Project Shaw Hosts 'In Good King Charles' Day' 3/17 with Dixon & Jenkins

Project Shaw continues it's four-year program of tackling every play Shaw ever wrote. This month, In Good King Charles' Day on Monday, March 17, 2008 at 7PM at the Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South. David Staller is producer and director.

"Imagine this: it's 1680 and you're in Isaac Newton's house. In walks King Charles II in hot pursuit by all of his mistresses, including the notorious Nell Gwyn. What follows is a tremendous send-up of philosophy, playwriting, acting and an iconic argument bracing Science against the Arts. As usual, Shaw has a field day by challenging everything we hold near and dear," describe press notes.

As Shaw was a theater critic before becoming a playwright, Staller makes a point of casting members of the theatrical press in each reading. Narrating will be Alexis Soloski of the Village Voice.

The cast consists of Pam Paul as Mrs. Basham, Ed Dixon as Isaac Newton, Graham Rowat as George Fox, Daniel Jenkins as King Charles II, Nancy Anderson as Nell Gwynn, Jenn Thompson as Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland,  Hannah Cabell as Louise de Kerouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth,  Lorenzo Pisoni as James, Duke of York,  Bill Kux as Godfrey Kneller, and Mary Bacon as Queen Catherine of Braganza.

Tickets are only $20 and are available after the first of the month. Call TheaterMania at 212-352-3101 or log onto www.ProjectShaw.com