The English Bride at The Road Theatre Company

The play is the recipient of the Susan Glaspell Prize and will have its official world premiere at the Centenary Stage in New Jersey in April, 2013. The work will also be performed in November of this year at Theatre Exile in Philadelphia, PA as part of a “rolling world premiere.”

DIJO is honored to be able to have the rights to perform a full production of the piece as a Writers’ Workshop. The English Bride is based on true events, which events also gave rise to the question raised by airport authorities—“Did you pack your own luggage?” In the fictionalized version, playwright Lucile Lichtblau creates three intriguing characters—an Englishwoman lonely for companionship as she sees her life passing by; a terrorist whose confidence and charm spark a love affair between he and the Englishwoman ; and a Mossad agent on the trail of both, who believes no one and nothing can be trusted.

Director Ed Giron, who had the good fortune of working with the playwright in an early reading of the work also plays Dov, the Mossad agent. Eileen, the working class woman from Leeds and bride to be who is eager for vindication is portrayed by Leslie Gangl. William Waxman portrays Ali, the charming and manipulative terrorist.