| Transport Group's STRANGE INTERLUDE Adds Performances - Opening Set for October 21 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 05:09 pm EDT 10/09/17 | |
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| TRANSPORT GROUP’S STRANGE INTERLUDE ADDS PERFORMANCES PRODUCTION SET TO OPEN OCTOBER 21 Due to ticket demand Transport Group, the Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle, and OBIE award-winning theatre company, has added performances to its run of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Strange Interlude. Performances have been added on three Thursdays—November 2, 9, and 16. Conceived as a six-hour, one-man tour-de-force—uncut and unabridged—performed by David Greenspan and directed by Jack Cummings III, Strange Interlude is set to open Saturday, October 21, at 5:00pm at the Irondale Theater Center, 85 S. Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The production plays through Saturday, November 18. Strange Interlude tells the story of Nina Leeds whose life crumbles when her true love is killed in World War I. Flitting from one man to the next until settling for a life she never wanted, Nina is stalked by the fantasy of the happiness she never shared with her late fiancé. This saga from 1928 follows the lives of eight characters over the course of a half-century, and Transport Group’s production incorporates the fragmented identities of each of these characters, and their colliding inner and outer lives over an entire lifetime, into a single performer, and turns one of O’Neill’s most ambitious works into a theatrical event. The set and costume design for Strange Interlude is by Dane Laffrey; the lighting design is by Jennifer Schriever. The dramaturg is by Kristina Corcoran Williams; the production stage manager is Ben Andersen. David Greenspanhas performed solo renditions of Barry Conners’s 1925 comedy The Patsy (Transport Group), Gertrude Stein’s lecture Plays (The Foundry), a program of Stein lectures and a playlet Composition...Masterpieces...Identity (Target Margin) and his solo plays Jonas (Transport Group), The Myopia (The Foundry) and The Argument (Target Margin). He has acted in his plays Dead Mother (NYSF/Public Theater), She Stoops to Comedy and Go Back to Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons) and I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees (Abrons Arts Center). Additional credits include premieres by David Adjmi, Sarah Ruhl, Adam Rapp, Stephin Merritt, William Hoffman, Terrence McNally, Linda Chapman and Kate Moira Ryan, David Grimm, Kathleen Tolan, Paul Zimet and Ellen Maddow, Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman, Jeffrey M. Jones—and his association with the work of director David Herskovits at Target Margin Theater. He enjoys close collaborative relationships with directors Leigh Silverman and Jack Cummings III and is the recipient of Guggenheim and Fox fellowships, Alpert and Lambda Literary awards and five OBIES. Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953) began writing for the stage early in the 20th century when the American theatre was dominated by vaudeville and romantic melodramas. Influenced by Strindberg, Ibsen, and other European playwrights, O’Neill vowed to create a theatre in America, stripped of false sentimentality, which would explore the deepest stirrings of the human spirit. In 1914, he wrote: “I want to be an artist or nothing.” During the 1920s, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for three of his plays–Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, and Strange Interlude. Other popular successes, including The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms, The Great God Brown, and Mourning Becomes Electra, brought him international acclaim. In 1936, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature–the only American playwright to be so honored. O’Neill experimented with new dramatic techniques and dared tackle such controversial issues as interracial marriage, the equality of the sexes, the power of the unconscious mind, and the hold of materialism on the American soul. In each of his plays, he sought to reveal the mysterious forces “behind life” which shape human destiny. Three of his final works, written at Tao House, tower over the others: The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. These autobiographical plays portray, with “faithful realism,” the haunting figures of his father, mother, and brother who loom in the background of most of his other plays. He was awarded a fourth Pulitzer Prize, posthumously, in 1956 for Long Day’s Journey into Night. In a career that spanned three decades, Eugene O’Neill changed the American theatre forever. Jack Cummings III is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Transport Group. Most recent: Benny & Joon at The Old Globe. Favorite TG credits include Queen of the Mist by Michael John LaChuisa (world premiere), See Rocky City & Other Destinations (New York premiere), The Audience (conceiver, world premiere), Normal (world premiere), Marcy in the Galaxy (world premiere), Three Days To See (author/conceiver, word premiere), as well as revivals of I Remember Mama, Hello Again, First Lady Suite, Once Upon A Mattress, Almost, Maine, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Boys in the Band, and Our Town. Other New York credits include the world premiere of Terrence McNally’s And Away We Go (Pearl Theatre Company), 1,000 Words Come To Mind (Inner Voices, world premiere), and Arlington (Inner Voices, world premiere). He received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary, and M.F.A. from The University of Virginia. He is married to actress Barbara Walsh. Transport Groupis the recipient of a special Drama Desk Award recognizing its "breadth of vision and presentation of challenging productions" as well as numerous other awards and award nominations from the Outer Critics’ Circle, Lucille Lortel Awards, OBIE Awards, Off-Broadway Alliance, Drama League, and others. Founded in 2001, Transport Group stages new works and re-imagined revivals—both plays and musicals—that explore the challenges of relationship and identity in modern America. Currently headed by founder Jack Cummings III (Artistic Director) and Lori Fineman (Executive Director), Transport Group most recently produced Picnic & Come Back, Little Sheba: William Inge in Rep, which garnered critical acclaim, two Drama Desk nominations, and three OBIE Award wins (Jack Cummings III for direction, Heather Mac Rae for performance, Dane Laffrey for scenic design). Additional recent productions include the first off-Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress, starring Jackie Hoffman and John “Lypsinka” Epperson; Three Days To See, a world premiere theatrical exploration of Helen Keller through her own writings; the critically acclaimed revival of John Cariani’s modern classic Almost, Maine; and a re-imagined revival of the John Van Druten classic I Remember Mama which was included in the New York Times' Top Ten productions of 2014 and The New Yorker's top cultural moments of 2014. In addition to mainstage productions, Transport Group also produces one-night-only, star-studded concert events, often featuring the productions' original orchestrations performed by as many as 60 actors and musicians. Concert titles have included Baby(2012), Once Upon a Mattress (2013), The Music Man(2014), Peter Pan(2016) andA Man of No Importance (2016). Next up for Transport Group includes a co-production of Tennessee Williams’s Summer and Smoke with Classic Stage Company in spring 2018. Strange Interlude performs Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at 5:00pm (and Thursdays in November at 5pm) at the Irondale Theater Center, 85 S. Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn. (To get to Irondale, C train to Lafayette Avenue; B, D, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4, or 5 train to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street; G train to Fulton Street.) The production plays Friday, October 6 through Saturday, November 18. Please note that the running time of Strange Interlude is six hours, including intermissions and a 30-minute dinner break. The play will come down at approximately 11:00pm. VIP reserved and general admission tickets are available, with an option to add on dinner from Greene Grape Market. Tickets start at $59. For ticket, performance schedule, and more information, visit www.transportgroup.org. |
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