Rattlestick Extends IRONBOUND New York Premiere, Starring Tony Nominee Marin Ireland

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Women's Project Theater have announced a two-week extension to the limited engagement of Ironbound at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (224 Waverly Place). Previously set to end on Sunday, April 10, the production - which opened on Wednesday, March 16 to widespread critical acclaim - will now play its final performance on Sunday, April 24, 2016.

Written by Martyna Majok (Petty Harbor) and directed by Daniella Topol (When January Feels Like Summer, Row After Row), this Top Ten Play on the 2014 Kilroys' List, stars Tony Award Nominee Marin Ireland (Reasons to be Pretty), Drama Desk Nominee Morgan Spector (A View From The Bridge, "Boardwalk Empire"), Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood), and Josiah Bania (Sarah Ruhl's Three Sisters at Yale Rep).

At a bus stop in a run-down New Jersey town, Darja, a young Polish immigrant, is done talking about feelings; it's time to talk money. Over the course of 20 years, three relationships, and three presidents, Darja negotiates for her future with men who can offer her love or security, but never both. From rising playwright Martyna Majok - recipient of the 2015-16 PoNY Fellowship, The David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, and The 2050 Fellowship from New York Theatre Workshop - Ironbound is a darkly funny, soul-stirring portrait of a woman for whom love is a luxury, and a liability, as she fights to survive in America.

Completing the creative team are Set & Lighting designer Justin Townsend (Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Costume Designer Kaye Voyce (The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses) and Sound Designer Jane Shaw (Another Side of the Island).

IRONBOUND began preview performances on Thursday, March 3, 2016 at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (224 Waverly Place) and officially opened on Wednesday, March 16, 2016. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times raved, "Martyna Majok's quietly gripping and perceptive drama - with its bone-dry humor and vivid characters - illustrates the vulnerabilities of those who are hostages to the vagaries of chance... Marin Ireland positively vibrates with the force of will, in a performance of beautiful complexity opposite Morgan Spector, who plays Tommy with live-wire magnetism, the wonderfully tender Josiah Bania as Maks, and a vibrantly funny Shiloh Fernandez as Vic, directed with economy and delicacy by Daniella Topol."

In the fall of 2015, Ironbound was produced by Round House Theatre in DC as part of The Women's Voices Theater Festival. The Washington Post called it "GRIPPING and SO ENTERTAININGLY ALIVE. You seldom see plays that are both harsh and wonderful, but that is the balance that Polish-born playwright Martyna Majok strikes in the first KNOCKOUT of the season... Majok writes with such energy and charisma that the play's characters feel vivid and real, under superb direction by Daniella Topol." Ironbound has been workshopped and featured in readings series at New Jersey Repertory Company, Summer Playwrights Festival, LARK/NNPN Roundtable, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Marin Theatre Company, NJPAC Stage Exchange and First Look Repertory of New Work at Steppenwolf Theatre Company.