Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere production of
Peter Parnell's play Trumpery,
directed by David Esbjornson, begins preview performances tonight, Wednesday,
November 14.
Trumpery will
officially open on Wednesday, December 5th for a limited engagement through
Sunday, December 30, 2007 Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda
Gross Theater (336 West 20th
Street).
"It is 1858. Charles Darwin (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 (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," describe press notes.
Trumpery features
Bianca Amato (The Coast of Utopia),
Michael Countryman (Night Must Fall,
Atlantic's The Bald Soprano),
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning actor, playwright and screenwriter
Michael Cristofer (The Public's Romeo and Juliet, The Shadow Box), Timothy
Deenihan (Susan & God), Tony
Award nominee Manoel Felciano (Sweeney
Todd), Neal Huff (Take Me Out,
HBO's "The Wire"), Peter Maloney (Atlantic's The Voysey Inheritance), Jack Tartaglia (The Public's A Midsummer Night's Dream), Paris Rose
Yates (The Public'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.
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 and 9th Avenues). Tickets for main stage productions are $55
and available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 (www.ticketcentral.com).
Photos: Manoel Felciano (by Ben Strothmann); Neal Huff (by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd)
