Playwrights Horizons Adds Four Shows to 2010-2011 Roster

Plays by Amy Herzog, Adam Bock, Bathsheba Doran and David Greenspan have been added to Playwrights Horizons’ 2010-2011 40th anniversary season. The four productions will join the previously announced season opener (in August 2010), the New York premiere of Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I starring Elizabeth Ashley and Brian Murray. A sixth and final production, plus casting and dates for the entire season, will be announced later. The newly announced productions are as follows:

After the Revolution by Amy Herzog, directed by Carolyn Cantor
This New York premiere will be presented at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre. The brilliant, promising Emma Joseph proudly carries the torch of her family’s Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her blacklisted grandfather. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved.

A Small Fire by Adam Bock, directed by Trip Cullman
The second mainstage production of the season will be the world premiere of a new play by the author of The Receptionist, The Drunken City and other dark comedies. When a tough-as-nails contractor finds her senses disappearing one at a time, the impact on the lives around her is nothing less than seismic. In this human parable, a seemingly catastrophic loss leads to unlikely self-discoveries of the “small fires” within.

Kin by Bathsheba Doran, directed by Sam Gold
The third mainstage production will be a world premiere that sheds a sharp light on the changing face of kinship in the modern world. Anna, a Texan Ivy League poetry scholar, and Sean, an Irish personal trainer, hardly seem destined for one another. But as their web of disparate family and friends crosses great distances— both psychologically and geographically—an unlikely new family is forged.

Go Back to Where You Are, written and performed by David Greenspan, directed by Leigh Silverman
This world premiere, to be produced at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, centers on a forgotten chorus boy (Obie winning actor/director Greenspan) from the theater of Ancient Greece, stuck in a lonely purgatory these past 2000 years until being sent back to earth on a mission from God. He now finds himself among a vacationing family in the Hamptons, caught off-guard by his re-discovered ability to feel love.