Well, Here's hoping I get to go see some of my Aussie Friends !
Artists Repertory Theatre Announces Co-Production with Sydney Theatre Company of Long Day’s Journey Into Night Starring William Hurt
Artists Repertory Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director Allen Nause proudly announces that the company’s 2010/11 season will open with Eugene O’Neill’s
Long Day’s Journey Into Night, a co-production with the Australia’s Sydney Theatre Company. The production will star William Hurt as the Tyrone family patriarch and legendary Australian actress Robyn Nevin as his wife. A limited run of the play will open on August 13, 2010 and will be produced in the Newmark Theatre to accommodate anticipated high demand for tickets.
The production will be directed by Andrew Upton, one of the Artistic Directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Upton leads the company alongside his wife, the well-known film actress Cate Blanchett. Widely regarded as the masterpiece work of American playwright Eugene O’Neill,
Long Day’s Journey Into Night is a largely autobiographical play about O’Neill’s family’s struggles with alcoholism and addiction. The play won him his fourth Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the most ever awarded to a single playwright.
William Hurt has appeared on stage with Artists Rep twice in the past, during the 2003/04 season in
Drawer Boy and again during the 2006/07 season in
Vanya. Though his roots are on stage, Hurt is best known for his numerous film roles. He won the Academy Award for his role in 1985’s
Kiss of the Spider Woman and was also nominated for
Children of a Lesser God, Broadcast News, and
A History of Violence. Recently he has also been featured in
Into the Wild and
Vantage Point. Hurt played the role of the Edmund, the youngest son in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 1975 production of [I]Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
Robyn Nevin is one of the most powerful and respected figures in Australian theater. She served as the Artistic Director of the Sydney Theatre Company for 8 years and was made a Member of the
Order of Australia for Services to the Performing Arts in 1981. The rest of the cast has not yet been set, but will include both Australian and American actors.
Artists Rep’s partnership with the STC is consistent with both companies’ tradition of actively fostering relationships and collaborations with international artists and companies. A 1997 tour of Pakistan included an Artists Rep production which represented the U.S. in an international play festival on human rights. In 2000, Artists Rep participated in the Vietnam America Theatre Exchange, the first ever reciprocal artistic collaboration between the United States and Vietnam that culminated in a bilingual, bicultural production of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a Vietnamese production of
A Glass Menagerie. Additionally, Producing Artistic Director Allen Nause directed
All My Sons with the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem in 2007.
Known as the premier theatre company in Australia, STC has been a major force in Australian drama since its establishment in 1978. The company presents an annual twelve-play program in three different locations including the Sydney Opera House, where is it is the resident theatre company and plays annually to audiences in excess of 300,000. In addition to bringing productions to various locations in Europe and New Zealand, Sydney Theatre Company productions have also been brought to the United States. In 2001 STC performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York with its production of
The White Devil, returned in 2006 with its production of
Hedda Gabler, and will return again in 2009 with its production of
A Streetcar Named Desire starring Cate Blanchett, which will also tour to Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center.
Founded in 1982, Artists Repertory Theatre is the oldest professional theater in Portland. Artists Rep strives to challenge artists and audiences with plays of depth and vibrancy in an intimate setting. Artists Rep explores the strengths, frailties, and diversity of the human condition primarily through regional premieres, commissioned works, and selected classics appropriate to contemporary issues.
September 30th, 2009, 04:22 PM
Press Release From A.R.T. !
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