Rising Phoenix Repertory presents the world premiere of CEREMONY: A new play by Mark Schultz. Part of an ongoing acclaimed series of site-specific early evening pub theatre in the East Village SEPTEMBER 16th - 29th
Seventh Street Small Stage, 43 East Seventh Street
(6 to Astor Place, R/W to 8th Street, F train to 2nd Ave)
Strictly limited engagement! ELEVEN PERFORMANCES ONlY.
Performances Sundays - Fridays at 6PM there will be NO PERFORMANCE ON MONDAY, SEptember 20th
Tickets $10; for information and reservations call 212-946-5198.
Seating extremely limited.
After the critical success and sold out runs of its first two Off-Broadway productions, with Piece by Piece Productions-of Slipping at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Too Much Memory at the New York Theatre Workshop's Fourth Street Theatre-Caffe Cino Fellowship winning company Rising Phoenix Rep returns to the backroom pub space at the Seventh Street Small Stage to present the world premiere of Ceremony, award-winning playwright Mark Schultz's new site-specific play. Directed by RPR Artistic Associate Brian Roff, the production will feature Evan Crommett, Alex Flores, and Meg Gibson.
Commissioned and written specifically for the moody and extremely intimate close quarters in the basement space of downtown restaurant Jimmy's No. 43, in Schultz's play two boys from different families meet on the eve of the wedding that will make them brothers. As they test the boundaries of acceptance and innocence, life after the ceremony hangs in the balance.
Ceremony runs for eleven performances only, from September 16th - 29th at the Seventh Street Small Stage, 43 East Seventh Street (6 to Astor Place, R/W to 8th Street, F train to 2nd Ave). Performances at 6PM Sundays through Fridays with no shows on Saturdays, and additionally there will be no performance on Monday, September 20th. Running time approximately 60 minutes. Tickets: $10, cash only at the door. For reservations please call 212.946.5198; for more information please visit www.risingphoenixrep.org.
Mark Schultz (Playwright) Plays include: The Gingerbread House (the stageFARM); Deathbed (Apparition Productions); Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy (Soho Rep/True Love Productions) for which he won the 2005 Oppenheimer Award and the 2006 Kesselring Prize; Polar Bear (commissioned and produced by Birmingham Rep, UK); Gift (Rising Phoenix Rep / NY Fringe Festival); and various one-acts including Fun (commissioned and produced by the StageFARM). Everything Will Be Different was produced by the Actors Touring Company with Theatre Royal Plymouth under the title A Brief History of Helen of Troy at the Soho Theatre in London after a UK tour. Other plays include Magic Kingdom; Brightness. He has received a Sloan Commission from MTC, as well as commissions from Playwrights Horizons and The Exchange. Readings and workshops: MCC Theater; The Vineyard; Rattlestick; MTC; New York Theater Workshop; The Public; Studio Dante; Woolly Mammoth. He was selected for a 2006 Royal Court Residency. He is a member of Rising Phoenix Rep, and is coordinator of MCC Theater's Playwrights' Coalition. He holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.
Brian Roff (Director) Recent directing credits include Dutch Masters by Greg Keller (LAByrinth) What Happened When by Daniel Talbott (HERE), Crazy Little Thing by Melissa Ross (Center Stage), The Claiming Race by Robert Glaudini (Theater for a New City), Amazing by Brooke Berman (Contemporary American Theater Festival), Water Born by Edith Freni (EST), The Sibling Plays by Daniel Talbott (Rising Phoenix Rep), Ponies by Mike Batistick (FringeNYC) and seven LAByrinth Celebrity Charades benefits. He was assistant director to Philip Seymour Hoffman on The Little Flower of East Orange, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Our Lady of 121st Street, all by Stephen Adly Guirgis. He is an artistic associate of Rising Phoenix Rep and a member of LAByrinth Theater Company.
