ACTUALLY - Geffen Playhouse
ACTUALLY - Geffen Playhouse
#1ACTUALLY - Geffen Playhouse
Posted: 3/29/17 at 12:23pm
Jus caught the fact that this play, going up in LA next month, is a co-production with Williamstown Theater Festival (which certainly lends quite a validation to this new work)
I haven't read any casting announcements yet but curious to who will be cast - given that its a month out I'd imagine that this would be made public?
Also, in recent memory, I can't recall a time where a new play has had its premiere BEFORE appearing at WTF. Curious as to how that all works.
Sounds like it's an engaging play if it's being co-produced by two wonderful theater companies.
#2ACTUALLY - Geffen Playhouse
Posted: 3/29/17 at 12:34pm
Manhattan Theatre Club recently added this play to their Off Broadway season as well, beginning in October. They have been added as a co-producer. This is perhaps not surprising since Mandy Greenfield, WTF's current artistic director, was formerly MTC's artistic producers; in recent years a number of shows have gone from WTF to MTC.
It's playing a 2-week engagement at Williamstown in August. There have been other plays that have premiered before being produced at Williamstown.
I don't know who has been cast in the Geffen production or whether all three productions will have the same cast. I saw the casting breakdown, and it's a two-character play--a Jewish woman and an African-American man, both early 20s to play college freshmen.
Actually at MTC
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#3ACTUALLY - Geffen Playhouse
Posted: 3/29/17 at 12:38pm
thank you for that. now I remember the Sam Shepard ended up at MTC a few years ago after WTF
sounds interesting to say the least AND that intimate space at The Geffen (and the WTF Nikko stage) are wonderful for what sounds like a two hander.
#4ACTUALLY - Geffen Playhouse
Posted: 3/29/17 at 12:45pm
Martyna Majok's Cost of Living, which premiered at Williamstown last summer, is also coming to MTC this summer.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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