MTC 2007-08 Season

just got my subscription renewal info from MTC, and it includes descriptions of three of their seven 2007-08 productions:

*Mauritius, by Theresa Rebeck, at the Biltmore

*Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill, directed by James MacDonald, also at the Biltmore

*The Receptionist, by Adam Bock, directed by Joe Mantello, with Jayne Houdyshell, at NYCC

dont know much about any of these. rebeck wrote "omnium gatherum", which was brilliant, and well reviewed, i believe. but these three plays themselves are unfamiliar to me.

i also wonder if anyone's heard anything about the rest of MTC's season ... they have a tough act to follow after this year!

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Rebeck is very prolific and also wrote THE SCENE that played at Second Stage a few months ago w/ Tony Shaloub and Patricia Heaton and WATER'S EDGE that had an off-Broadway run a few months before that. MAURITIUS is a more recent play of hers that I seem to recall had a well-received production at Huntington last year.

TOP GIRLS is one of the great Caryl Churchill's best works from the early 80s with an all female cast. Next year will be a big year for her in NY (she's a Brit) -- the Public is also producing her latest play DRUNK ENOUGH TO SAY I LOVE YOU, which is a fascinating-sounding avant garde piece (typical of her) in which Tony Blair and George W Bush are imagined to be in a quasi-sado-masochistic relationship.

Adam Bock is a very promising young up-and-coming playwright who's THE THUGS last year was critically acclaimed (it made a half dozen critics top ten lists for the year) and who's SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOWS was well-received the year before.

To my mind, those three choices alone seem at least as interesting as anything from MTC's current seasn.

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Updated On: 4/21/07 at 04:09 PM

SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOWS played at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre starring Logan Marshall-Green and Michael Arden.

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Wow, sounds good.

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