Red Bull 'Revelation Readings' Tix On-Sale Now, Begin Oct.29
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 26, 2007
Red Bull Theater, artistic director Jesse Berger, the company that brought last season's sizzling revival of The Revenger's Tragedy, continues their fall season with Revelation Readings, the Obie Award-winning reading series exploring new and classic plays of heightened language.
Tickets are only $20, or $10 for students/industry. Performances at Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street). Tickets on sale now at www.ticketcentral.com or 212-279-4200
Monday October 29
The Just by Albert
Camus, adapted by Anthony Clarvoe. Step inside a terrorist cell circa 1905 and
peer into the hearts and minds of young people willing to kill and die for what
they believe. Directed by Ethan McSweeny
(The Best Man); featuring Obie Award-winner
Michael Stuhlbarg (The Pillowman),
Neal Huff (Take Me Out), John
Seidman, Meg Fee, and Tony Award-winner Ellen McLaughlin (Angels in America).
Monday November 12
The Rover by Aphra
Behn. A trio of English rakes looking
for kicks in 17th century Spain
meets a trio of Spanish sisters looking for husbands at carnival in this
raucous and raunchy restoration comedy by the first woman to make her living as
a playwright. Directed by Eleanor
Holdridge, featuring Daniel Breaker (Pericles,
Passing Strange) and Carla Harting (Eurydice)
Monday November 26
The Lady's Not for
Burning by Christopher Fry. In a
world of hypocrisy, post-war superstition and witch-hunting, a man returns from
war to find love and redemption in spite of his circumstances—a hilariously
chaotic mix of characters wrapped up in a poetic tangle of fun. Directed by Tony Award-Winner Joseph Hardy,
featuring Lynn Redgrave and Richard Easton.
Monday January 7
Bertolt Brecht's Edward
II, a one-night only reading of Brecht's radical 20th-century revision of
the Elizabethan classic, directed by Michael Sexton, featuring members from Red
Bull Theater's concurrent production of Marlowe's play
Monday January 14
Don't Fuck With Love,
a contemporary spin on Alfred de Musset's love tragicomedy by Kay Matschullat,
interpolating Abelard, Heloise, instant messaging, and the power elite,
directed by Lear deBessonet.
Monday January 21
The Cardinal by
James Shirley, directed by Carl Forsman, starring Roger Rees and Philip
Goodwin. The last of the great Elizabethan dramatists explores corruption in
the church through a wonderfully tangled web of deceit, plots, love affairs,
poison and death.
Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director) is the not-for-profit company dedicated to the presentation of vital and imaginative productions of heightened language plays and to the development of new plays written in a similar vein. With a special focus on the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Red Bull Theater aspires to challenge the intellect and engage the imagination of today's theatergoers through language-based, company-created, resonantly provocative stagings of great classic stories. www.redbulltheater.com
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