Berkshire Theatre Group & New Neighborhood's 'I SAW MY NEIGHBOR' Begins Next Week

Berkshire Theatre Group and Artistic Director/CEO Kate Maguire are pleased to announce the world premiere co-production with New Neighborhood of I Saw My Neighbor On the Train and I Didn't Even Smile by Suzanne Heathcote, directed by Jackson Gay. Opening night is Saturday, July 18. Preview performances begin on Thursday, July 16 at 7pm and the production closes Saturday, August 15 at 8pm.

Tickets to I Saw My Neighbor On the Train and I Didn't Even Smile are $50, all preview tickets are $42. To purchase tickets, contact the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street, Pittsfield by calling 413-997-4444, or online at www.berkshiretheatregroup.org. Ticket Offices are open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturdays 10am-2pm or on any performance day from 10am until curtain.

Artistic Director/CEO Kate Maguire says, "We are teaming up with some of the most exciting voices in American theatre, including playwright Suzanne Heathcote, director Jackson Gay, and BTG artist Keira Naughton, to present the world premiere of I Saw My Neighbor On The Train And I Didn't Even Smile. We are delighted to partner with New Neighborhood on this funny and insightful look at a very contemporary American family."

Heathcote says, "It's a play about the contradictions in people, and how flawed we all are and how shy we all are in our own weird ways."

The cast of I Saw My Neighbor On the Train and I Didn't Even Smile is Keira Naughton (who most recently directed her father, James Naughton, in the world premiere of Cedars at BTG) Linda Gehringer, Adam Langdon, Adam O'Byrne, Andrew Rothenberg and Ariana Venturi.

I Saw My Neighbor On the Train and I Didn't Even Smile features original music by Ryan Kattner, scenic and lighting design by Paul Whitaker, costumes by Jessica Ford, sound by Broken Chord, projections by Nicholas Hussong, and dramaturgy by Catherine Sheehy.

About the Play: This is Rebecca's life: she wakes up, eats a sensible breakfast, wraps herself in three layers, drives to the train station, commutes to her bookkeeping job in the city, watches the clock, goes home, cooks dinner for her domineering mother, watches TV, and falls asleep grieving for her dead dog. Every day is the same as the next until Rebecca's underachieving brother begs her to take care of her troubled niece-and she does what she always does-she lets it happen. In an unforgivingly bitter month, three generations of women with nothing in common, except a deeply buried ache, try to keep the cold away.

About New Neighborhood: Born out of the Low Brow/Hi Fi 2014 Yale Rep production of These Paper Bullets! and the unintended financial backing of Rupert Murdoch, New Neighborhood is a theater and television company whose sincerity and authenticity are so combustible, it cannot be housed under one roof for too long without doing severe structural damage. With new work, bruised work, all-singing, all-dancing, foul-mouthed musical work, New Neighborhood seeks to harvest the organs of its audience and sell them back to their owners within the time houselights dim and rise, or the DVR records and you delete. Founded in 2015 by a collective of artists scattered across the country, New Neighborhood is a particular ordinance of Actors, Designers, Directors, Dramaturgs (all the hot D's!), Musicians, Graphic Novelists, Producers, Writers, Widows, Widowers (all the lousy W's) and bad, browned-on-both-sides Balladeers. New Neighborhood finds a show, produces the sh*t outta it, and disappears into a cloud of train.

For more information about New Neighborhood, please visit www.newneighborhood.net.

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