PLATH/HUGHES to Open This Weekend at Teatro LATEA

POETRY IS PRODUCTIONS presents the acclaimed duet musical "PLATH/HUGHES" by Robert Eric Shoemaker. Press opening is June 18 at 7:00 pm at Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente Center, 107 Suffolk S., New York, NY 10002; http://www.teatrolatea.org

Performances run June 18, 19, 24, 25, and 26 at 7 PM.

For tickets, please visit www.PoetryIs.org.

PLATH/HUGHES is a jazzy duet musical that follows two of the greatest poets of the past century, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, as they build their life together and their careers in poetry. It discusses the dynamic of their relationship, what they could have been like off the page, and the love, beauty, and discord of their marriage.

Based on interviews with friends and family of the poets, biographies, and their own words, PLATH/HUGHES gets as close to the bell jar as any dramatic interpretation has so far dared.

Selected critical quotes on PLATH/HUGHES:
"amazingly effective at creating an intimate, erotic, but tense atmosphere" "Hopefully, this is a work that will continue to have a long life after its remaining Chicago Musical Theatre Festival