Complete Brits Off-Broadway Line-Up Announced

The complete Brits Off-Broadway line-up has been announced, with a number of playwrights joining the previously announced Alan Ayckbourn and Jonathan Lichtenstein.  All shows play 59E59 Theaters.

The Receipt will run from May 3-27. Written and performed by Will Adamsdale and Chris Branch, the play premiered at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.  "A man flips out and searches the city for the owner of a receipt. Is he a hero, or an idiot?," state press notes.

Memory will play from May 5-27.  Written by Jonathan Lichtenstein and directed by Terry Hands, the play is has been seen at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Wales.  Memory "links the events of the Holocaust with the modern-day Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

Silverland, written by Benjamin Davis and directed by Di Trevis, plays May 15-June 3.  The play was previously seen at Arcola Theatre.  Silverland "is set in the near future, in 2011, and global warming has left Britain in near ruin. With resources running dangerously low and a volatile and exaggerated climate teetering on the brink of chaos, six characters search for companionship in the face of inevitable change."

Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles, written by Mark Jenkins and directed by Josh Richards, will run May 29-June 10.  It will star Christian McKay.  Rosebud "revisits the glories of Welles' youth and his subsequent exile from Hollywood."

Intimate Exchanges will run May 31-July 1.  Written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn, the play is adapted from the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.  "One character's dilemma—to smoke or not to smoke—kicks off eight separate plays with 16 different endings."

Rabbit will play from June 5-July 1.  The play is written and directed by Nina Raine, and premiered in the West End in 2006.  "Friends and former lovers meet for a drink to celebrate Bella's 29th birthday. But as the Bloody Marys flow, the bar soon becomes a battlefield in an uncivil and hilarious war between the sexes."

Radio, written by Al Smith and directed by James Yeatman, will play June 12-July 1.  The show, which previously played the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe and London's Soho Theatre, is "about a farmer-turned-flag maker's son who shoots for the moon" and "parallels a young man's coming of age with the birth and death of the Apollo Program, and explores the consequences of our losing sight of the Earth."

59E59 Theaters is located at 59 East 59th Street.  Visit www.59e59.org or www.britsoffbroadway.com for more information.