Director Sam Yates and actor Alan Cox will be at the Drama Book Shop for a special Q&A event about the upcoming Brits Off Broadway production of J. B. Priestley's CORNELIUS. The event takes place on Tuesday, May 28 at 6 PMat the Drama Book Shop (250 West 40th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues). The event is FREE and open to the public.
This near-forgotten play by J. B. Priestley is as relevant today as it was in 1935. Set during the post-Crash years, the ever-optimistic Jim Cornelius, partner at import firm Briggs and Murrison, is fighting to keep his creditors happy and his spirits up. Tensions rise with the arrival of Judy, the beautiful, young typist who shows Cornelius the life he could have led. The Times enthused, "Anyone who has ever sat behind an office desk and felt a creeping, claustrophobic panic will find this little-known 1935 drama by J. B. Priestley painfully pertinent."Actor Alan Cox (last seen in NY in The Caretaker at BAM) and director Sam Yates (who was associate director on Hamlet starring Jude Law, directed by Michael Grandage, and One Man, Two Guvnors, directed by Nicholas Hytner) lead a conversation about this prescient play and writer J.B. Priestley's (An Inspector Calls) legacy. A Q&A follows.Videos