'THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD' Opens At The Mint 2/4

THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD
By D.H. Lawrence
Directed by Stuart Howard

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"A tremendous, yet simple, dramatic experience. This is a moving play about the tension between men and women: the essential misunderstandings and the necessary needs. It contrasts the power of sexuality with the power of peace. And neither wins."
- Clive Barnes, The New York Times, 1973

About The Mint's Production:

Mint Theater Company introduced New York audiences to D. H. Lawrence -the playwright- with our highly acclaimed production of The Daughter-in-Law which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival and was named one of the highlights of 2003 by The New York Times.

Audiences and critics alike were surprised to learn that Lawrence had written a play-in fact he wrote eight. Only two were produced in his lifetime, both in small productions; Lawrence was not able to see either. Lawrence was frustrated by his inability to find a producer willing to take a chance on him. "I believe that just as an audience was found in Russia for Chekhov, so an audience might be found in England for some of my stuff, if there were a man to whip ‘em in. It's the producer that is lacking, not the audience."

When Mint took its chance on Lawrence, that assessment proved prophetic. The first fifty-four performances of The Daughter-in-Law were sold-out and a run that was only scheduled to run six weeks continued for twenty.
In February 2009, Mint Theater Company will bring you another Lawrence masterpiece, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. When this heart wrenching romance received its American Premiere at the Long Wharf Theater in 1973, Clive Barnes' review in The New York Times was rhapsodic:
"It is perfectly possible that one of the most important playwrights of the nineteen-seventies will turn out to be a man who died in 1935. The name is D.H. Lawrence.
"Lawrence-as anyone who read his novels might have guessed-was a natural playwright. Mrs. Holroyd was written in 1914 and unsuccessfully produced in 1920. Perhaps it was in advance of its time. It is realistic and factual....It hews at the playwright's past like a miner at the coal face. In this way it has the tortured remembrances of an O'Neill. And the language is that of a sparse and spare poet who chose prose.
"Mrs. Holroyd (we never `learn her first name) has come to hate her husband. He is a miner. She is slightly better educated, and in a slightly different social class. He is an attractive man-but he drinks and goes with other women. Another coal worker-an electrician rather than a miner-wants to take her two children away to Spain.

"Lawrence is a writer of spasmodic but infinite insight. There are times when you wonder where he is wandering. Yet there are other times, the important times, when you see that he has defined the co-existential worlds of men and women (that supreme cosmic joke) with quite surgical precision. Scalpels are wielded, blood is let, but everything is sewn up as tidily as the victim's condition will allow.
"This is a moving play about the tension between men and women: the essential misunderstandings and the necessary needs. It contrasts the power of sexuality with the power of peace. And neither wins, although at the end there is some kind of compassionate understanding of two wasted lives.
"It is a bold writer who tells the story of his play in the title, but Lawrence was in no way a conventional playwright. He depicted men and women as he knew them in a background he remembered. Here it results in a domestic tragedy-small-scale but deeply etched."
Please make plans to join us for this deeply moving, deeply personal play by one of the most important and powerful of modernist writers, D.H. Lawrence

"As moving as anything I have seen in a theatre." - Derek Malcom, The Guardian, 1966

$35 February 4th-7th
(Matinees 2/7 and 2/8 sold out)
$45 for all tickets Feb 8th - Mar 29th*
*If you order before Jan 1st. (regular price $55 per ticket) Performances begin on February 4th
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