AL TAKES A BRIDE, Named One Of The Best Plays Of 2000, Returns To NYC in Collaboration with WEBroadway

Gary Sunshine's play about a passionate 19th-century forbidden romance will come to ART/NY's South Oxford Space Great Room, produced by Frayed Hemline Productions in collaboration with WEBroadway. Reimagined by director Kerry Flanagan - who played Al in the original 2003 Actors' Studio production and subsequent Sydney, Australia run - the production will feature Amandine Thomas as Alice, Emily Hooper as Freda, and Scott Zimmerman* as Judge Ketterson.

Over a hundred years before the U.S. Congress passes the Defense of Marriage Act, two young southern women imagine their wedding to each other. Al Takes a Bride takes the story of a real-life murder case and exposes the secret passion hidden behind it. Full of lyrical suspense, the play hinges on impossible choices, where decisions rest somewhere between dreaming and dying.

"A play has never stuck with me the way this one has. It is, unfortunately, timeless. A living photograph," Flanagan says of the piece. "To choose to deny who you are, and be embraced by a fractured society, or to choose to be authentic and be rejected by said society. We need to be reminded that this happens over and over and we always have the opportunity to change course. That is only possible if we acknowledge our shared history."

Drum Media, in Sydney, Australia described the play as "A moving examination of the true nature of love."

Al Takes A Bride will feature scenic, lighting, and sound design by Josh Iacovelli, costume design by Carolyn Toner, and assistant direction by Allison Ciuci.

Performance information is as follows:

South Oxford Space Great Room

138 S. Oxford St, Brooklyn NY 11217

December 9th, 10th, 14th, 16, & 18th at 7:30 pm

December 17th at 2:30 pm

Tickets can be purchased at www.altakesabrideplay.com.

*Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.

WEBroadway is an organization dedicated to sharing news, statistics, and opportunities for women in theater. It founded the annual NYC Women's Work Festival, which in July 2017 will produce 8 new plays and musicals by female writers at the Connelly Theater. Join the WEB at www.webroadway.org.