Year of the Rooster – Location, Tickets, Reviews
UPDATE – December 3, 2013
If you missed Eric Dufault’s Year of the Rooster before it closed in November, we were gonna feel bad for you, but you’ve been given a second chance. This hilarious, aggressive, and moving new play is returning to Ensemble Studio Theatre on January 9th for an extended run (through February 1st). We advise you get tickets now and head up to EST after the New Year to take advantage of this well-deserved extension.
UPDATE – November 12, 2013
Better late than never – the New York Times finally discovered the spectacular Year of the Rooster and posted a rave review. We don’t want to gloat and say that we found this sensational show before the Paper of Record. But we did.
ORIGINAL POST – October 28, 2013
If you’re bummed about the lack of elegantly made, beautifully performed classical dramas in town this season, head over to Ensemble Studio Theatre immediately. Year of the Rooster, EST’s new play by Eric Dufault, is cut from the same cloth as the best of Greek drama, with gorgeously written tragic characters, torrents of raw emotion, and the agonizing recognition of how fate responds to man’s choices.
It’s masterful traditional theater, and one of the best plays of the year. Oh, and did we mention its hero is a cock-fighting rooster?
It’s bewildering – but the same play that stars a roided-out, tortured fighting bird (Bobby Moreno in a stellar performance) is also one of the most efficiently written dramas and funniest comedies onstage in recent memory.
Recommended if…
- You love abrasive, foul-mouthed comedy;
- You want to want to see the work of a bright new playwright before he inevitably gets snapped up by a more expensive theater;
- You like traditional theatrical forms but ingeniously original content; OR
- You want to see how two actors in football pads and feathers thrillingly recreate the brutality of a cockfight.
LOCATION
Ensemble Studio Theatre
549 W 52nd Street
New York City
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RUNNING TIME
1 hour 45 minutes, 1 intermission
TICKETS
$25.00 (click here for tickets)
DATES
January 9 – February 1, 2014
NEWS & REVIEWS
Reviews
New York Times
He Struts, but His Comb is Trembling
News
Ensemble Studio Theatre
Interview with playwright Eric Dufault
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Written by Eric Dufault
Directed by John Giampietro
Featuring Denny Dale Bess, Delphi Harrington, Thomas Lyons, Bobby Moreno and Megan Tusing