"Howard Brenton's Sore Throats is a candidate for greatness...it plunges directly into the darkest secrets men and women try to keep from themselves, let alone one another."
-Stanley Kauffmann

THE PLAY
In Sore Throats, Strindberg, suburbia, and surrealism collide in Mr. Brenton's powerful, disquieting study of what happens to Judy, a 39-year-old housewife when her marriage crashes and burns. Haunted by Jack, her alternately brutal and tender ex-husband, lured into demented modes of liberation by Sally, her new younger-generation roommate, Judy begins a riveting downward trajectory with a wholly unpredictable end. Sore Throats, premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1979.

THE ARTISTS
Howard Brenton, infamous in England for his artistically daring and politically provocative work, is considered one of Britain's leading playwrights. Though he is little known in the United States, the savagery of his world view has made him a figure of almost constant controversy in Britain. His best known plays are: Christie In Love (1969); Brassneck (with David Hare, 1973); Magnificence (1973); The Churchill Play (1974); Weapons Of Happiness (1976); Epsom Downs (1977); The Romans In Britain (1980); Bloody Poetry (1984); Pravda (with David Hare, 1985).

Evan Yionoulis has directed new plays and classics at theatres such as Lincoln Center Theater, the Mark Taper Forum, the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Actors Theatre of Louisville among others. She received an OBIE Award in 1998 for her direction of Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain at Manhattan Theatre Club, having received a Drama League Award for its premiere at South Coast Repertory. She is a resident director at Yale Repertory Theatre.

THE PRODUCTION
Yionoulis's production will be intimate and forceful bringing out tensions between domesticity and freedom, setting tenderness against brutality and stripping away artifice.

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SORE THROATS at the The Duke on 42nd Street

	MON	TUES	WED	THUR	FRI	SAT	SUN
						22 8 PM	23 7 PM
	24 DARK	25 8 PM	26 8 PM	27 8 PM	28 8 PM	29 8 PM	30 3 PM Opening Night 7 PM
	1 DARK	2 8 PM	3 8 PM	4 8 PM	5 8 PM	6 2 & 8 PM	7 3 & 7 PM
	8 DARK	9 DARK	10 8 PM	11 8 PM	12 8 PM	13 2 & 8 PM	14 3 PM
	15 DARK	16 8 PM	17 8 PM	18 8 PM	19 8 PM	20 2 & 8 PM	21 3 PM

TFANA Talks (post-performance panel, after the matinee): May 13 & 20
New Deal (pre-performance discussion at 1:30pm): May 14