Full Cast Announced for MTC's RUINED

From Lynn Nottage, the Obie Award-winning author of such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel, comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war.  Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi (Tony Award winner Adriane Lenox), a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war.  But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life? Directing is Kate Whoriskey, who staged Ms. Nottage's Fabulation at Playwrights Horizons. RUINED is a co-production with the Goodman Theatre (Robert Falls, Artistic Director; Roche Schulfer, Executive Director), which will present the play this fall prior to the production coming to MTC.

In addition to Lenox, RUINED will also feature Quincy Tyler Bernstine (The Misanthrope), Chris Chalk (MTC's Defiance), William Jackson Harper (Queens Boulevard), Chiké Johnson (The Crucible at Steppenwolf), Russell Gebert Jones (Our Lady of 121st Street), two-time Emmyâ Award winner Kevin Mambo ("The Guiding Light"), Tom Mardirosian (Wonderful Town), and Condola Rashad (Pearl at The Kennedy Center).

Adriane Lenox is returning to MTC where she appeared in the world premiere of Doubt which subsequently transferred to Broadway and garnered her the 2005 Tony Award â for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

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