| 59E59 Theaters announces productions for 2020 Brits Off Broadway | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:26 am EST 02/18/20 | |
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| 59E59 Theaters announces productions for the 2020 Brits Off Broadway season New work from Alan Bennett, New Diorama Theatre, Jon Brittain, and more on tap New York, New York February 18, 2020-59E59 Theaters (Val Day, Artistic Director; Brian Beirne, Managing Director) is thrilled to announce the line-up of shows for 2020's Brits Off Broadway, the critically acclaimed festival dedicated to featuring the UK's most innovative and provocative Off West End theater in New York City. Brits Off Broadway begins on Tuesday, April 14 and runs through Sunday, June 28. The single ticket prices range from $25 - $70 ($20 - $49 for 59E59 Members). Tickets to Brits Off Broadway go on sale on Tuesday, February 25 at Noon, with a special pre-sale for 59E59 Members beginning Tuesday, February 18 at Noon. Tickets are available by calling 59E59 Theaters Box Office on 646-892-7999 or online at www.59e59.org. 59E59 Theater's annual spring season dedicated to premiering new work by innovative UK companies returns. Since the launch in 2004 with Tim Crouch's critically-acclaimed My Arm, 59E59 has hosted more than 130 British productions, garnering a reputation for consistently presenting the finest Off West End work on American soil. The 2020 season is co-curated with the London-based New Diorama Theatre-a company dedicated to championing new and emerging theater companies-and reflects the excellence in production by some of the most vital and exciting stories coming from the UK at present. This year's lineup is dominated by five outstanding companies making their US debuts with wildly contrasting styles that are already acclaimed in the UK. Balancing out the program are familiar names including the US premiere of The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett (The History Boys and The Madness of King George). Following his 2017 Olivier Award win, writer Jon Brittain (Rotterdam) returns with his musical A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad). New Diorama Theatre brings the US premiere of The Incident Room, Olivia Hirst and David Byrne's (Secret Life of Humans) true-crime thriller about the police investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper. The full 2020 Brits Off Broadway Line Up: April 14 - May 10 WILD SWIMMING by Marek Horn, directed by Julia Head With Annabel Baldwin and Alice Lamb Produced by FullRogue Theatre Tickets: $25 ($20 for 59E59 Members) Nell and Oscar meet on a beach in Dorset. It's 1595… or maybe 1610. Oscar has been at university. Nell has been killing time. They will meet here, again and again, on this beach for the next 400 years. Stuff will change. As it does with time. They will try to keep up. Hailed by The Stage as "an anachronistic romp," Wild Swimming is the "relentlessly playful" (FringeReview) debut show for the emerging Bristol-based company, FullRogue Theatre. Their US Premiere comes on the heels of acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Bristol Old Vic. April 14 - May 3 A SUPER HAPPY STORY (ABOUT FEELING SUPER SAD) by Jon Brittain, directed by Alex Mitchell, with music from Matthew Floyd Jones With Sophie Clay, Matthew Floyd Jones, Madeleine MacMahon, and Ed Yelland Produced by Silent Uproar Productions and James Seabright Tickets: $25-$35 ($26 for 59E59 Members) A hilarious cabaret musical about depression, that explains, sings, and throws glitter about how it's OK not to be OK. This dazzling musical is a joyful, buoyant, gleeful, slightly silly, sugar-coated, unrelenting, and completely super happy show! Except for the bits about depression. Written by Olivier Award-winner Jon Brittain (The Crown on Netflix, Rotterdam at 59E59) with music by Matthew Floyd Jones (Frisky & Mannish), A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) was called "flawlessly honest, perfectly timed, intermittently heart-breaking and heart-warming show" by The Reviews Hub in its UK premiere. April 23 - May 24 THE INCIDENT ROOM by Olivia Hirst and David Byrne, directed by Beth Flintoff and David Byrne With Katy Brittain, Colin R. Campbell, Peter Clements, Ben Eagle, Natasha Magigi, Charlotte Melia, and Jamie Samuel Produced by New Diorama Theatre and Greenwich Theatre Tickets: $25-$70 ($25 - $49 for 59E59 Members) "Completely compelling to watch… intelligent, imaginative and, most of all, damn interesting." - The Stage It's 1977, and the West Yorkshire Police are working on the biggest investigation in British history. We follow Sergeant Megan Winterburn as she joins the detectives working around the clock to find the man known as the Yorkshire Ripper. With public