RUINED, the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Lynn Nottage, will be featured on CNN beginning this weekend. The segment will premiere this Saturday on "Inside Africa" which airs on CNN International (Time Warner Channel 133).
"Inside Africa" airs Saturday at 11 AM and 7:30 PM, Sunday at 7:30 PM, and Tuesday at 4:30 AM and 11 PM (all times listed are for Eastern Time Zone).The segment, produced by Femi Oke, will feature interviews with Nottage, director Kate Whoriskey, and cast members Russell G. Jones and Condola Rashad.RUINED is the most acclaimed new play of 2009, having received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Best Play award from the New York Drama Critics Circle, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, five Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding New Play, five Outer Critics Circle Award nominations including Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, and two Drama League nominations including Distinguished Production of a Play.Tickets for the Manhattan Theatre Club and Goodman Theatre co-production of RUINED are currently on sale through June 28 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street).
From Lynn Nottage, the Obie Award-winning author of such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel and director Kate Whoriskey (The Piano Teacher, Fabulation), comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life?TICKETING INFORMATION FOR RUINED Tickets for RUINED are available via New York City Center Box Office (131 West 55th Street), CityTix® (212-581-1212) and www.nycitycenter.org. Tickets for RUINED are $75. www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com
