PTP/NYC (Potomac Theatre Project), in association with Middlebury College, proudly presents its 33rd repertory season, its 13th consecutive in New York City, running July 9 - August 4, 2019 in a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Atlantic Stage 2, located at 330 West 16th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues.
This season's line-up includes DOGG'S HAMLET, CAHOOT'S MACBETH, by
Tom Stoppard, directed by PTP's Co-Artistic Director
Cheryl Faraone, and HAVEL: THE PASSION OF THOUGHT, comprised of five serio-comic one act plays by
Vaclav Havel,
Harold Pinter and
Samuel Beckett, directed by PTP's Co-Artistic Director
Richard Romagnoli. Previews begin on July 9 and openings begin on July 16.
Performances are Tuesdays - Sundays at 7pm, Saturdays - Sundays at 2pm, and select Wednesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Schedule varies - for exact days and times visit
http://PTPNYC.org. Tickets are $37.50, $22.50 for students and seniors, and $20 for previews. Purchase online at
http://PTPNYC.org or by calling 1-866-811-4111.
DOGG'S HAMLET, CAHOOT'S MACBETH begins previews July 9 for a July 17 opening and runs through August 3.
Three schoolboys who speak only Dogg confuse a lorry driver who speaks only English. Dogg's Hamlet's goofy linguistic mismatches tumble into a performance of the 15 Minute Hamlet. In Cahoot's Macbeth, a forbidden living-room production of Shakespeare's play, interrupted by a wise-cracking Inspector, parallels Macbeth's usurpation of the Scottish throne before Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia. By play's end, Shakespeare explodes into Dogg.
The cast for DOGG'S HAMLET, CAHOOT'S MACBETH includes
Matthew Ball (PTP: Pity In History, Pentecost),
Denise Cormier (Broadway national tour The Graduate, Showtime's "The Affair"),
Tara Giordano (PTP: The After-Dinner Joke, Vinegar Tom, Serious Money),
Christo Grabowski (PTP: The After-Dinner Joke, Pity In History, No End of Blame),
Christopher Marshall (PTP: The Possibilities, The After-Dinner Joke, Pity In History),
Peter B. Schmitz (PTP: Lovesong of the Electric Bear, Therese Raquin),
Lucy Van Atta (PTP: The After-Dinner Joke, Serious Money, Spatter Pattern), Olivia Christie (PTP: Brecht on Brecht), Will Koch, Emily Ma, Katie Marshall,
Madeleine Russell (PTP: The After-Dinner Joke, The Possibilities), Lior Selve, Zach Varicchione and Connor Wright (PTP: Pity In History).
The production team for DOGG'S HAMLET, CAHOOT'S MACBETH includes
Mark Evancho (Set Design),
Hallie Zieselman (Lighting Design), Chris Romagnoli (Costume Design Dogg's Hamlet), Rebecca LaFon (Costume Design Cahoot's Macbeth), Sam Tompkins Martin (Props Design),
Peter B. Schmitz and
Adam Milano (Movement) and Alex Williamson (Production Stage Manager).
HAVEL: THE PASSION OF THOUGHT, comprised of five serio-comic one act plays, begins previews July 10 for a July 16 opening and runs through August 4.
In Audience, Private View and Protest, the dissident Vanek (Havel's alter ego) encounters people trapped by the moral dilemmas inherent in a Communist system. The trio of plays is bookended by
Harold Pinter's New World Order and
Samuel Beckett's Catastrophe. The latter was written in tribute to Havel.
The Vanek plays (along with all of Havel's work) were banned in Czechoslovakia, but that didn't prevent people from performing them in their living rooms, copying them surreptitiously as samizdat (illegal, faded copies of banned work), or even recording them on vinyl. One of Havel's core ideas in his philosophical essays is the concept of "living in truth," that each small compromise we make with the truth leads to larger compromises, until it snowballs into a society-wide epidemic in which lying becomes the institutional path.
The cast for HAVEL: THE PASSION OF THOUGHT includes
David Barlow (PTP: No End of Blame, Victory, The Castle),
Emily Kron (PTP: The Europeans, Sweet Tooth at Cherry Lane),
Michael Laurence (Broadway: Talk Radio, Desire Under the Elms, NBC's "Shades of Blue"),
Christopher Marshall (PTP: The Possibilities, The After-Dinner Joke, Pity In History),
Danielle Skraastad (Broadway: All My Sons, Hurricane Diane with
Women's Project & NYTW, The Architecture of Becoming with
Women's Project), Emily Ballou and Madeline Ciocci (PTP: The After-Dinner Joke).
The production team for HAVEL: THE PASSION OF THOUGHT includes
Mark Evancho (Set Design),
Hallie Zieselman (Lighting Design), Glenna Ryer (Costume Design), Sam Tompkins Martin (Props Design),
Peter B. Schmitz and
Adam Milano (Movement) and
Devin Wein (Production Stage Manager).
PTP/NYC says, "
Vaclav Havel -- poet, playwright, prisoner, president -- is a timeless voice of integrity and resistance, a virtual anomaly on the cusp of 2020, but certainly a much-needed inspiration.
Tom Stoppard, his fellow Czech, visited Havel in 1977 shortly after his release from prison, and afterwards produced a series of plays focusing on freedom of speech, freedom from censorship, and the rights of the artist; one of these is Cahoot's Macbeth. The two evenings are umbilically entwined. Moreover, the bookending of the three Vanek plays by Havel with Pinter's New World Order and Beckett's Catastrophe (written in tribute to Havel) expands and universalizes this evening, with a chilling final image of the artist as tortured celebrity. Together, using farce, linguistic games, poignancy, and liberal doses of Shakespeare, the two evenings resonate with our cultural and political moment."
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http://PTPNYC.org,
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