RUINED To Make London Bow At UK's Almeida Theatre In Spring 2010

Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize winning play RUINED which recently played its final performance after many extensions for MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street) is headed for a UK run reports London's Daily Mail.

Baz Bamigboye reports that RUINED is likely to open at The Almeida Theatre in the spring. Indhu Rubasingham plans to direct and and Baz reveals that Jenny Jules is rumored to take on the towering main role. To read the entire UK theatre update in The Daily Mail click here.

RUINED was a co-production between Manhattan Theatre Club and Chicago's Goodman Theatre.

Prior to becoming a hit at MTC, RUINED was a resounding success at the Goodman, where the production opened in November 2008, received stellar reviews from Chicago critics, and played an extended run at the Goodman's Owen Theatre prior to coming to New York.

RUINED is the most acclaimed new play of 2009, having received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, five Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding New Play, five Outer Critics Circle Award nominations including Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, two Drama League nominations, and three Lucille Lortel Award nominations.

From Lynn Nottage, the Obie Award-winning author of such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel and director Kate Whoriskey (The Piano Teacher, Fabulation), comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life?

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