The Unseen is notable writer of stage and television Craig Wright's (TV's "Lost", "Dirty, Sexy Money", and the theatre's Recent Tragic Events and The Pavilion, et al) psychological potboiler about two prisoners trying to crack the code of their cryptic imprisonment by a brutal, totalitarian regime. Only familiar to each other by their voices, the two men keep each other mentally and emotionally going through the cell walls as they share stories of their interrogations and torture, putting the pieces together about who their captors are and what it would take to get out. The puzzle is further complicated with the introduction of a new prisoner placed near them who only poses more questions than answers.
The production is being directed by Lisa Denman. The cast includes Thomas Ward (Hamlet, King John, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Guys and Dolls, Disguises, Relative Values, Arms and the Man, Julius Caesar, and The Merry Wives of Windsor all with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.), Steven Pounders (Off-Broadway's The Coffee Trees), and
STAN DENMAN (Off-Broadway's The Traveling Lady).
With Horton Foote's blessing, the Baylor Department of Theatre Arts recently formed a new American Actors Company to continue the mission of the original. The new company produced the first professional production of the Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival, The Traveling Lady, leading to a complete restaging in New York, co-produced by the Ensemble Studio Theatre in the spring of 2006. The play received a Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival of a play. In the interim, the American Actors Company produced two more works in Texas. Romulus Linney's Heathen Valley and God and Mammon, an original play by Dr. DeAnna Toten Beard.
The American Actor's Company (The Traveling Lady) is proud to present the Off-Broadway premiere of The Unseen by Craig Wright. Performances of this limited Off-Broadway engagement will be at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce St) beginning previews March 5th, Opening March 8th and closing March 28th. Performances run Tuesdays - Sundays at 8 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM, Sundays at 3 PM. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased by calling Telecharge at 212-239-6200 or by going to www.telecharge.com. For more information please visit www.unseentheplay.com.
