Photo Flash: First Look at spit&vigor's THE EXECUTION OF MRS. COTTON at IRT Theater
NYIT award-winning company members of spit&vigor present THE EXECUTION OF MRS. COTTON, written by Sara Fellini and directed by Samuel Adams. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
THE EXECUTION OF MRS COTTON by Sara Fellini tells the story of the life and times of Elva Zona Heaster Cotton, a serial killer in a gothic postbellum South. She preys, as all serial killers do, on victims who are most vulnerable to her: her husbands and children. By taking a sympathetic look at the art of killing, this play deals with the value of women's work, their art, and their voices, and explores how several working-class men could become vulnerable to a female serial killer, an artist in her own right, while the world around them rapidly industrializes.
From NYIT-award winning company members that produced IN VESTMENTS, acclaimed by the NYTimes as "wrenching and visually eloquent", is one part ghost story, one part courtroom drama, one part full scale execution of the strange life of Elva Zona Heaster, an artist with the grotesque and macabre art form of serial murder by arsenic poisoning. Live musicians perform arrangements by Austin-based composer C.W.K., with lyrics by Sara Fellini.
The cast features Samuel Adams (MildrEd Pierce, Boardwalk Empire), Adam Belvo (Planet Connections award-winning actor), Zina Ellis, Sara Fellini (Planet Connections Best Actress nominee), Jennifer Fouché (Sistas The Musical, The Mysteries of Laura), Cairo George, John Hardin (NYIT Best Actor nominee), Linnea Larsdotter (winner Best Actress - NYLA international independent film festival), Wes Mason, Kelly McCready, Costa Nicholas, and Sarah Ellen Stephens.
The musical arrangements include compositions by C.W.K., live performance by Wes Mason and violin extemporization by Sarah Ellen Stephens.
THE EXECUTION OF MRS. COTTON will be presented Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 PM July 14-31 with one 3PM matinee on Sunday, July 24th (there will no evening performance on July 24th). The performances will be held at IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street, Manhattan, buzzer 3B, off the Christopher Street Path Station, or a few blocks from the Christopher Street 1 stop) as part of IRT Theater's 3B Residency series. Tickets are $15. For advance reservations, email spitnvigor@gmail.com or visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2562944. For more, go to www.spitnvigor.com.
Sara Ellen Stephens and Linnea Larsdotter
Cairo George, Adam Belvo, Samuel Adams, John Hardin, Wes Mason, Sara Fellini
Adam Belvo, Wes Mason, Sara Fellini, Samuel Adams
Wes Mason, Samuel Adams, Sara Fellini, Zina Ellis
Wes Mason, Cairo George, Samuel Adams, Sara Fellini, Adam Belvo, John Hardin, Zina Ellis, Jennifer Fouche, Linnea Larsdotter
Cairo George, John Hardin, Adam Belvo, Jennifer Fouche, Wes Mason, Sarah Ellen Stephens, Sara Fellini, Linnea Larsdotter
Linnea Larsdotter, John Hardin, Cairo George, Adam Belvo, Wes Mason, Sarah Ellen Stephens, Jennifer Fouche, Sara Fellini
John Hardin, Cairo George, Wes Mason, Sara Fellini, Samuel Adams, Adam Belvo
Adam Belvo, Sara Fellini, Linnea Larsdotter, Cairo George, Wes Mason
Sara Fellini and Adam Belvo
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