Rogue Machine Presents SUNSET LIMITED, 11/6-12/19

Multi-award winning writer Cormac McCarthy will have his play THE SUNSET LIMITED presented for the first time in Los Angeles, as part of Rogue Machine's 2010 season.   Set in a subway tenement apartment of the ex-con, Black, who has forcibly prevented the college professor, White, from casting himself in the path of an on-rushing subway train.  Black keeps White a virtual prisoner while he probes the roots of White's suicide attempt.  Black is no stranger to the violence of human nature, but his life has changed drastically since a near death experience.
 
CORMAC McCARTHY (playwright) received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road. His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He received a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1992 novel, All the Pretty Horses. His previous novel, Blood Meridian, (1985) was among Time Magazine's poll of 100 best English-language books published between 1923 and 2005 and placed joint runner-up in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years.  Literary critic Harold Bloom namEd McCarthy as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth, calling Blood Meridian "the greatest single book since Faulkner's As I Lay Dying." In 2010 the London Times ranked The Road first on its list of the 100 best fiction and non-fiction books of the past 10 years.
 
John PerriN FLYNN (Director) directed the multi-award winning World Premiere of Henry Murray's Treefall (now being produced regionally and published by the Dramatist Play Service in 2010) last season, and the critically acclaimed Los Angeles premiere of Rogue Machine's inaugural production Compleat Female Stage Beauty. He helmed the Craig Lucas' hit Small Tragedies at The Odyssey Theatre and the world premiere of John Pollono's Lost and Found at The Lounge Theatre. John is Rogue Machine's founding Artistic Director and has been the Executive Producer of all three successful seasons.  He was the Executive Producer and director of Lifetime's long running award winning series Strong Medicine, has produced two other series and 14 television movies or miniseries including the Emmy nominated Burden of Proof. He attended The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and has a MA degree in Theatre from Illinois State University.

THE SUNSET LIMITED opens November 6th and runs Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 5 pm and Sundays at 7pm though December 19, 2010.  No performances November 11, 25, & 27).  ROGUE MACHINE in Theatre Theater is located at 5041 Pico Blvd., LA, CA 90019.  Tickets are $25and may be purchased by calling(323) 960-4424 or at www.roguemachinetheatre.com 

 

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