Hare's SKYLIGHT Opens At The Ashby Stage 3/27

Winner of the prestigious Olivier Award, David Hare's Skylight wrestles with the complexity of modern romance. Can two people salvage their passion without sacrificing their ideals? Which is ultimately more important? The best love stories aren't clean and simple. They're the ones that make it hurt so good. Skylight opens Friday, March 27th at 8PM and runs Thursday through Sunday through April 26th at The Ashby Stage in Berkeley.

Intimacy, morality and class dynamics are at the heart of David Hare’s kitchen sink drama about the perils of deep affection. Having lost his wife to cancer, Tom, a successful restaurant owner, and his son Edward each go looking for the woman who vanished from their lives. Over the course of one intense and passionate evening, Kyra, who has managed to extricate herself completely from their family, is visited by both son and father. Her way of life has become unrecognizable, and her choices difficult to reconcile. Shotgun creates the ultimate voyeuristic experience on a stage which expands Kyra’s apartment to include the audience.
At first glance Skylight might seem like a straight romantic drama. But leave it to the ingenious David Hare to add a razor sharp examination of attitudes towards education, where we spend our money and the struggle of relationships that breach economic divisions. In short, Skylight is a class struggle expressed as a love affair.

David Hare has enjoyed a long and successful life in theater and film. He was a resident dramatist at London’s Royal Court Theater in the early seventies and went on to found The Joint Stock Company in 1975. Since 1984 he has been the Associate Director of The National Theatre. Hare's awards include the BAFTA Award (1979), the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (1983), the Berlin Film FestivAl Golden Bear (1985), the Olivier Award (1990), and the London Theatre Critics' Award (1990). He was knighted in 1998. This season he’s been nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay of The Reader (2008) based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink.
The cast of Skylight features Shotgun company member John Mercer (Macbeth, Blood Wedding, Owners,) as well as Emily Jordan (Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Owners) and Carl Holvick-Thomas.

The production will be directed by Shotgun Artistic Director Patrick Dooley, with costumes designed by Emily Greene, Set Design by Torben Torp-Smith, Light Design by Masha Tsimring, Sound Design by Jesse S Clark. Christine Bloodgood will stage manage.

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