HOUSE OF CARDS' Nathan Darrow to Lead Stolen Chair's LIKE YOU MEAN IT

Ben Farrell, Private Investigator, discovers that his cases are appearing on the pages of a popular pulp serial...but the crimes are being penned before they happen in real life. The mystery grows darker still when Farrell reads his own death in the prophetic pages.

When American Private Detective Ben Farrell gets a call from powerful publisher to find a missing writer, he's on the case. Turns out the writer isn't missing at all, but, in his popular pulp serial, Kill Me Like You Mean It, he has been penning Farrell's cases before Farrell himself has lived them. Farrell grows even more determined to solve this strange mystery when he reads the draft of the next installment: a gritty and eerily specific description of his own murder. As he steps down a rabbit-hole where truth and fiction seem entirely interchangeable, Farrell must figure out whom he can trust and how he can find his killer before his killer kills him. Kiran Rikhye's Kill Me Like You Mean It, a "film noir for the stage" is equal parts Raymond Chandler and David Lynch, a hostile but hilarious world of rapid-fire dialogue, smoking guns, and femmes fatale.

With a cast led by House of Cards' Nathan Darrow, Stolen Chair (three-time Drama Desk Award nominees for The Man Who Laughs) presents a new version of their 2007 hit film noir for the stage, Kill Me Like You Mean It. The limited run at Fourth Street Theatre (83 East 4th Street between Bowery and 2nd Ave) begins Thursday, February 5th. Tickets start at $18 and may be purchased online at www.stolenchair.org. The show runs approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.

The production will be directed by Jon Stancato (The Man Who Laughs; Potion) and features Nathan Darrow* (Edward Meechum,House of Cards), David Skeist* (Richard Foreman's Old Fashioned Prostitutes), Natalie Hegg* (Potion), Sarah Skeist (Frakenstein at New York Theater Workshop) , and Jon Froehlich* (The Man Who Laughs) with an original, 1940's-inspired score composed by multi-instrumentalist Sean Cronin (Potion). The creative team includes Set Design by Michael Minahan (The Man Who Laughs), Lighting Design by David Bengali (Tectonic Theater Project's Square Peg Round Hole), Costume Design by Angela Harner (The Wholehearted), Props by Aviva Meyer (The Man Who Laughs), and Fight Direction by Noah Schultz (Potion). *Appearing courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association.

Stolen Chair's production of Kill Me Like You Mean It originally premiered with Horse Trade Theater Group at The Red Room in 2007 and was published by United Stages the following year: