Cast Set for Graham Greene's TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT at Keen Company

Today Keen Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein announced the cast for the upcoming production of Graham Greene's Travels With My Aunt.

Mr. Silverstein directs a cast that features Daniel Jenkins (Big River - Tony Award Nomination, Golden Boy, Angels in America, Mary Poppins, Billy Elliot); Jay Russell (End of the Rainbow, The Play that I Wrote, Our Town directed by David Cromer, The Normal Heart - Public); Thomas Jay Ryan (The Temperamentals - Drama Desk Ensemble award; 10 out of 12 - Soho Rep; A Month in the Country -CSC; Vibrator Play - Lincoln Center Theater; "Henry Fool" trilogy with Hal Hartly, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind); and Jonathan Spivey (Act One - Lincoln Center Theater; His Girl Friday - Barrington Stage; Picasso at the Lapin Agile - Long Wharf). The design team includes Steven Kemp (scenic), Jen Paar (costume), Josh Bradford (lighting), and Bart Fasbender (sound).

Performances for this limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues) will begin September 29 and continue through November 14th only, with opening night set for October 15th. Performances will be Tuesday through Thursday evenings at 7pm; Fridays at 8pm; Saturdays at 2pm & 8pm; and Sunday matinees at 3pm. Tickets will be $61.25 (plus a $1.25 Restoration Fee) or $80 for Premium Seating.

"I am thrilled to present Keen's 16th season. This season, we will present two very different plays in uniquely different styles, each of which makes us contemplate fundamental questions about identity. In the fall, I will direct Giles Havergal's wonderfully theatrical adaptation of Graham Greene 's comedic novel Travels With My Aunt and I am thrilled to welcome back Thomas Jay Ryan, with whom I collaborated with on The Temperamentals, as well as Daniel Jenkins, a Keen alum I have always wanted to work with," said Silverstein.

"I'm so delighted that Aunt Augusta's travels have brought her back to New York... She is very much looking forward to meeting her old friends and making new ones," said Giles Havergal. Celebrated author Graham Greene's moving comic novel comes bursting to life in a hilarious and witty adaptation by Giles Havergal, former Artistic Director of Glasgow's iconic Citizens Theatre. London's Evening Standard called the play "cheekily vivacious, clever and funny" when it was revived at The Menier Chocolate Factory in 2013.

Henry Pulling, a mild-mannered retired banker, leads a quiet life and never strays too far from his home in Southwood, England. But when his eccentric and outrageous Aunt Augusta suddenly appears in his life with mysterious information about his past, Henry is drawn into a series of exotic international adventures. Henry, Aunt Augusta and over 25 of the characters they meet along the way are brilliantly and inventively portrayed by just four actors who switch identities, nationalities, ages and genders in this exciting theatrical escapade. The New York Times called it "A triumph of theatrical style," Variety declared it "thoroughly engrossing evening enormously appealing" and Daily Mail called it "raucous role play."

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