RACE Comes To TheaterWorks in Downtown Hartford 6/3-7/10

RACE, by David Mamet. Multiple Award-winning playwright David Mamet tackles America's most controversial topic in a provocative new tale of sex, guilt and bold accusations. Two lawyers find themselves defending a wealthy white executive charged with raping a black woman. When a new legal assistant gets involved in the case, the opinions that boil beneath explode to the surface. Dangerous truths are revealed, and no punches are spared.

Tazewell Thompson, who staged TheaterWorks' celebrated productions
of Broke-ology, God of Carnage and A Steady Rain, directs Ward Duffy (Jack), Taneisha Duggan (Susan), Avery Glymph (Henry), and Jack Koenig (Charles) in RACE, the fourth play of TheaterWorks' 25th Anniversary Season.

The production's design team includes Donald Eastman (Sets), Harry Nadal (Costumes), Robert William Henderson Jr.(Lights), and Fabian Obispo (Sound). Production Manager is Michael Lenaghan.

OVERVIEW: David Mamet states "In my play a firm made up of three lawyers, two black and one white, is offered the chance to defend a white man charged with a crime against a black young woman. Race, like sex, is a subject in which it is near impossible to tell the truth". The play is intended as an addition to the ongoing dialogue about the subject of race. Audience members will be moved to self-scrutiny by Mamet's signature gritty yet finely tuned language.

STORYLINE:
When a rich white man is accused of raping a younger African American woman, he looks to a multicultural law firm for his defense. But even as his lawyers - one of them white, another black - begin to strategize, they must confront their own biases and assumptions about race relations in America.

When:
June 3 through July 10, 2011

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays: 7:30 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays: 8:00 p.m.

Weekend Matinees: 2:30 p.m.

Where:
TheaterWorks
City Arts on Pearl - 233 Pearl Street in Downtown Hartford

Admission:
Weeknights / Matinees $40

Friday / Saturday Evenings $50

Center Reserved Service Charge $12.50

College-age Student Rush w/ID $15 (subject to availability)

Discounts are available for groups of 15 or more.

For seats call (860) 527-7838.

Free seats for select performances of RACE are available for young people ages 16 - 17 thanks to Lincoln Financial Foundation.

The final two plays of TheaterWorks' 2010-2011 Season are:

Race by David Mamet
June 3 through July 10, 2011

The Understudy by Theresa Rebeck
August 5 through September 18, 2011

Subscriptions for TheaterWorks UPCOMING 2011-2012 Season are only $139. With TheaterWorks' unique subscription system patrons may attend a play any time they wish during its run, and are credited with free seats if they ever miss a play.

For more information, visit www.theaterworkshartford.org
TheaterWorks receives special program support from Aetna, Bank of America, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Lincoln Financial Foundation, Travelers, and United Technologies Corporation, as well as general support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, and Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.