Signature Theatre Announces 2014-2015 Season
Signature Theatre announced eight new productions for its 2014-2015 season, including two plays by A.R. Gurney and two plays by Naomi Wallace, as well as plays by Charles Mee, Sam Shepard, Athol Fugard, and Katori Hall.
Wallace and Gurney’s plays will be produced as part of the theater’s Residency One program, which stages multiple works by a single playwright. Gurney and Wallace will also each present a third production in Signature’s 2015-2016 season.
Plays in the 2014-2015 Signature Theater season (descriptions provided by Signature Theatre):
The Wayside Motors by A. R. Gurney
Outside Boston, ten people—some strangers, some not—struggle with the circumstances that have brought them to the Wayside Motor Inn. With old grudges and new feuds threatening the travelers’ peace, this funny and moving work kicks off A. R. Gurney’s Signature Residency by examining the tenuous space between loneliness and connection, and the fragile framework of the American Dream.
What I Did Last Summer by A. R. Gurney
With her husband overseas near the end of World War II, Grace fights to save the splintering bonds of her family by taking her teenage son and daughter to spend the summer on Lake Erie. When her son takes up with the town outcast, the entire family must confront the expectations of a society that holds conformity in the highest regard. Grace finds that her attempt to restore normalcy may have only fractured their relationships further.
And I And Silence by Naomi Wallace (U.S. Premiere)
Two imprisoned teenagers, one black, one white, form a perilous bond. As the young women serve time, they forge a plan for survival. When the outside world proves even more dangerous than the jail itself, their private world becomes an untenable practice ground for their new lives. And I And Silenceexplores the fierce dreams of youth and the brutal reality of adulthood in 1950’s America.
The Liquid Plain by Naomi Wallace
On the docks of late 18th century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves, Adjua and Dembi, plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. When a chance encounter triggers an unexpected collision of worlds, painful truths are uncovered and the brutality of past crimes spills into the next generation. Winner of the 2012 Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play,The Liquid Plain brings to life a group of people whose stories have been erased from history.
A Particle of Dread by Sam Shepard (U.S. Premiere)
Signature and Ireland’s renowned Field Day Theatre Company are thrilled to present the U.S. premiere of 1996-97 Playwright-in-Residence Sam Shepard’s A Particle of Dread. This dark, fragmented, modern-day take onOedipus Rex premiered in Derry, Ireland and features Academy Award-nominee Stephen Rea in the canonical central role, alongside a cast of actors from both sides of the Atlantic.
Big Love by Charles Mee
Fifty brides flee their fifty grooms and seek refuge in an Italian villa in this modern re-making of one of the world’s oldest plays, The Danaids by Aeschylus. Mayhem ensues, complete with grooms in flight suits, women throwing themselves to the ground, occasional pop songs and romantic dances – even a bride falling in love. Reuniting Signature’s 2007-08 Playwright-in-Residence Charles Mee with his longtime collaborator Tina Landau, Big Love is a colossal, poetic work that explores the hunger for independence, the burden of tradition, and the shape and size of love.
Our Lady of Kibeho by Katori Hill (world premiere)
In 1981, a village girl in Rwanda claims to see the Virgin Mary. Ostracized by her schoolmates and labeled disturbed, everyone refuses to believe, until the impossible starts happening again and again. Skepticism gives way to fear, faith, and fate, causing upheaval in the school community and beyond. Based on real events, Our Lady of Kibeho is the second production of Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall’s Residency at Signature.
Signature Theatre will announce the name and details for the world premiere of a new play by Athol Fugard at a later date.
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LOCATION
Pershing Square Signature Center
480 West 42nd Street
New York City
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