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For Immediate
Release
Now Extended For
Three More Weeks!
Rosalind
Productions & The Platform Group’s sold-out
Savage in Limbo
by John Patrick
Shanley
A Drunk, A Virgin
and a Ho Facing Life Stuck in the Slow Lane
Through March 27th
at The Drilling Company Theatre
Following its initial sold-out run
of John Patrick Shanley's Savage in Limbo at the Drilling
Company Theatre, at 236 West 78th
Street, Rosalind Productions, Inc. &
The Platform Group are proud to announce a three-week extension of this
edgy comedy about three Bronx women desperately trying to escape
from their dead-end lives. Directed by Brian Tom O'Connor and produced in
associated with the Drilling Company, this passionate and touching tale will now
run through March 27th.
Please note: the show
is not open for review, but press coverage and listings are welcome. The
cast and the companies are available for interviews at your
request.
One quiet Monday night,
three neighborhood friends, and former grade school classmates, find themselves
in a local drinking establishment. There's Denise, a frustrated, 32-year-old
virgin who's temporarily fled the home where she lives with her mother; April,
an emotionally burned-out soul who drinks because she has nothing else; and
Linda, a foxy lady with an easy reputation who has just been dumped by her
boyfriend, Tony, a typical Italian stud, who now wants to date someone uglier
because he thinks it will help him break out of his routine. As the women
complain about their situations, under the watchful eye of bartender Murk--a
fervent believer of all things status quo--they begin to hatch a plan whereby
they can finally begin living their lives, instead of just existing in them. But
it’s not long before the women's deeper needs for love and security begin to
emerge, threatening to alter forever the life changes they are all desperately
trying to achieve.
Now
running through March 27th, Savage in Limbo will be performed at
The Drilling Company Theatre, located at 236
West 78th Street
(between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues) on the third floor. (The theatre is not
handicap accessible.) Show times are Wednesday-Saturday at 8pm and
Sunday at 3pm. There
is no Sunday show on March 6th. Running time is 75 minutes (no intermission).
Tickets: $18.00, $30.00 as of March 9th. Reservations: 212-868-4444 or
www.rosalindproductions.com
The cast of Savage in Limbo features Brian
Patrick Murphy, Kendall Rileigh*, Abigail Rose Solomon*, Shara Ashley Zeiger and
Maxwell Zener*. The production team includes Andrew Lu (set designer), Isabella
F. Byrd (lighting designer) and
Anthony
Trentinella (sound designer).
Among John Patrick Shanley's plays are Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Italian
American Reconciliation, The Dreamer Examines his Pillow, Sailor's Song
(Drama Desk Nomination) Savage in Limbo,
Four Dogs and a Bone, Beggars in the House of Plenty, Psychopathia Sexualis,
Cellini, Where's My Money?, Dirty Story, Doubt (Tony and Drama Desk Award
for Best Play, Pulitzer Prize for Drama), and Defiance. As a screenwriter, he received
an Academy Award for Moonstruck and
an Emmy nomination for the HBO film Live
from Baghdad. He was born in the Bronx.
Brian Tom O’Connor recently directed the
New
York premiere of Reggie Cheong-Leen's The Nanjing Race (Abingdon Theatre
Company), and the world premieres of Skeleton at the Feast by Jim Beggarly
(One Dream Theatre), Robert Cessna's David and Arthur, Arthur and David at
42nd
Street Workshop and Demolition by Ben Sahl (Columbia
Dramatists). Other New
York productions include Trios and Final Vows by Robert Cessna,
Taking Liberties by Dave Carley, Women of Manhattan and Welcome to the Moon by John Patrick
Shanley, and Sari Body's Hide the
Bride. He also directed the first staged reading of Samuel Beckett’s Eleutheria at the National Arts Club.
Opera
credits include The Magic Flute, The Impresario, and La Serva Padrona
for the Bronx Opera Company.
Founded
in 2005, Rosalind Productions Inc.
explores stories in which the female characters are as vital, complex and
influential as the male characters. Rosalind was an associate producer of The Miracle Worker on Broadway. In
Los
Angeles, Rosalind produced Misalliance, Proof, As You Like It, and
the new play, Stages, which garnered
a NAACP Theatre Award nomination. For more info go to www.RosalindProductions.com.
The
Platform Group is a
New York
City
production company formed in early 2010. Platform’s mission is to create work that challenges, inspires and provides a
place to stand on. The
Platform Group on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ThePlatformGroup
The Platform Group on Twitter: www.twitter.com/platformgroup
.
Information for Listing Editors
WHAT:
Savage in Limbo
By John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Brian Tom O'Connor
Set Designer: Andrew
Lu
Lighting Designer:
Isabella F. Byrd
Sound Designer: Anthony
Trentinella
Featuring: Brian
Patrick Murphy, Kendall Rileigh*, Abigail Rose Solomon*, Shara Ashley Zeiger and
Maxwell Zener*. (* - member of Actors' Equity)
Synopsis:
In John Patrick Shanley’s touching
and edgy comedy, three former grade school classmates find themselves at a
run-down Bronx bar presided over by a bartender
who habitually waters his dead plants. As they try to figure out how to change
their mostly empty lives, circumstances (and each other) conspire to keep them
exactly where they are. A funny and penetrating story where everything and
nothing happens, where "alone" can be the cruelest or most freeing word of all.
WHERE:
The Drilling Company
Theatre
236
West 78th Street
(between Broadway and Amsterdam
Avenues)
Third floor (Please note: the theatre is not handicapped
accessible)
WHEN:
February 11th - March 27th
Wednesday-Saturday
at 8pm
Sunday
at 3pm
*No Sunday show on March 6th
RUNNING TIME:
75 Minutes (no
intermission)
TICKETS: $18.00, $30.00 as of March 9th
RESERVATIONS: 212-868-4444 or
www.rosalindproductions.com
SUBWAY INFO:
Take 1 train to
79th
Street or the C or B train to
81st
Street
The production is not
open for review, but press coverage and listings are
welcome.
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