Atlantic Theater
Company is proud to announce the second production of its 2007-2008
season, the world premiere production of Peter Parnell's play Trumpery, directed by David Esbjornson.
Trumpery will begin previews Wednesday, November 14 for
an official opening on Wednesday, December 5 and a
limited engagement through Sunday, December 30, 2007 Off-Broadway at Atlantic
Theater Company at the Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20th Street). 
Trumpery will feature Bianca Amato (Broadway's The Coast
of Utopia), Michael Countryman
(Broadway's Night Must Fall, Atlantic's The Bald Soprano),
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning actor, playwright and screenwriter Michael Cristofer (The Public
Theater's Romeo and Juliet, The Shadow Box , The Witches of
Eastwick ), Tony Award nominee Manoel Felciano (Broadway's Sweeney Todd ), Neal Huff (Broadway's Take Me Out,
HBO's "The Wire"), Peter Maloney (Atlantic's
The Voysey Inheritance, The Room) and Paris Rose Yates (The Public Theater's King Lear).
Playwright Peter
Parnell returns to Atlantic
Theater Company, which produced the New
York debut production of his acclaimed stage
adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, winner of the
American Theatre Critics Association Award. His plays include Sorrows of
Stephen, The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, Romance Language,
Hyde in Hollywood, Flaubert's Latest, An Imaginary Life
and QED. David Esbjornson
directed the Tony Awardwinning production of Edward Albee's The
Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
on Broadway. He is the Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre and
served as the Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company from 1992-98, for which
he received a special Lortel Award in honor of his body of work. His staging of
the world premiere of The Great Gatsby, adapted by Simon Levy, inaugurated the new home of the famed
Guthrie Theater last year.
"It is 1858. Charles Darwin (Michael Cristofer) struggles to
finish The Origin of Species, and give the world his theory of natural
selection, while coping with family illness and his own loss of faith.
Meanwhile, halfway around the world, an unknown explorer named Wallace (Manoel
Felciano) is about to come up with the exact same theory. Both vibrantly comic
and deeply moving, Trumpery examines what it means to live in a Darwinian universe from the
point of view of the man who discovered the idea," explain press notes.
The design team for
Trumpery features scenic design by Tony Award winner Santo
Loquasto, costume design by fifteen-time Tony Award nominee Jane Greenwood, lighting design by James Ingalls and sound design by
Obadiah Eaves.
Trumpery
will play Tuesday through Friday at 8PM, Saturday at 2PM & 8PM and
Sundays at 3PM.
Atlantic Theater Company Main Stage at the Linda Gross
Theater is located at 336 West 20th
Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues).
Tickets for main stage productions are $55 and available by calling Ticket
Central at 212-279-4200 (ticketcentral.com).
Photo: Manoel Felciano
