ONE YEAR LEASE THEATER COMPANY’S HIT PRODUCTION OF
pool (no water)
BY MARK RAVENHILL
RETURNS FOR A LIMITED RUN IN NYC AT BARROW STREET THEATRE
FOLLOWING A RUN AT A.R.T. IN BOSTON
OCTOBER 21–NOVEMBER 24, 2014
27 BARROW STREET at 7th AVENUE
One Year Lease Theater Company brings their sold-out critically-acclaimed 2012 production of pool (no water) back to NYC for a limited Off-Broadway run from October 21-November 24 at Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue South). Written by controversial English playwright Mark Ravenhill and directed by Ianthe Demos, pool (no water) will be arriving in NYC from a run at A.R.T.’s Oberon in Boston.
pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success. A famous artist invites old friends to her luxurious new home for a long awaited reunion. But the celebration comes to an abrupt end when the host suffers a horrific accident. An almost unthinkable plan starts to take shape: could her suffering be the group’s next work of art?
Commissioned and co-directed in 2006 by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett (choreographer of Broadway’s The Glass Menagerie, Rocky, Once, Peter and the Starcatcher and American Idiot & director of What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined) for their British theater company Frantic Assembly, pool (no water) is an unflinching look at the vulnerability of friendship, the power of resentment, and a deep-seated yearning to create something truly memorable.
The cast includes Estelle Bajou, Eric Berryman, Nick Flint, Maja Wampuszyc and Richard Saudek. The production features choreography and movement direction by Natalie Lomonte, music by Estelle Bajou, set design by James Hunting, lighting design by Mike Riggs, costume design by Kenisha Kelly, and multi-media design by Scott J. Fetterman.
pool (no water) will run October 21-November 24 at Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue South) and play according to the following schedule: Sunday – Tuesday at 7:30pm; Saturdays at 2:30 pm. Tickets are $20-65 and can be arranged online at www.smarttix.com or by calling (212) 868-4444, and at the Barrow Street Theatre box office, open 1pm daily, at 27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue South in the heart of Greenwich Village. Nearby subway stops are the 1 at Christopher Street (walk 1 block South on 7th Avenue to Barrow) and the A, C, E, B, D, F and M at West 4th (walk West on 4th Street, left on Barrow). $20 Student tickets are available in advance via Smarttix, or day-of at the box office - one ticket per ID. For more information, please visit www.oneyearlease.org.
"Three cheers for the small but ambitious One Year Lease Theater Company for bringing this terrific 2006 play to local shores, in a vividly acted production. . ."
- Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
"Full of perceptive commentary on the tension between affection and antipathy among friends — and the interior tensions in the individual soul between self-love and self-hate."
- Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
"In 60 minutes of shadow-cut theatrical witchcraft, Demos and her superb cast make Ravenhill's vinegary misanthropy dance, literally and figuratively."
-Scott Brown, NY Magazine
MARK RAVENHILL (playwright and co-creator of hit TV series Vicious) is an internationally acclaimed playwright whose first full-length play, Shopping and F*cking, opened at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1996. His more recent works include Mother Clap's Molly House (National Theatre, 2001); Product (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2005); The Cut (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2006); Citizenship (National Theatre, 2006); pool (no water) (Lyric Hammersmith, 2006); Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (Edinburgh Festival, 2007); Over There (Royal Court / Schaubühne, Berlin, 2009); A Life in Three Acts co-written and performed with Bette Bourne (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh / Konninklijke Schouwburg, The Hague / Soho Theatre, London, 2009 and St Ann's Warehouse, New York, 2010); Nationadapt. from the Terry Pratchett novel (National Theatre, 2009); Ten Plagues, a liberetto for a new opera by Conor Mitchell (Royal Court, 2010 / Traverse Theatre 2011); Ghost Story (Playhouse: Live, Sky Arts, Riverside Studios 2010); The Coronation of Poppea a liberetto co-written with Alex Silverman (OperaUpClose, Kings Head Theatre, 2011). Mark is currently under commission to the RSC and Hampstead Theatre and is writing a new libretto for the Norwegian National Opera. His plays are performed all over the world.
ONE YEAR LEASE THEATER COMPANY (OYL) premieres bold international works of theater in NYC. We advocate physically powerful, ensemble-based theater while creating worlds that are raw, poetic and visceral. In the last two years OYL has premiered four productions in NYC – Bryony Lavery’s Stockholm, Mark Ravenhill’s pool (no water), Gary Henderson’s Skin Tight and Pamela Carter’s What We Know. OYL runs a summer education program annually in northern Greece for American college students. Since 2007 over 65 students have participated from 18 colleges and universities across the United States. www.oneyearlease.org
Tickets for pool (no water) are $20-65 and can be arranged online at www.smarttix.com or by calling (212) 868-4444, and at the Barrow Street Theatre box office, open 1pm daily, at 27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue South.
Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission.
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