Purple Repertory Theatre Company premieres absurdist Jazz Age reimagining of Adam & Eve story.
December 2 - 18 at The Monkey
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Read the New York Theatre Review interview with playwright & director HERE.
PURPLE REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY will present the World Premiere of Larry Kunofsky’s THE MYTHS WE NEED - OR - HOW TO BEGIN. This erotic, absurdist, and language-fueled pseudo-Jazz Age update on the Adam & Eve story will be directed by Jose Zayas. Performances begin December 2 with opening night slated for December at The Monkey
This here play THE MYTHS WE NEED - OR - HOW TO BEGIN is the story of The Kid, who helps run a real paradise for The Boss, an old guy who can still handle hisself. The Boss gets The Kid a girl, a real Tomater, to help him run things. As long as The Kid and The Tomater don't touch The Boss's secret stash, everything'll be Jake. But the The Old Broad shows up to tempt The Kid and The Tomater and to cause a general ruckus, and then it's Goodnight, Nurse.
THE MYTHS WE NEED - OR - HOW TO BEGIN stars Luke Forbes (The Merchant of Venice on Broadway with Al Pacino), Anna Lamadrid (Enfrascada for Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks), Annie Henk (Collaboration Town's The Play About my Dad at 59E59), and Hugh Sinclair (Thomas Bradshaw’s Southern Promises and Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist). The production features sets by Caite Hevner, costumes by Carla Bellisio, lighting by Derek Wright and sound by David Lawson
LARRY KUNOFSKY is a New York-based playwright whose work includes My Therapist, The Cat Person, “Oh, Magic Bag…”, bender/gender/straight/&neutered, Vicky Victim Social Work (a nightmare), and The Worst Person In The Whole Entire World Of All Time Ever. His play The Un-Marrying Project, about a protest movement to legalize same sex marriage, was produced by Purple Rep in New York before the laws were changed in the state. He has been a three-time winner of the John Golden Award for Drama and a resident at the Edward Albee Foundation. His work has been excerpted in the 2009 editions of The Best Men’s and Best Women’s Stage Monologues and Scenes, published by Smith & Kraus, and his full-length play What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends – an anti-social comedy, will be published by Playscripts later this year. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild and the Artistic Director of Purple Rep.
Director JOSE ZAYAS was born in Puerto Rico. He is co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Immediate Theater Company. In 2007, he was selected as one of nytheater.com’s People of the Year. He is a Drama League Fellow, an alumnus of Lincoln Center’s Director's Lab and Soho Rep Writer/Director's Lab, a participant of the 2009-2011 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors, and a liftetime member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre. His credits include: Mrs Jones and the Man From Dixieland by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik (EST), In the Time of the Butterflies (Repertorio Espanol, HOLA Award for Best Ensemble), The House of the Spirits (Denver Center, 5 Ovation Awards including Best Direction), MilkMilkLemonade (Astoria Performing Arts Center), The Man of Mode (American Repertory Theater), Southern Promises by Thomas Bradshaw (PS122), Ghost Light (59e59), Okay by Taylor Mac (EST), The Strangest (HERE) and Again and Against by Betty Shamieh (The Lark), The Past Is Not a Foreign Country... (Soho Rep), The Wasps and Tecmessa by Ken Urban (Target Margin), Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist by Thomas Bradshaw (Brick Theater, 4 New York Innovative Theater Award nominations).
PURPLE REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY is a playwright-driven collective exploring the nature of what "repertory" means. And what "purple" means, for that matter. The company is committed to plays that provoke, plays that crack you up and crack you apart so that you can put yourself together again, plays that make you see red and hear the blues...until it all mixes in your mind's eye into a purple rush. Past performances include The Un-Marrying Project, The All American Genderf*ck Cabaret and Ampersand: A Romeo & Juliet Story. For more info visit www.purplerep.com.
THE MYTHS WE NEED - OR - HOW TO BEGIN runs December 2 - 18, Thursday - Sunday at 8pm. The Monkey at 37 West 26th Street, between 5th & 6th Avenues, accessible from the F train at 23rd Sreet or the N/R at 28th Street. Tickets are $18, available at 800-838-3006 or www.BrownPaperTickets.com
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