Abbey Theatre to Bring Rickman in JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN to NYC in '11

As previously reported on BroadwayWorld, Ireland's Abbey Theatre will present Ibsen's JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN from October 6 to November 20 in a production starring Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, and Lindsay Duncan.  The Theatre's official website has now announced that the production will be brought to New York in January 2011.  A New York venue has yet to be announced. 

JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN will be presented in a new version by Frank McGuinness and will be directed by James Macdonald.  In addition to Rickman (John Gabriel Borkman), Shaw (Mrs. Gunhild Borkman), and Duncan (Mrs. Ella Rentheim), the production will feature Amy Molloy (Frida Foldal), Cathy Belton (Mrs. Wilton), Joan Sheehy (Maid), John Kavanaugh (Vilhelm Foldal), and Marty Rea (Erhart Borkman). 

The Abbey Theatre's description of the play reads, "John Gabriel Borkman was once a great man. Wealthy, powerful, revered. He gave up love for success and was handsomely rewarded.

But now, disgraced and destitute after a financial scandal and jail, the former director of the bank paces out each day, alone in an upstairs room, planning his comeback.

Downstairs his wife Gunhild lives a parallel life, plotting for their son to restore the family's reputation.

The claustrophobia of their lives is shattered once and for all with the arrival of Gunhild's twin sister Ella, the woman whose love Borkman gave away..."

Tickets for Abbey Theatre members are on sale now.  Tickets for the general public will go on sale July 10.  For more information, visit www.abbeytheatre.ie.

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