Boundless Theater Company Presents US Premiere of FIVE KINDS OF SILENCE

Boundless Theater Company in collaboration with Teatro Círculo (www.teatrocirculo.org) present the U.S. premiere of Shelagh Stephenson's acclaimed FIVE KINDS OF SILENCE directed by Tlaloc Rivas at Teatro Círculo: 64 East 4th Street (between Bowery & 2nd Avenue, NYC).

FIVE KINDS OF SILENCE carves the stunning and heartbreaking tale of a working-class family trapped within a cycle of violence – and the conspiracy of silence that surrounds them.  Shelagh Stephenson's award-winning drama belatedly makes its professional U.S. premiere with an international cast and creative team which exemplifies the 'boundless' mission.

FIVE KINDS OF SILENCE is adapted from the radio production of the same name was first performed at the Lyric Hammersmith, London in May of 2000. It received the 1996 Writers' Guild Award for Best Original Radio Play and the 1997 Sony Award for Best Original Drama.

Ms. Stephenson's plays include: The Memory of Water (1997), which opened at The Hampstead Theatre, London in 1996, and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy; An Experiment With An Air Pump (1998), and was joint winner of the 1997 Peggy Ramsay Award, and premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 1998; Ancient Lights (2000) was produced at Hampstead Theatre in 2000, and in 2002; Mappa Mundi (2002) opened at the Royal National Theatre. Her latest play, Enlightenment, opened at Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 2005.

Performances for FIVE KINDS OF SILENCE begin with a preview on Wednesday, November 12, press night on Thursday, November 13, and the public opening on November 14, 2008. Performances continue through the Thanksgiving holiday and closes on November 30. Performances take place on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM. On Sundays, matinee performances are at 3PM.

The play contains explicit sexual situations - viewer discretion is advised. Performances are in English with Spanish super titles. General Admission is $18.  Tickets can be purchased via phone: 212-505-1808 or online at www.teatrocirculo.org

ABOUT BOUNDLESS THEATRE COMPANY

Founded in 2006, Boundless Theatre Company believes that theater needs to be inquisitive and innovative. They are a multi-ethnic, multilingual, designer-led organization committed to creating new productions of existing work that pushes the boundaries of cultural conception, gender and sexual identity. They are dedicated to the reinvention of stories, and the creation of imaginative, visually mesmerizing theater that serves the community.

ABOUT TLALOC RIVAS

Tlaloc Rivas (Director) recent productions include the critically-acclaimed off-Broadway production of Summer & Smoke for Big Sky Theater Company, Generic Hispanic for Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, A Contribution To Domestic Architecture for Vital Theater Company, The Dumb Waiter for Ward 10, Crimes Against Humanity and Lonesome for NYU's First Look Theater Company and undone for INTAR – all in Manhattan. Rivas was the artistic director of Venture Theater in Philadelphia, where he directed the Barrymore Award-winning El Paso Blue by Octavio Solis and Steven Dietz's Rocket Man. He has worked with El Teatro Campesino, The Public Theater, The Wilma Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theater, The Group Theatre (Artistic Associate, 1996-98), Penobscot Theater Company, McCarter Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Tlaloc is a member of NoPassport — a theatre alliance devoted to cross-cultural action, advocacy and change — where his participation in the "Brownout" panel on ethnicity and performance was featured in the April 2008 issue of American Theater. He is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz — where he received the UC Regents Presidential Award, Chancellor's Honors and Dean of the Arts Award for his production of Luis Valdez's The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa — and received his MFA in Directing from the University of Washington's School of Drama.

The cast will feature James Chen, Beatriz Córdoba, Stephen Hansen, Lanna Joffrey, Kate Kertez and Mónica Pérez Brandes

The production is directed by Tlaloc Rivas with lighting design by María Cristina Fusté, set design by Jorge Dieppa, costume design by Sarita Fellows,  and original music & sound design by Brian McCorkle.

Photo Credit Tequila Mockingbird

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