Mary Stuart Masterson Stars in The Scottish Play September 19 - November 2
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 06, 2005
Red Bull Theater,
Artistic Director Jesse Berger, the company that brought us the critical smash
hit of Shakespeare's Pericles in 2003, announces their fall season with the
return of Revelation Readings, a popular reading series exploring new plays of
heightened language and neglected Jacobean plays. The series runs
September 19th–November 2nd (schedule below) at The Culture Project at 45
Bleecker Street (Trains: 6 to Bleecker, F/V to Broadway-Lafeyette, N/R/W to 8th
Street & Prince) at 7pm. All readings are FREE, except The Scottish
Play Benefit with Mary Stuart Masterson. For those tickets go to www.TheaterMania.com or call
212.352.3101. For all other readings, write Tickets@redbulltheater.com or call
212.414.5168. For more information, visit www.redbulltheater.com.
The series includes a special benefit reading on Tuesday October 4th at
7:00 PM with Mary Stuart Masterson (Nine, Fried Green Tomatoes) in the New York
Premiere of The Scottish Play by Lee Blessing (A Walk in the Woods, Cobb).
Happenstance leads to hilarity as a Shakespeare Festival takes on the Bard's
most cursed play. Theatre lore says it's bad luck to utter "Macbeth"
inside a theatre. In this rollicking comedy, a director named Jack is
about to learn why. Directed by Jesse Berger (Pericles) and featuring Mary
Stuart Masterson, with more great actors to be announced. A reception and party
follows the reading. Admission to this special benefit is only $55.
Monday September 19th, 7pm:
DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE
by Christopher Marlowe
One of the greatest love tragedies of all time by Shakespeare's most stunning contemporary.
Directed by Joseph Hardy (Child's Play, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown)
Featuring Richard Easton (Henry IV, Invention of Love)
DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE
by Christopher Marlowe
One of the greatest love tragedies of all time by Shakespeare's most stunning contemporary.
Directed by Joseph Hardy (Child's Play, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown)
Featuring Richard Easton (Henry IV, Invention of Love)
Tuesday October 4th, 7pm :
THE SCOTTISH PLAY
A brand new comedy by Lee Blessing
Happenstance leads to Hilarity as a Shakespeare Festival takes on the Bard's most cursed play…
Directed by Jesse Berger
New York Premiere: Starring Mary Stuart Masterson
Make Reservations for this Special Benefit Reading at www.theatermania.com.
THE SCOTTISH PLAY
A brand new comedy by Lee Blessing
Happenstance leads to Hilarity as a Shakespeare Festival takes on the Bard's most cursed play…
Directed by Jesse Berger
New York Premiere: Starring Mary Stuart Masterson
Make Reservations for this Special Benefit Reading at www.theatermania.com.
Monday October 10th, 7pm:
ORESTES
Loosely translated by Anne Washburn (The Internationalist)
In this startlingly fresh translation, Euripides' masterpiece of guilt, honor, and irony is given new life.
Directed by Johanna McKeon
Starring James Urbaniak (Thom Pain)
ORESTES
Loosely translated by Anne Washburn (The Internationalist)
In this startlingly fresh translation, Euripides' masterpiece of guilt, honor, and irony is given new life.
Directed by Johanna McKeon
Starring James Urbaniak (Thom Pain)
Tuesday October 25th, 7pm:
THE MAID'S TRAGEDY
by Beaumont and Fletcher
Directed by Jesse Berger
Honor, love, betrayal, and blood – written by the most romantic of Jacobeans.
Starring Michael Stuhlbarg (Tony Award nominee for Pillowman)
THE MAID'S TRAGEDY
by Beaumont and Fletcher
Directed by Jesse Berger
Honor, love, betrayal, and blood – written by the most romantic of Jacobeans.
Starring Michael Stuhlbarg (Tony Award nominee for Pillowman)
Tuesday November 1st, 7pm:
THE MAN OF MODE, OR SIR FOPLING FLUTTER
A Comedy by George Etherege
London's leading libertine wreaks havoc on high society in this masterpiece of Restoration Comedy.
Directed by Kay Matschullat
Featuring Kate Burton (Hedda Gabler) and Dana Ivey (The Rivals)
THE MAN OF MODE, OR SIR FOPLING FLUTTER
A Comedy by George Etherege
London's leading libertine wreaks havoc on high society in this masterpiece of Restoration Comedy.
Directed by Kay Matschullat
Featuring Kate Burton (Hedda Gabler) and Dana Ivey (The Rivals)
Wednesday, November 2nd, 7pm
PLAYHOUSE CREATURES
By April De Angelis
Directed by Kate Whoriskey (Fabulation)
Men beware Women as Women take the Stage for the first time…
Starring Dana Ivey (Driving Miss Daisy)
PLAYHOUSE CREATURES
By April De Angelis
Directed by Kate Whoriskey (Fabulation)
Men beware Women as Women take the Stage for the first time…
Starring Dana Ivey (Driving Miss Daisy)
RED BULL THEATER is dedicated to the presentation of vital and imaginative
productions of heightened language plays and to the development of new plays
written in a similar vein. With a special focus on the Jacobean plays of
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Red Bull Theater aspires to challenge the
intellect and engage the imagination of today's theatergoers through
language-based, company-created, resonantly provocative stagings of great
classic stories. Their inaugural production, Pericles, was a critical and
audience success. Pericles received unanimous raves, from online reviews
to the major press: Margo Jefferson of The New York Times called it "The
Stuff of Dreams" and "Enchanting". Time Out New York said the production
was "Inspired" playing a twice-extended two month Off Broadway run at The
Culture Project.
Watch for more news about this up and coming new company and their next
full production, the rarely performed Jacobean masterpiece, The Revenger's
Tragedy, scheduled to open November 28, 2005 at The Culture Project. The
Revenger's Tragedy was recently read by Red Bull Theater to a standing room only
crowd, with a cast that featured Tony-Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg
(Pillowman), Howard Overshown (Yellowman), and Obie Award-winner Ty Jones (The
Blacks).
Written just a few years after Hamlet, The Revenger's Tragedy is a
pot-boiling pastiche of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries – a
provocative cross between Measure for Measure and Titus Andronicus. A
rollicking and resonant examination of the balance humanity must strike between
the social need for justice and the animal desire for vengeance, Red Bull
Theater's creative team is looking forward to sharing this marvelously macabre
play with you.
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