Burning Coal Theatre Company Presents David Edgar's WRITTEN ON THE HEART
By: A.A. Cristi Oct. 28, 2016
Burning Coal Theatre Company will present David Edgar's Written on the Heart, a drama about the creation of the King James Bible. The play will run December 1-3, 8-10 and 15-17, 2016 at 7:30 pm and December 4, 11 and 18th at 2 pmat Burning Coal's Murphey School Auditorium, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC 27604.
Tickets are $25 regular admission or $20 for seniors (65+) or $15 for students, teachers and active military. The first Sunday, December 4th, is Pay What You Can Day and will be Audio described. All Thursday performances are $15 general admission. Tickets and further information can be found at www.burningcoal.org or by calling 919.834.4001.
ABOUT WRITTEN ON THE HEART
David Edgar's Written on the Heart is a celebration of the astonishing story of the 80 year long fight to create a Bible that could be read and understood by the People. A Heretic is hunted down by the Church. His illicit tome is burned, followed shortly by its author. But William Tyndale left behind something more than his own charred bones. He left behind an idea. Written on the Heart is packed full of history and ideas. As is the case with all of David Edgar's plays, it brims with language, with life and death situations, with people fighting for what they believe in. Among other things, William Tyndale's Bible is credited with introducing more idioms to the English language, such as "Let my people go", "Rise and Shine", "Let there be light", "my brother's keeper", "go the extra mile"... and many, many more... more than any writer in the English language before or since.
ABOUT David Edgar
David Edgar is a British playwright who has associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1976. He has over 60 published plays, which has helped him become one of the most prolific playwrights of our time. He was also the writer of the Iron Curtain Trilogy performed at Burning Coal in September 2014 and by Burning Coal in London in November of that year. Some of his other notable plays include The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Albert Speer, andMaydays. He is currently working on a commission for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
ABOUT THE CAST AND TEAM
Playing Tyndale will be John Allore of Durham. Playing Andrewes will be St. Augustine's Theatre Director George Jack. Playing Thomson will be the UNC-Pembroke Theatre Director Holden Hansen. All are members of the Burning Coal Company of actors. Making her Burning Coal stage debut as Mary Currer will be Kaley Morrison of Fayetteville. Burning Coal's Artistic Director Jerome Davis will direct the production. See below for their bios. Scenery will be by Ed Intemann of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Technical direction will be led by Barry Jaked, and costumes will be done by Katy Werlin, both of Raleigh.
Jerome Davis (director) founded Burning Coal 20 years ago with his wife, Simmie Kastner. For Burning Coal: Rat in the Skull, Winding the Ball (Raleigh and NYC), Steward of Christendom, Hamlet, Night & Day, Iron Curtain Trilogy (Raleigh and London), Company, Shining City, The Weir and St. Nicholas (the last as an actor), The Road to Mecca, Juno & the Paycock, The Man Who Tried to Save the World (as playwright),Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Taming of the Shrew, Inherit the Wind, Hysteria, 1960, The Seafarer, Enron, Jude the Obscure Parts 1 & 2,Sunday in the Park with George, Spoonface Steinberg and Dark Vanilla Jungle (London). For NC Opera: Britten's Turn of the Screw. For Temple Theatre: Of Mice and Men, for Sonorous Road: Grounded. Jerome recently played Tom in Burning Coal's highly acclaimed production of Skylight by David Hare opposite Emily Rieder, directed by UNCG Theatre professor John Gulley. Jerome has studied or worked with Uta Hagen, Nikos Psacharapolous, Julie Bovasso, Adrian Hall, Richard Jenkins, Hope Davis, Ellen Burstyn, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet and Ralph Waite and Oliver Platt. He worked at Trinity Rep in Providence, NJ Shakespeare, People's Light near Philadelphia, the Phoenix Theatre at SUNY/Purchase, Avalon Rep, the Mint, Columbia University and many others.
George Jack (Andrewes) has played a lot of historical characters in the sixteen years since he moved to Raleigh. He has been performing in Burning Coal Theatre's Oakwood Cemetery historical productions for eleven years, portraying such local historical figures as Joel Lane, Richard Stanhope Pullen, and Josephus Daniels. Along the way, he has played three generations of men in the Mordecai family: Samuel Fox Mordecai II (in the current play, and in another one a couple years ago), Moses Mordecai (three times), and Henry Mordecai. And, George has performed in Halloween and Christmas events at The Mordecai House in Raleigh, as well as other Burning Coal historical performances at Raleigh's City Cemetery, along Fayetteville Street, at the Raleigh City Museum, and at the Page-Walker House in Cary. Other plays with Burning Coal (where he has been a company member for fourteen years) include 1776 (Ben Franklin), Travesties (Vladimir Lenin, in the Spoleto Festival tour), Hamlet, Brigadoon, Hysteria, and Inherit the Wind: over thirty productions in all. Locally, George has also worked with Raleigh Ensemble Players (including Claude Monet in Defying Gravity), The African-American Cultural Complex (John Quincy Adams inAmistad Saga), Theatre in the Park, Honest Pint Theatre (the uncut production of Hamlet), Delta Boys Theatre, Second Avenue South Players, the Jewish Community Center Theater Project, Stillwater Theatre Company, and Playground Theatre Cooperative in Carrboro. George is Associate Professor of Humanities at Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, where he directs and has taught every class in the Theatre curriculum.
John Allore (Tyndale) is pleased to be back working with Burning Coal Theater Company. John last appeared in Burning Coal's 2016 production of Blue Sky, a co-production with the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh. Prior to that John appeared in Peter & the Starcatcherat Playmakers Repertory Company and My Fair Lady at The Temple Theater playing Henry Higgins. John has acted in the Triangle for close to 20 years. He was the founding Managing Director of The Deep Dish Theater Company of Chapel Hill. He is currently finishing a run of Anything Goes playing Sir Evelyn Oakley, also at Temple Theater. A native of Montreal, John studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York City under Richard Pinter and Sanford Meisner. Written On The Heart will be John's second experience working with David Edgar having appeared in Burning Coal's 2011 production of The Shape Of The Table. Favorite productions include working with Robert Wilson on his award winning production of Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken, and working with recently deceased, Pulitzer-winning playwright Edward Albee on his productions of Beckett's Ohio Impromptu and Krapp's Last Tape at The Alley Theater in Houston, Texas.
Kaley Morrison (Mary Currer) is thrilled to be on the Burning Coal stage for the first time. Kaley is a Fayetteville native and recent transplant to the Triangle. She received her BA for acting from Campbell University. Favorite roles include Viola in Twelfth Night, Holly in Nickel and Dimed, and Anecie in Unto These Hills. Kaley would like to give a very special thanks to Jerry, her family and friends for their unwavering support.
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