Rubicon Theatre Company Presents Free Reading of THE THREE SISTERS BRONTE

Award-winning playwright Arlene Hutton's newest play THE THREE SISTERS BRONTË receives a FREE staged reading at Rubicon Theatre Company on February 6 at 7:00 p.m. Interweaving the famous trio of literary sisters and Anton Chekhov's masterpiece Three Sisters, the play examines the complexities of feminism, art, love and family. Set against the bleak and windy Yorkshire moors in the mid-1800s, Arlene Hutton's THE THREE SISTERS BRONTË follows the lives of the sisters as they struggle to find creative prosperity while navigating the harsh realities of a male society. Faced with limited opportunities for educated women, Charlotte, Emily and Anne live in the rich worlds of their imaginations, until they are forced to face the truth that nothing is certain, and their destinies are best served when held firmly in their own hands.

The cast features Lily Nicksay as Charlotte Bronte ("Boy Meets World"/Ovation winner See Rock City at Rubicon/starring in Rubicon's current production of Gulf View Drive; Ashley Fox Linton as Anne Bronte (National Tours of Wicked and Les Miserables/ Sunset Boulevard at Musical Theatre West/ How the Grinch Stole Christmas at The Old Globe/ The Last Five Years at Rubicon); Dana Brooke as Emily Bronte (Vencia with Chita Riversa, Claudia Lazlo with Reed Birney, Vacuum at Cherry Lane Theatre, Company Member at B Street Theatre, where she was in The Nibroc Trilogy); Shane Allen as Branwell Bronte; Joe Spano as Patrick Bronte ("NCIS"/Emmy winner/ Rubicon productions of A Christmas Carol, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia); Rudolph Willrich as the Vicar of Bradford (My Fair Lady and Noises Off at Rubicon); Jordan Stidham as Arthur Bell Nicholls (currently in Thrones! A Musical Parody at the Hudson Theatre); Parker Harris as William Weightman (A Christmas Carol /West Side Story at Rubicon) and Dorian Tayler as Smith/Dr. Crosby (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridgedat La Mirada).

DIRECTOR:

KATHARINE FARMER returns to Rubicon Theatre Company to direct Gulf View Drive, the final play in Arlene Hutton's Nibroc Trilogy. Katharine received an Ovation Award nomination for directing See Rock City and won an Indy Award for her direction ofLast Train to Nibroc, which was also nominated for Best Production of a Play at the Ovation Awards. She made her West End directing debut with Pig Farm at the St. James Theatre in London, also starring Erik Odom. Most recently, Katharine has co-directed the Canadian premiere of 23.5 Hours (formerly known as Conviction) with Karyl Lynn Burns at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. Other recent credits include readings of Three Sisters Bronte at the Barrow Group Theatre and New Dramatists (NYC), Carey Crim's Glamping at the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival and an adaptation of The Importance of Being Lewis as a charity fundraiser for the Duchenne Research Fund at the West End's Dominion Theatre. Katharine served as Associate Producer and Assistant Director to Rubicon Artistic Director James O'Neil on the Off-Broadway production ofLonesome Traveler, which ran at 59E59 and was Assistant Director to Jenny Sullivan on the Off-Broadway production ofWiesenthal. Katharine also served as Assistant to the Director for Sir Trevor Nunn on his acclaimed revival of Scenes from a Marriage. Katharine is the company director of Dead Posh Productions and is proud to be the Director of International Programming at Rubicon.

PLAYWRIGHT:
Arlene Hutton is an alumna of New Dramatists and member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Dramatists Guild. She is best known for The Nibroc Trilogy, which includes Last Train to Nibroc (Drama League Best Play nomination), See Rock City(Spirit of America Award) and Gulf View Drive (L.A. Weekly, Ovation Award nominations), all published by Dramatist Play Service. Her plays have been presented Off- and Off-Off-Broadway and at theatres across the U.S., in London, Edinburgh, and throughout the world. Other works by Hutton include Letters to Sala, Running, Vacuum, I Dream Before I Take the Stand, Three Sisters Brontë, As It Is In Heaven, and Happy Worst Day Ever (commissioned by Cincinnati Playhouse and winner of the Macy's New Play Prize). Twice named a Tennessee Williams Fellow at the University of the South, Hutton is a three-time winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival, finalist for the Francesca Primus Prize and recipient of the Lippmann Award, the Calloway Award, an EST/Sloan Commission and a 2016 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. Residencies include the Australian National Playwrights Conference, Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell Colony, New Harmony Project, SPACE at Ryder Farm and Yaddo. Her play for teens Kissed the Girls and Made Them Cry was just published by Playscripts. Hutton teaches playwriting at The Barrow Group in New York City.

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