BCAP/BPT's EXPOSED Opens Next Week

The Boston Center for American Performance (BCAP) and Boston Playwrights' Theatre (BPT) co-production of Robert Brustein's political satire Exposed opens next week.

The limited engagement-running December 10-18-is the newest play from Boston University's New Play Initiative. The cast of Exposed features a list of local favorites including Jeremiah Kissel [recently in Brustein's The King of Second Avenue at New Repertory Theatre and in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's King Lear], Annette Miller [familiar to area audiences for a number of roles including 19 seasons at Lenox's Shakespeare & Company] and Michael Hammond [a veteran of local, regional and Broadway stages and whose play Uncle Jack was produced by BCAP/BPT last season]. Remo Airaldi, Scott Barrow, Annabelle Cousins, Abby Goldfarb and Tess Wenger complete the cast.

Playwright Brustein is a true legend of the American theater. He is the founding director of Yale Repertory Theatre and American Repertory Theatre and at 89 years old, remains an active playwright, critic and educator.

A post-show conversation with the playwright, director Steven Bogart and the cast of Exposed will follow the 8 p.m. performance on Dec. 11.

Loosely based on Molière's Tartuffe, Exposed follows evangelical hypocrite Dick Cockburn and rich power broker Seymour Sackeroff, who-with the help of his mother Hortense-tries to pave the televangelist's path to the White House. Opposing these strategies are Sackeroff's wife Candy (a former chorus-girl), his gay son Ronald, and his beautiful daughter, Caroline. When Sackeroff offers to throw Caroline into Cockburn's arms along with his money, he ignites a series of explosions that lead to Cockburn's exposure, both psychological and physical.