Helluva Theatre Company to Stage Unique MAJOR BARBARA at Medicine Show
Helluva Theatre Company presents, in collaboration with Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble, George Bernard Shaw's MAJOR BARBARA at Medicine Show Theatre (549 West 52nd Street, Third Floor, New York, NY 10019) from November 12th to November 29th, 2016.
MAJOR BARBARA as you've never seen it before. Erica Gould's unique production drives Bernard Shaw through an original theatrical landscape with raucous hilarity at breakneck speed and takes a motley crew of extraordinary characters to the edge of reason. Hold on to your hat. Bernard Shaw supercharged.
Helluva Theatre Company's inaugural production forces us to question our assumptions about right and wrong, religion and money. Shaw's comic family excavation of fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, ex-wives and estranged husbands is joyously confronted in a production that puts the fun in dysfunction.
Class and privilege, morality and religion, the welfare state, war and peace. On the heels of a bruising election cycle, when we've been presented with the truth as false and the false as true-MAJOR BARBARA is a more potent cocktail than ever. Drink up.
CAST:
Barbara Undershaft: Zoe Anastassiou
Stephen Undershaft: Jarrod Bates
Peter Shirley/Morrison: Joel Bernstein*
Mrs. Baines: Carla Briscoe*
Snobby Price/Bilton: Richard Brundage*
Bill Walker: Jared Culverhouse*
Adolphus Cusins: Richard Emerson
Lady Britomart Undershaft: Kate Grimes*
Andrew Undershaft: John Martello*
Charles Lomax: Ben Sheedy
Rummy Mitchens: Laralu Smith*
Sarah Undershaft: Sophie Sorensen
Jenny Hill: Erica Twiss
*these Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
CREATIVE TEAM:
Director: Erica Gould*
Stage Manager: Whitney Rich
Lighting Designer: Stuart Burgess
Design Consultant: Bradley Wehrle
Wardrobe Assistant: Beth Griffith
Graphic Designer: Florin Penisoara
*the Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union
For tickets and more information, visit www.majorbarbara2016.brownpapertickets.com, or contact Medicine Show Theatre directly at 212-262-4216 or by emailing medicineshow@medicineshowtheatre.org. Price: $18 - general seating.
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