SCENES FROM AN ADULTERY to Play New Rep Theatre, 4/25-5/17

New Repertory Theatre announces SCENES FROM AN ADULTERY by Ronan Noone, April 25-May 17, 2015 in the Charles Mosesian Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA. Tickets are $30-$60 and may be purchased by calling the New Rep Box Office at 617-923-8487 or visiting newrep.org. Student, senior, and group discounts are available. The press opening will be Monday, April 27 at 7:30pm.

"New Rep has a deep commitment to producing new works," says New Rep Artistic Director, Jim Petosa. "We are once again thrilled to culminate our season with a Next Rep World Premiere. It is with great pleasure that we present this stunning and funny new play from Ronan Noone, whose style and depth as a playwright has enlivened the stages of Boston and beyond."

"New Rep was pleased to welcome Ronan Noone this season as a Next Voices Playwriting Fellow," says Managing Director, Harriet Sheets. "SCENES FROM AN ADULTERY has enjoyed a fruitful development process over the past year through a variety of readings and workshops, concluding with this exciting World Premiere production."

Local playwright Ronan Noone takes the traditional British drawing room comedy of manners and turns it on its side in the hilariously bawdy new play, SCENES FROM AN ADULTERY. During one of their weekly sessions at the local pub, Gasper spills the news to Tony that a mutual friend might be having an affair. Tony's wife Lisa is caught up in it but doesn't know, Gasper's on the case, and all Tony wants is to forget it all happened. SCENES FROM AN ADULTERY examines our unions and what it takes for them to endure in this culture clash comedy of miscommunication, miscalculations, and the boundaries of true love and friendship.

New Repertory Theatre is the award-winning, professional theatre company in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA. Now celebrating its 30th anniversary season as a leading self-producing theatre in greater Boston, New Rep produces contemporary and classic dramas, comedies, and musicals in both the 340-seat Charles Mosesian Theater and the 90-seat Black Box Theater. Annually, New Rep serves over 40,000 patrons, including 2,000 season subscribers. In addition to its mainstage productions, New Rep produces Next Voices, a program dedicated to developing new plays with four playwrights through three staged readings and one world premiere production. Under its Lifelong Enrichment Arts Programs (LEAP), New Rep also produces its Classic Repertory Company, Page To Stage, Insider Experiences, and Spotlight Symposium Series.

New Repertory Theatre produces plays that speak powerfully to the essential ideas of our time. Through the passion and electricity of live theater performed to the highest standards of excellence, New Rep expands and challenges the human spirit of both artists and audience. New Rep presents world premieres, contemporary and classic works in several intimate settings. We are committed to education and outreach, including special dedication to the creation of innovative in-school programming and providing access to underserved audiences. New Rep is an active advocate for the arts and a major voice in the national dialogue defining the role of theater in our culture.

BIOS:

Ronan Noone (Playwright) is a graduate of Boston University's MFA Playwriting Program and is currently an Assistant Professor in the same program. His plays, The Lepers of Baile Baiste, The Blowin of Baile Gall, The Gigolo of Baile Breag, Brendan, Little Black Dress, and The Compass Rose, have played in theatres across the United States. His play The Atheist played at the Huntington Theatre Company and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. It was also co-produced by The Culture Project and Ted Mann's Circle in the Square Productions in New York, and received both Drama Desk and Drama League Acting nominations. Other recent international productions have taken place in Edinburgh, London, and the Philippines. His full-length and one-act plays are published by Samuel French, Smith and Kraus, Baker Plays, and Dramatists Play Service. Awards include Jeff Recommendations in Chicago, Ovation Recommendations in Los Angeles, Critics Award in Austin, Texas, American Critics Steinberg New Play Award nomination, three separate Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards for Best New Play, the Boston Theatre Critics Association's Elliot Norton Outstanding Script Award, and a Kennedy Center National Playwriting Award. His essay on theatre, "Being Afraid to Breathe," is published by the Princeton University Library Chronicle LXVIII. Mr. Noone has also developed work for television with Pretty Matches Productions and the reality TV-based production company High Noon Entertainment. His 2014, Live Action Short The Accident has played the Boston International Film Festival and the Montclair Film Festival. His play The Second Girl, directed by Campbell Scott had its World Premiere at the Huntington Theatre Company in January 2015. Originally from Ireland, Mr. Noone now resides in Weymouth. RonanNoone.com

Bridget Kathleen O'Leary (Director) joined New Rep as Artistic and Education Associate in 2008. Most recently, she has directed New Rep's productions of Muckrakers, Pattern of Life, Lungs, Fully Committed, Collected Stories, DollHouse, boom, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Fool for Love. Other directing credits include Reconsidering Hanna(h) and The Devil's Teacup (Boston Playwrights' Theatre); The Other Place (The Nora Theatre and Underground Railway Theater); Recent Tragic Events, and Aunt Dan and Lemon (Whistler in the Dark). In 2007, she assisted Artistic Director Wendy C. Goldberg at the National Playwrights' Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and worked as an assistant on new plays by Rebecca Gilman and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Before moving to Boston, Bridget worked in Washington, DC with the Olney Theatre Center, Theater Alliance, Cherry Red Productions, Charter Theater, Studio Theatre Second Stage, and Phoenix Theatre DC, of which she was a founding member. She is the Chair of the Literary Department for the National New Play Network and a member of the New England New Play Alliance. Bridget received her MFA in directing at Boston University.

Ciaran Crawford (Gasper) makes his New Repertory Theatre debut. Credits include The Seafarer (Speakeasy Stage Company); The Blowin of Baile Gall (Boston Playwrights' Theatre); The Lepers of Baile Baiste and At the Blind Pig's Dyke (Su?ga?n Theatre Company); Dancing at Lughnasa (Wellesley Theatre); and Fen (Le Black Cat). Film and television credits include Black Mass, Portico, The Sopranos, and Brotherhood. Originally from Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland, he now resides in Cambridge.

Peter Stray (Tony) makes his New Repertory Theatre debut. Credits include The Whaleship Essex (Hudson Guild and Vineyard Playhouse); Original Acts, Two Rooms, and Much Ado About Nothing (Vineyard Playhouse); Arcadia (Folger Theatre); Tricks Of Youth (Globe Theatre); The English Channel (The Beckett Theatre); Antony & Cleopatra and Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Theatre); Comedy of Errors (Rosemary Branch Theatre - London Time Out Critic's Choice Award). Film and television credits include Lost (ABC); Deadly Honeymoon (Lifetime); Mystery of Matter (PBS) and his acclaimed online series Secludio - secludio.com. Mr. Stray trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama, London. Upcoming projects include the sci-fi horror comedy Canaries.

Leda Uberbacher (Lisa) makes her New Repertory Theatre debut. Boston credits include On This Moon (Flat Earth); and Cry Innocent (History Alive). Ms. Uberbacher studied at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York. Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, she now resides in Watertown.