| BRITISH PLAYWRIGHT TORBEN BETTS ARRIVES FROM UK TO PARTICIPATE IN SURROUND EVENTS FOR NY PREMIERE OF HIS PLAY "MUSWELL HILL" AT THE BARROW GROUP | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:31 am EST 11/24/17 | |
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| BRITISH PLAYWRIGHT TORBEN BETTS TO PARTICIPATE IN SURROUND EVENTS FOR THE BARROW GROUP THEATRE COMPANY & THE POND THEATRE COMPANY NEW YORK PREMIERE OF HIS PLAY “MUSWELL HILL” Q&A AT THE DRAMA BOOK SHOP (250 WEST 40TH STREET) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 @ 2:30PM POST PERFORMANCE TALK BACK WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 (IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING 8PM SHOW) NOW IN PERFORMANCE THROUGH DECEMBER 16, 2017 AT TBG THEATRE (312 WEST 36TH STREET) British playwright Torben Betts arrives from across the pond to attend a performance of his play Muswell Hill, which is enjoying its New York Premiere in a co-production between The Barrow Group Theatre Company (Seth Barrish and Lee Brock, Co-Artistic Directors; Robert Serrell, Executive Director), and The Pond Theatre Company at The TBG Theatre (312 West 36th Street), and to take part in two special surround events related to the production. On Tuesday, November 28th at 2:30pm, Mr. Betts will be at The Drama Book Shop (250 West 40th Street – between 7th & 8th Avenues) to participate in a Q&A with members of the cast to discuss Muswelll Hill, as well as his distinguished career. It will be moderated by Lily Dorment, Co-Founder of The Pond Theatre Company. The event is free of charge. To RSVP, please email info@thepondtheatre.org. Mr. Betts will attend the show on Wednesday, November 29th at 8pm, and immediately following the performance participate in a post-performance discussion, moderated by playwright Arlene Hutton. The talk back is free of charge to ticket holders. “Torben Betts is one of the most talked-about and prolific playwrights in Britain at the moment,” says Colleen Clinton, a co-founder of The Pond Theatre Company. “We are thrilled to introduce his work to a wider audience with the New York premiere of Muswell Hill, a play that resonates so strongly in today’s social and political climate, and we are delighted that New York audiences will have the opportunity to meet Torben at these two events.” Directed by Shannon Patterson, the six-member cast features Jason Alan Carvell (War Horse), as Mat, Colleen Clinton (Proof) as Jess, Lily Dorment (Abigail’s Party) as Karen, Richard Hollis (The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time) as Simon, John Pirkis (“Blue Bloods”) as Tony, and Sarah Street (Abigail’s Party) as Annie. Performances began November 11, 2017 for a limited engagement through Saturday, December 16, 2017 at The Barrow Group Mainstage Theatre (312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor). Opening Night was celebrated on Monday, November 20, 2017 at 7:00PM. Following the sold-out run of Abigail’s Party last fall, The Barrow Group Theatre Company and The Pond Theatre Company reunite to present the New York premiere of Muswell Hill by Torben Betts. Set in the leafy north London suburb of Muswell Hill, a dinner party turns dangerously fraught, yet increasingly comical, as the host and guests rattle their upper middle class complacency to a point of no return. Amidst this domestic disaster, an earthquake in a developing nation rocks the rest of the world. How can they justify their everyday worries in an ever more fragile world? Torben Betts is a multi award-winning British playwright, described by Alan Ayckbourn as “one of the most exciting theatre writing talents I have come across in many a year.” The creative team for Muswell Hill includes: Edward T. Morris (set), Kristin Isola (costumes), Solomon Weisbard (lights), Matt Otto (sound) and Addison Heeren (props/video design). The Production Stage Manager is Allison Raynes. Muswell Hill will play the following performance schedule: Monday at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday at 7:00 p.m. Single tickets for Muswell Hill are priced at $35 (Premium Seats) & $25 and are available by visiting the website at www.barrowgroup.org or by calling OvationTix at 866-811-4111. BIOS Torben Betts (Playwright) Theatre credits include: The National Joke, (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough) Invincible (Orange Tree Theatre and St James Theatre, London, Brits-off-Broadway); What Falls Apart (Live Theatre, Newcastle); Get Carter (Northern Stage); The Seagull (Regent’s Park Open Air); A Listening Heaven (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum, nominated as TMA Best New Play 2001); The Unconquered (Traverse/Tron/Brits-off-Broadway/UK tour, winner of Best New Play at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland, 2007); Muswell Hill (Orange Tree Theatre and Park Theatre, London); The Company Man (Orange Tree Theatre); The Error of their Ways (HERE Arts Center, New York); Lie of the Land (Arcola Theatre, London/Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh); The Swing of Things; Her Slightest Touch (both Stephen Joseph Theatre); Incarcerator (Battersea Arts Centre, London); The Lunatic Queen (Riverside Studios, London); Five Visions of the Faithful (Edinburgh Festival Theatre); Clockwatching (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); The Biggleswades (Southwark Playhouse), Silence and Violence (White Bear Theatre, London). In 2018 his latest play Monogamy will be produced at London’s Park Theatre, alongside his versions of The Misanthrope at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate and Boeing Boeing at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough. His plays have been performed around the world and to date have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Finnish, Czech, Polish and Portuguese. Torben wrote the screenplay for the British independent feature film Downhill, which was released in cinemas in May 2014. He is represented by Independent Talent Group, London and is published by Oberon Books, London. The Barrow Group has won numerous awards, including a Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award, and received numerous nominations over the years. Past company members and alumni have won Academy, Emmy, Tony, OBIE, and Lucille Lortel Awards. The Company has received support from the W Trust, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Dramatists Guild, the Jewish Communal Fund, the Dramatists Play Service, the Citrin Foundation, the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment of the Arts, and the American Theatre Wing. Thirty-one years old, The Barrow Group is a thriving non-profit, with a strong Board of Trustees, making a meaningful contribution to New York City’s cultural landscape. The Barrow Group Theatre Company and School offers theatre patrons and performing arts students an artistic experience focused on simplicity, clarity, and spontaneity in their 10,000 sf. arts center in midtown Manhattan. The Pond Theatre Company presents US premieres of plays by emerging British and Irish playwrights and provides a context for those works through the revival of modern classics. Founded by an international group of actors from the UK, Ireland and the United States, The Pond is dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging playwrights whose work may have been produced in the UK or Ireland but who have had few, if any, opportunities to present their work to US audiences. |
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