Chester Theatre Company Season Page to stage Playwrights reimagine literary classics - Berkshire Eagle |
| Posted: Saturday February 5, 2011 CHESTER -- Five classical works of literature -- from Jane Austen and William Shakespeare to Christopher Marlowe, Henry James and Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- get a contemporary makeover on stage this summer in Chester Theatre Company's 22nd season. The season -- July 6 through Aug. 28 in the Chester Town Hall -- dubbed "Classic Stories/Contemporary Voices," features contemporary American plays adapted from or inspired by classic works of world literature. "I'm really excited about the concept behind this year's slate of plays," CTC artistic director Byam Stevens said in a news release. "The classics continue to inspire the writers of today, so we're presenting a season of classic works re-imagined by contemporary American playwrights." The season opens July 6 with the East Coast premiere of "pride@prejudice," Jane Austen's novel with added material adapted, edited and compiled by Daniel Elihu Kramer. Five actors play over 30 roles in this new version. The production, to be directed by CTC newcomer Ron Bashford, will run through July 17. CTC veteran Sheila Siragusa will direct the New England premiere of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" (July 20-31) in a new 90-minute adaptation by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus. In this new version of one of the most famous murder mysteries ever written, Raskolnikov re-enacts the events that drove him first to a horrible crime and then to a search for redemption."Crime and Punishment" will be followed Aug. 3-14 by Jeffrey Hatcher's stage adaptation of Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw." Daniel Elihu Kramer will direct this two-actor adaptation of James' psychological thriller about a young governess who is dispatched to a remote house in the country that is haunted by the ghost of her predecessor, Miss Jessel. The season comes to a close Aug. 17-28 with "Wittenberg (A Tragical-Comical-Historical in Two Acts)" by David Davalos. Set in 1517 at the University of Wittenberg, Davalos' ambitious comedy provides the back-story to Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and even the Protestant Reformation. Stevens will direct. Single tickets and season subscriptions are available online at www.Chester Theatre.org. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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