Beckman says, "With 20/20 hindsight, Brave New World's site-specific production seeks to capture the restless summer of 1929... and the sense of unease that comes-especially for those at the bottom of the pyramid like the working class people in the play-when everyone is living beyond their means. These are the people, who a year or two later, will be jobless and penniless. Now living together in cramped sweltering apartments, they spend their summer days out on the stoops... Gossiping and fretting about any impending trouble, as titillated by, as they are terrified of the big domestic drama unfolding in their own building... An infidelity...and worse."

Elmer Rice won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for his Broadway play about a New York City "village" rife with domestic quarrels, racial and ethnic tensions and economic anxiety. Street Scene was made into a movie in 1931, produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by King Vidor, and into an opera in 1946 with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Langston Hughes.

TICKET INFORMATION:

FREE (no reservation necessary) seating as available; unlimited standing room.
RESERVED FREE seating available in advance for elderly and disabled - limited.
RESERVED seating available: with online donations of $75 or more- limited.
For further info and reservations, visit: http://www.bravenewworldrep.org

Creative team for Street Scene:

Produced and Directed by: Claire Beckman

Production Manager/ Production Stage Manager: Eric H. Mayer*

Costume Designer: Martina Nevermann

Sound Designer: Benjamin Furiga

Cast: *indicates member of Actors' Equity Association Equity Approved Showcase)

ABRAHAM KAPLAN........................... Larry Gutman

GRETA FIORENTINO.........................Anita Hollander*

EMMA JONES.....................................Sandra Mills Scott*

OLGA OLSEN......................................Diana Johannesson

WILLIE MAURRANT............................Jaquan Maple (age 10)

ANNA MAURRANT..............................Sandra Fay Williams

DANIEL BUCHANAN...........................Shawn Herb

FRANK MAURRANT............................Kim Sullivan*

George Jones.................................Craig A. Grant

STEVE SANKEY...................................Kimani Shillingford*

AGNES CUSHING...............................Celeste Muniz*

Shirley Kaplan...............................Rebecca Martinez*

FILIPPO FIOBENTINO.........................Michael Iannucci*

ALICE SIMPSON..................................Christine Siracusa*

LAURA HILDEBRAND...........................Annette Silva

MARY HILDEBRAND.............................Delilah Cordero (age 10)

CHARLIE HILDEBRAND........................Carlos Ariel Aguilera (age 8)

Samuel Kaplan...............................Jeffrey Golde*

ROSE MAURRANT..............................Al-Nisa Petty

HARRY EASTER.................................John E. Morgan*

MAE JONES........................................Annemarie Agbodji

DICK MCGANN...................................Timothy Craig

VINCENT JONES................................ Temesgen Tocruray

Dr. John WILSON............................Alan Brincks

OFFICER Harry Murphy ("Policeman")....Jeffrey Roth

A MUSIC STUDENT..........................Taylor Morgan

MARSHALL James Henry................Alan Brinks

FRED CULLEN......................................Raphael Eilenberg*

FIRST NURSE-MAID..........................Naza Jana Usher

SECOND NURSE-MAID.......................Araba Brown

TWO APARTMENT HUNTERS................ Timothy Craig a nd Celeste Muniz*

PASSERS-BY and various........................ Marcos Aguilera, Serynalee Cordero, Miley Corero

Over the past ten years around Brooklyn, Brave New World Rep has carved out a site-specific niche presenting To Kill a Mockingbird on the front porches of a tree-lined Ditmas Park street, On The Waterfront on a Brooklyn barge that toured the waterfronts of New York Bay, The Tempest on the beach and boardwalk in Coney Island, and The Crucible by lantern light for a two-week run at The Old Stone House in Park Slope. BNW inaugurated Brave New World's Shakespeare Festival at The Prospect Park Pavilion with free staged readings of As You Like It. Based in Brooklyn, Brave New World Repertory has been a featured favorite of Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park band shell, presenting acclaimed productions of Fahrenheit 451, The Great White Hope and Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, based on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. BNW's recent seasons included acclaimed productions of The Long Christmas Dinner, a two-week run of The Halloween Plays in collaboration with Company XIV, Arthur Miller's The American Clock and Lynn Nottage's Fabulation at The Brooklyn Lyceum and outdoor performances of The Merry Wives of Windsor (Terrace). www.bravenewworldrep.org