MARGO VEIL to Play Suffolk University's Modern Theatre This November

Master story-teller Len Jenkin's Margo Veil opens November 17th at Suffolk University's historic Modern Theatre in the heart of Boston's theatre district. Directed by Wesley Savick, Jenkin's play blends surreal radio melodrama with wacky comedy, and film noir style. The protagonist, the young actress Margo Veil, takes us on a strange adventure through an ever-changing landscape of dream and reality.

Says Marilyn Plotkins, Chair of the Suffolk University Theatre Department, "Margo Veil is a surreal, cinematic roller-coaster of a show that features a cast and crew of 42 talented students. Under Wes Savick's inspired direction, it promises to be a wonderful ride."

Director Savick has previously directed several of Jenkin's plays. He notes, "Once in a blue moon, I encounter a theatre artist whose work makes me exclaim, 'I didn't know you could DO that!' Len Jenkin is a source of profound inspiration for me. He is a theatrical master of wistfulness, wonder and delight. It is an indescribable pleasure to introduce a whole new generation of Suffolk theatre students to his genius."

Margo Veil playwright Len Jenkin, Professor in New York University's Dramatic Writing Department will attend Thursday night's performance and will speak with students about playwriting and the creative process on Friday at 10am in the Sullivan Studio Theatre (Sawyer Building, 11th floor).

Startling, satirical and funny, drawing from 1950s paranoia, Margo Veil explores the instability and volatility of the human experience and the fracturing of individual identity. We jump into the consciousness of failed actress Margo Veil who uses outlawed technology to leap from place to place, identity to identity - as her reality collides with illusion.

Margo Veil is a Suffolk University Theatre Department student production which runs from November 17th-20th.

IF YOU GO:

Margo Veil

By Len Jenkin
Directed by Wesley Savick

November 17-20, 2016

At the Modern Theatre, 525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111

Tickets: Adults ($15); Students with valid ID ($10)

Call 617-573-8282 or visit www.moderntheatre.com

The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University is the newest performance space in the Washington Street Theater District. The grand facade of the historic theater, Boston's first designed specifically for showing movies, has been painstakingly restored and reconstructed as part of the Modern Theatre and residence hall development. Inside, an intimate jewel-box theater showcases central design elements that are a modernization of some of the most distinctive historic features of the 1914 theater. The state-of-the-art, 185-seat venue is ideal for live performances, conversations, readings and film screenings and promotes excellence and innovation through all of its programming. For more about these and other programs at the Modern visit www.moderntheatre.com. The Modern Theatre is managed and programmed by the Theatre Department at Suffolk University. For more, visit www.suffolk.edu/ModernTheatre.

Suffolk University, located in historic downtown Boston, with an international campus in Madrid, is a student-centered institution distinguished by excellence in education and scholarship. Suffolk University offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in more than 90 areas of study. Its mission is to empower graduates to be successful locally, regionally, and globally.

Len Jenkin (Playwright) is a novelist, playwright, director, and screenwriter. His novels include N. Judah, New Jerusalem, and The Secret Life of Billy's Uncle Myron (with Emily Jenkins).Plays include Dark Ride, Pilgrims of the Night, Careless Love, My Uncle Sam, Limbo Tales, The Dream Express, and Like I Say. His works for the stage have been produced throughout the United States, as well as in England, Germany, France, Denmark, and Japan. His films include Blame it on the Night, Welcome to Oblivion, and American Notes. He has received many honors and awards, including three OBIE awards for Directing and Playwriting, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Award, a nomination for an EMMY Award, and four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Mr. Jenkin holds a PhD in American Literature from Columbia University. He's a Professor in the Dramatic Writing Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and lives in New York City.

WESLEY SAVICK (Director) has directed and developed more than 100 professional productions, almost all new works. He has written, co-written, or adapted more than 25 plays including an adaptation of an NPR show (Car Talk: The Musical!!!); an original opera based on the life of Liberace (The Magic of Believing); adaptations of the writings of Howard Zinn (Shouting Theatre in a Crowded Fire), James Hillman, and war correspondent Chris Hedges (shrapnel), diplomat George F. Kennan (The Strength and Indifference of the Snow), and medieval holy woman Margery Kempe (The Desire of the Moth for the Star). For the Catalyst Collaborative at Central Square Theatre, he wrote and directed adaptations of Alan Lightman's novels Einstein's Dreams and Mr. g, and created an original piece based on the life of Henry Molaison, the subject of exhaustive initial research into the neurology of memory Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M.

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