RED BULL READINGS: CENCI & MORE

RED BULL THEATER
presents
Monday October 27th 7pm
A STAGED READING OF
THE CENCI
by
Percy Bysshe Shelley
featuring
Roger Rees • Lisa Harrow
Ezra Knight • Matthew Rauch
John Douglas Thompson • Sam Tsoutsouvas
Julie Jesneck • Peter Kim • Ben Rappaport
Emma Canalese • Vayu O'Donnell

Tyranny, incest, and assassination – a 16th century tragedy comes to vivid life in the hands of one of the great Romantic poets.

Adapted and Directed by
Eleanor Holdridge

www.redbulltheater.com

212.352.3101


REVELATION READINGS
OBIE AWARD-WINNING READING SERIES CONTINUES

NOVEMBER – DECEMBER READINGS
Monday November 17, 7pm
THE MALCONTENT
by John Marston
A truculent tragicomedy, this scathing attack on government corruption is timely, terrifying, and disconcertingly amusing.
Directed by Ethan McSweeny (The Persians, 1001)
Featuring Matthew Rauch (Revenger’s Tragedy)

Monday December 8, 7pm**
**(SEE NOTE BELOW FOR THEATER LOCATION)
DOCTOR FAUSTUS
by Christopher Marlowe
Faustus sells his soul for knowledge – the classic tale, as only Marlowe could have told it!
Directed by Mark Lamos (Cymbeline)

DECEMBER 9, 2008 – JANUARY 5, 2009
A full production of
Thomas Middleton’s WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN
Directed by Jesse Berger


2009 READINGS

Monday January 12, 7pm
ELECTRICIDAD: A Chicano take on the tragedy of Electra
by Luis Alfaro
Sophocles’ great classic re-imagined, set in a contemporary Los Angeles barrio.
Directed by Lisa Peterson

Monday February 23, 7pm
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
by Peter Shaffer
A modern epic about the conquest of Peru by Spain and the destruction of the Inca Empire.
Directed by Joe Hardy

Monday March 2, 7pm
THE SIEGE OF NUMANTIA
by Miguel de Cervantes
A devastating play about honor, sacrifice, and the last days of Numantia by the creator of Don Quixote.
Directed by Moisés Kaufman

LOCATION
Theater at St. Clement’s
423 West 46th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues
Subway: A/C/E to 42nd Street, Exit on 44th Street
Parking: 415 West 45th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues
**Note: Doctor Faustus on December 8th will be held at Theatre Row, 410 W 42ndSt.

TICKETS
$25 Adults
$10 Students/Industry*
$65+ Subscription Packages Available

Purchase at www.redbulltheater.com
or call 212-352-3101, or 866-811-4111 (toll-free)

*Valid ID required.


Red Bull Theater is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit company dedicated to the presentation of vital and imaginative productions of heightened language plays and to the development of new plays written in a similar vein. With a special focus on the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Red Bull Theater aspires to challenge the intellect and engage the imagination of today’s theatergoers through language-based, company-created, resonantly provocative stagings of great classic stories.


JESSE BERGER
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

LONNIE COOPER
MANAGING DIRECTOR

RED BULL
PO BOX 250863
NEW YORK NY 10025
www.redbulltheater.com
212.414.5168