Family Tensions Become Family Trauma in
HARD RIGHT
March 1 - 25 at The Players Theatre
For Immediate Release
Contact: Ron Lasko @ 212-505-1700 x. 11 / spin160@aol.com
Family Tensions Become Family Trauma in
HARD RIGHT
Limited Off-Broadway Engagement!
March 7 - April 1 at The Players Theatre
"San Francisco’s most promising young playwright... his voice has its own distinctive power... riveting stuff" - Variety
"no single writer captures the agitated, uncertain spirit of the times more completely" -- San Francisco Chronicle
The Players Theater has moved the New York Premiere production of David Barth’s HARD RIGHT to an Off-Broadway contract at the 199 seat theater. Written and directed by David Barth, a San Francisco native and an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, a new playing schedule puts previews of this darkly comic parable beginning March 7th with opening night on Sunday, March12th. This Off-Broadway limted engagement will run through April 1st.
In HARD RIGHT, a slacker college student brings his girlfriend home for a visit with the folks. Family tensions turn into family trauma when a counselor conducting a dubious field study also pays the family a visit. The timeless conflict between liberty and absolute power is reexamined in this darkly comic parable set on the eve of the age of terror.
The ensemble cast includes Susan Engbrecht (Actor’s Gang), Dylan Price (Second Stage), Stacy Shane (Barrow Group), Jeremy Beck and Shayne Dukevitch.
David Barth has ten produced original plays to his credit including A Dance Along the Precipice, The Last Frontier, Unt Gretel, Spook’s Lament and The Heel. Some of his awards include a Bernie Award from The San Francisco Chronicle, a Goldie Award from the San Francisco Bay Guardian and a Gerbode Foundation Grant. His play The Heel was developed into a screenplay for Jerry Garcia. In 2005, he was selected as an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow.
HARD RIGHT runs March 7 - April 1, Tuesday - Saturday at 8pm with an opening night performance on Sunday, March 12 at 8pm. Players Theatre is located at 115 MacDougal Street (between Bleecker & West 3rd St. -- accessible from the A,B,C,D,E,F&V trains at West 4th Street.) Tickets are $25 / $15 for students and seniors, available at 212-352-3101 or TheaterMania.com.