Frances McDormand and Maura Tierney Lead LA's NORTH ATLANTIC, Opens 2/10

Frances McDormand and Maura Tierney will be joining the cast of Los Angeles based Redcat's production of NORTH ATLANTIC. Written by James Strah, the production will run February 10th through 21st and is directed by Elizabeth LeCompte. The full cast will include McDormand, Ari Fliakos, Scott Shepherd, Kate Valk, Steve Cuiffo, Koosil-ja Hwang, Paul Lazar, Zachary Oberzan, Jenny Seastone-Stern and Tierney.

NORTH ATLANTIC takes a satiric look at the role of the military and the growing influence of technology in American culture during the late Cold War period, after Vietnam and before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The story follows an international peacekeeping force on an aircraft carrier in the NORTH ATLANTIC, tracing the cultural and sexual dynamics that rise to the fore as they carry out their top-secret mission.

Written specifically for the company by James Strahs in 1982, NORTH ATLANTIC joined a series of Wooster Group works rooted in American themes and told in the rhythms of the American vernacular-works based on texts by Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, and Gertrude Stein. A nostalgia piece, it brings the analog (pre-digital) 1980s to life through slang, song and dance.

Tickets for NORTH ATLANTIC range in price from $35 to $55. Performances take place February 10th through the 21st with performances Tuesday through Saturday at 8:30pm and 7:00pm on Sundays. Tickets may be purchased online at the theatre's website or by calling the box office at 213-237-2800.

NORTH ATLANTIC is produced by The Wooster Group. The Wooster Group is an ensemble of artists who, under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte, make work for theater, dance and media.

For more than thirty years, The Wooster Group has cultivated new forms and techniques of theatrical expression reflective of and responsive to our evolving culture, while sustaining a consistent ensemble and maintaining a flexible repertory. Wooster Group theatre pieces are constructed as assemblages of juxtaposed elements: radical staging of both modern and classic texts, found materials, films and videos, dance and movement, multi-track scoring, and an architectonic approach to theatre design.

The Wooster Group has played a pivotal role in bringing technologically sophisticated and evocative uses of sound, film and video into the realm of contemporary theatre, and in the process has influenced a generation of theatre artists nationally and internationally. The Group's work is unique because it attracts not only the theatre-going community but also artists and enthusiasts of many other cultural disciplines, such as dance, painting, music, video & film.

The Group has created all of its theatre pieces at The Performing Garage in Soho, New York City. All pieces in The Group's award winning repertory have toured widely in the US and Europe, as well as to Asia, Australia, Canada, and South America.

 

 

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