Following its triumph last year with Adrienne Kennedy's
Ohio State Murders, which made
The New York Times critic's 10 Best List, was recognized by the Lortels and won Obie Awards for its author and lead actress, Theatre for a New Audience will continue its tradition of producing the best contemporary drama with
Chair, a riveting play by one of England's leading playwrights, Edward Bond.
Several years ago, Theatre for a New Audience produced the acclaimed production of Edward Bond's masterpiece
Saved directed by Robert Woodruff, former Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), whose productions have played internationally and in New York at BAM, Lincoln Center and the Public Theater.
Chair reunites Bond and Woodruff.
In
Chair, Bond explores theatricality in an austere and concentrated way without embellishment or decoration. Bond envisions a haunting Orwellian world in which audiences will discover a possible future. Stephanie Roth Haberle plays Alice whose single kindly gesture of bringing a chair to a soldier waiting for a bus leads to the unimaginable.
Stephanie Roth Haberle, who has often collaborated with Robert Woodruff at the A.R.T., has also appeared on Broadway, at BAM, the Delacorte and Theatre for a New Audience where she played opposite Mark Rylance in
The Two Gentleman of Verona. Some of her other memorable New York appearances include Imogen in Shakespeare's
Cymbeline directed by Andre Serban and Varya in Chekhov's
The Cherry Orchard directed by Peter Brook.
Chair has played at the famed Avignon Festival, in Paris and toured widely. This will be its New York premiere.
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