Schwimmer and Ivanek Star in Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Revival, Spring '06
By: BWW News Desk Dec. 07, 2005
"Upon its original production in 1954, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial was immediately embraced as one of the first pieces to help audiences grapple with the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half-century, Herman Wouk's story of a naval lieutenant on trial for mutiny in wartime has achieved the status of a modern classic," state press notes.
Schwimmer is co-founder of Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company, where he has acted in and directed many productions including The Master and Margarita, West, The Jungle, Eye of the Beholder, The Odyssey, The Idiot, and his own adaptation of Studs Terkel's RACE: How Blacks And Whites Think And Feel About The American Obsession. He starred in the Los Angeles premieres of Roger Kumble's D Girl and Turnaround, as well as Warren Leight's Glimmer Brothers in Williamstown. Earlier this year, he made his London debut starring in Neil LaBute's new play Some Girl(s) at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End. Television and film credits include Band of Brothers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Uprising, Six Days Seven Nights, Apt Pupil, The Pallbearer and Friends, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor.
Ivanek recently starred in the acclaimed Broadway production of The Pillowman. He is a two-time Tony nominee for Outstanding Featured Actor for his work in Two Shakespearean Actors and Brighton Beach Memoirs; he received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor for his work in Cloud 9. Other notable theatre credits include The Glass Menagerie, Loot, and The Survivor on Broadway; The Cherry Orchard (dir. Peter Brook) and A Map of the World off-Broadway; and bash in London. Film and television credits include Dogville, Black Hawk Down, Hannibal, Unfaithful, Dancer in the Dark, Donnie Brasco, "The West Wing," "24," "Oz," and "Homicide: Life on the Street," among many others.
Zaks has received four Tony Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, an Obie Award, and an NAACP Image Award nomination. He has directed more than 30 New York productions, including his Tony-Award winning direction for Six Degrees of Separation, Guys and Dolls, House of Blue Leaves, and Lend Me A Tenor.
Originally published as a novel in 1951, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial won Herman Wouk the Pulitzer Prize, selling millions of copies and becoming a classic story of American history. Its initial Broadway production in 1954, written by Wouk, ran for over a year. That same year, the novel was adapted (separately) into a successful movie. Two of Wouk's later novels about World War II, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, formed the basis for two successful 1980s television miniseries. Among his other novels are Marjorie Morningstar, Youngblood Hawke, The Hope, The Glory, and A Hole in Texas. Wouk has also written two studies of Judaism and Jewish life, This Is My God and The Will to Live On. Wouk himself served aboard two destroyer-minesweepers, the U.S.S. Zane and the U.S.S. Southhard, from 1942 to 1946.
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial will have a set designed by John Lee Beatty, costumes by William Ivey Long, lighting by Paul Gallo, and sound design by Peter Fitzgerald. The producing team is Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, and Debra Black.
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