Marin Theatre Company Extends THE OLDEST BOY
Marin Theatre Company's 49th Season opener, the West Coast premiere of Sarah Ruhl's The Oldest Boy, is now extending through Sunday October 11th based on popular demand. The story surrounds an American woman and her Tibetan husband making a life together in the United States with their son, who has just turned three. When two monks arrive on their doorstep with the revelation that the toddler may be a reincarnated lama, the ultimate test of a mother's love may be her ability to let him go. Interspersed with Tibetan Buddhist ritual and dance and featuring renowned Berkeley-based Tibetan artist Tsering Dorjee Bawa, the play is as powerful as it is beautiful.
More about The Oldest Boy and Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl's plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee for best new play), The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2005; The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004); Passion Play, a cycle (Pen American award, The Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center); Dead Man's Cell Phone (Helen Hayes award); Melancholy Play; Eurydice; Orlando; Demeter in the City (NAACP nomination), and most recently, Stage Kiss and Dear Elizabeth. Her work has been frequently produced in the Bay Area, including numerous productions at Berkeley Rep.
A recipient of the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize , a 2006 MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship and the 2008 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for Playwright in Mid-Career , Sarah Ruhl "aspires to reclaim the audience's atrophied imagination... Her plays are bold. Her nonlinear form of realism is full of astonishments, surprises and mysteries." (The New Yorker).
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