Past Shows
WAR
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Rag and Bone Written by Lars Norén Directed by Anders Cato (Craig Lucas’s Miss Julie) Translation by Marita Lindholm Gochman January 31 – March 2, 2008 Wed – Sat at 8pm, Sun at 5pm with Ngozi Anyanwu (Ghosts) Rosalyn Coleman (Radio Golf, The Piano Lesson) Flora Diaz (Tooth and Claw, The Disappeared) Laith Nakli (films: “Slippery Slope” and “Sadiq”) Alok Tewari (Betrothed, The Servant of Two Masters) DRAMATURGE: Ulrika Josephsson ASST. DIRECTOR: Zoe Moore SETS: Van Santvoord COSTUMES: Meghan Healey LIGHTS: Ed McCarthy SOUND: Eric Shim PSM: Kyle Gates ASM: Molly Eustis |
It is a year of ethnic cleansing. A mother and her two daughters, their father missing and presumed dead, think only of survival. When the father returns unexpectedly, they must confront a world gone completely wrong. Through this simple family tale, Norén creates a powerful human statement that becomes, through the use of multi-ethnic casts, a history of genocide in our century.
SELECTED PRESS:
“raw, brave, and engrossing” – nytheatre.com
“War” has undeniable resonance – The New York Times
“Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s powerful American premiere production, sensitively directed by the capable Anders Cato, explores the impact of ethnic cleansing on an individual family in an unnamed conflict. Nontraditional casting of a multiethnic company increases the resonance of the portrait as a global parable of destruction…. Nakli gives a devastating performance as a haunted yet still furiously hopeful man who doesn’t realize that his family has already been destroyed. The other four actors are equally excellent in this intermissionless 90-minute play that can seem relentless in its depiction of the collision between the quotidian poetry of family life and the horrors of war.” – Backstage
Now playing: a “gripping drama” by Stephen Belber:
Geometry of Fire.
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