pressure mounting, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher threatening to take over the case herself, the police resort to increasingly audacious attempts to catch the killer. Following the award-winning production of Secret Life of Humans (Brits Off Broadway, 2018), New Diorama Theatre presents a forensic examination of the real-life case that broke the British police force and sent shock waves around the world. May 6 - May 31 IT'S TRUE, IT'S TRUE, IT'S TRUE by Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens, directed by Billy Barrett. Created using a devising process with the cast and verbatim material. With Kathryn Bond, Sophie Steer, and Ellice Stevens Produced by Breach and New Diorama Theatre Tickets: $25 - $35 ($26 for 59E59 Members) It's True, It's True, It's True, winner of both a Fringe First and Total Theatre Award, restages the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, this play dramatizes the seven-month trial that gripped Renaissance Rome and asks how much has changed in the last four centuries. Blending myth, history, and contemporary commentary, this is the story of how a woman took revenge through her art to become one of the most successful painters of her generation. The Times said It's True, It's True, It's True is "staged with imaginative flair and unabashed theatricality." May 12- June 7 LADYKILLER by Madeline Gould, directed by Madelaine Moore With Hannah McClean Produced by: The Thelmas and Laura Elmes Productions Tickets: $25 ($20 for 59E59 Members) It's not what it looks like, really, it's not. It was self-defense… and anyway the woman was asking for it. A chambermaid, a hotel room, and a dead woman. The chambermaid considers herself to be a pretty normal person; she reads books. She pretended to read the party manifestos at the General Election. She's even read The Psychopath Test and she's pretty sure she's not one so… Ladykiller is a blood-soaked morality tale about victimhood, power and flipping the gender rule book on psychopathy-the (gruesome) quintessential jet-black comedy for the age of the gig economy. May 29 - June 28 THE HABIT OF ART by Alan Bennett, directed by Philip Franks Starring Matthew Kelly and David Yelland, with Veronica Roberts, Robert Mountford, John Wark, Jessica Dennis, and Benjamin Chandler Produced by Original Theatre Company and Anthology, with Peter Stickney and York Theatre Royal Tickets: $55-$70 ($49 for 59E59 Members) Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first after twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. The Habit of Art looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. Exploring friendship, rivalry, and heartache, this multi-layered masterpiece examines the joy, pain, and emotional cost of creativity. Written by one of Britain's most prolific playwrights Alan Bennett (The History Boys, The Madness of King George and Talking Heads), The Habit of Art was called "witty, moving, laugh-aloud funny, and understatedly profound" by The Guardian. June 3 - June 28 DINOMANIA devised by Kandinsky (James Yeatman, Lauren Mooney, and Al Smith), directed by James Yeatman, with music composed by Zac Gvirtzman Produced by Kandinsky and New Diorama Theatre Tickets: $25 - $35 ($26 for 59E59 Members) One hundred and sixty-five million years ago, an iguanodon is killed in the heart of a rainforest. Time passes, the rainforest becomes Southern England, and every part of the iguanodon degrades and disappears - except one tooth. One hundred and ninety-seven years ago, in safe, affluent 1820s Sussex, a country doctor finds the tooth. But where does it fit in the story of an earth created by God just 6,000 years ago? This exciting and original new show from the "wildly inventive" (Time Out) and award-winning theater-makers Kandinsky, Dinomania tells the true story of one man's battle to be heard by the scientific elite. Filled with invention and accompanied by a live piano score, this is Victorian England as you've never seen it - filled with scientific endeavor, bitter rivalry, and terrible lizards. June 8 - June 28 ORLANDO written and performed by Lucy Roslyn, directed by Josh Roche Produced by BoonDog Theatre, in association with Jessie Anand Productions Tickets: $25 ($20 for 59E59 Members) "I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." Lucy Roslyn's heartfelt piece is inspired by Virginia Woolf's fantastical, historical biography of Orlando-a novel that chronicles the misadventures of an English nobleman, constrained by neither time nor gender, across more than 300 years of history. Orlando pays homage to Woolf while deftly weaving a story for today - a person looking to escape, desperate to leave behind the identitarian bullshit of 2020. ### |
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