Theatre @ Boston Court's THE GOLDEN DRAGON to Open This Weekend

The Theatre @ Boston Court presents The Golden Dragon, by Roland Schimmelpfennig, translated by David Tushingham, directed by Boston Court Co-Artistic Director Michael Michetti. This world premiere production opens Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 5pm on the Main Stage at Boston Court Performing Arts Center, 70 North Mentor Avenue in Pasadena.

What starts out as a simple toothache evolves into a dizzying chain of events as a group of disparate people, played by a cast of five who assume many roles indiscriminate of age, gender, and race, struggle to make connections in an increasingly isolated world. At the center of the story is a Thai/Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant, The Golden Dragon, where a young Chinese man suffering from an oversensitive incisor sparks a whacked and weird series of interconnected stories. A delicious mixture of epic theatre, bizarre comedy, poetry, and fable combine to create this fabulous pho.

Featuring: Susana Batres, Joseph Kamal, Justin H. Min, Theo Perkins, Ann Colby Stocking.

Production Staff: Sara Ryung Clement, Scenic Design; Elizabeth Harper, Lighting Design; Stephanie Kerley Schwartz, Costume Design; John Nobori, Sound Design; Annie Yee, Chinese Dance Choreography; Ryun Yu, Dialect Coach; Nicole Arbusto, Casting Director; John Miyasaki, Assistant Director; Matthew Quinlan, Dramaturg; Roxana Khan, Stage Manager; Ed Krieger, Production Photography.

Roland Schimmelpfennig is an award-winning German theatre director and playwright. He began his career as a journalist, but starting in 1990 he studied at the Otto Falkenberg School to be a theatre director. He is one of Germany's most prolific playwrights, widely praised in Europe but relatively obscure in the United States. His work is said to vary from "kaleidoscopic" and dreamlike to naturalistic. He lives in the Eastern part of Berlin with his wife. Two of his plays, translated as Push Up and The Woman Before, have been performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

David Tushingham works as a dramaturg and curator for the Salzburg Festival and the Duesseldorfer Schauspielhaus. He has adapted Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories for The National Theatre, London and translated plays by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Dea Loher, Falk Richter and numerous other contemporary German playwrights. His translation of Roland Schimmelpfennig's The Golden Dragon has been performed in London, Edinburgh, Washington D.C., Toronto, Pittsburgh, Melbourne and on tour in India, Kurdistan and Ireland.

Michael Michetti (Co-Artistic Director, The Theatre @ Boston Court) has directed for The Theatre @ Boston Court: Tom Jacobson's The Twentieth-Century Way with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, NYC, Eric Coble's My Barking Dog, Aaron Posner's Stupid f-ing Bird, Dan Dietz's American Misfit, Kathryn Walat's Creation, John Walch's The Dinosaur Within, Deborah Stein's God Save Gertrude, Jason Grote's 1001, Carlos Murillo's dark play or stories for boys, Eric Whitacre's Paradise Lost: Shadows & Wings, his own adaptation of Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray, Sinan Ünel's Pera Palas, Charles L. Mee's Summertime, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Elsewhere: Figaro, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Guardsman, The Grapes of Wrath, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Don Juan and As You Like It (A Noise Within); Kiss Me, Kate, Carousel, Man of La Mancha and Li'l Abner (Reprise); Tom Jacobson's House of the Rising Son (EST-LA); A Life in the Theatre (Pasadena Playhouse). He is the recipient of two Ovation Awards and five LADCC Awards.

The Golden Dragon is supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The Shubert Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Founding Director Z. Clark Branson, and the generous contributions of The Theatre @ Boston Court supporters and contributors.

The Theatre @ Boston Court is the award-winning resident theatre company at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA. Jessica Kubzansky and Michael Michetti, Co-Artistic Directors; Michael Seel, Executive Director; Hillary Metcalf Schenk, Managing Director.