BROOKLYN BOY - ENSEMBLE THEATRE - Play One - 2010

Australian Premiere BROOKLYN BOY by Donald Margulies Director: Anna Crawford Designer: Graham Maclean Lighting Designer: Bernie Tan


Cast: Brandon Burke, Daniel Mitchell, Michael Ross, Matilda Ridgway, Leigh Scully & Lenore Smith


A funny, touching and heartfelt examination of family, friends and the effects of fame by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies.


Eric Weiss (Brandon Burke) has been trying to leave behind his Jewish background for most of his life. Moving from his home borough of Brooklyn to attend an Ivy League College he has never looked back. A critically acclaimed, but financially unsuccessful author, his semi-autobiographical novel, Brooklyn Boy, has finally propelled him on to the New York Times bestseller list and into literary stardom. Now hes dealing with book signings, a movie producer who wants him to downplay the Jewish content of his screenplay, a young fan in his hotel room who thinks that fiction is like so over, an estranged-wife who isnt interested in reconciliation, an old friend who wants to help him reconnect with his past and a father who cant quite acknowledge his sons success. Eric finally realises he must find a way to reconcile where he has come from with the person he has become.




Anna Crawford directed and musical directed the charming school holiday family production A Year With Frog and Toad at Ensemble Theatre in January 2008. Anna has had a long association with the theatre. She graduated from Ensemble Acting Studios and has appeared in Harp On The Willow, Charitable Intent and Derrida in Love. Anna was awarded a directors fellowship with the theatre in 2008. Brooklyn Boy is her debut mainstage production and she has brought together an experienced cast, all who have worked previously at Ensemble Theatre. quietly comic and insightful winningly celebrates home in all its affectionate and frustrating glory. Talkin Broadway fresh and pleasurable exquisitely authentic and entertaining acerbically funny Curtain Up this comic drama is steeped in an admirably humble and often touching spirit of acceptance The New York Times


SEASON DETAILS:

VENUE: Ensemble Theatre, 78 McDougall Street, Kirribilli, NSW, 2061

DATES: Previews from 21 January, opens 29 January, plays to March 6, 2010 (with possible extension)




PERFORMANCES: check website for performance times www.ensemble.com.au

PRICES: $39 - $63 (booking charges may apply)




BOOKINGS: 02 9929 0644 or www.ensemble.com.au

FURTHER INFORMATION / INTERVIEWS / IMAGES please contact: Merran Doyle at Merran Doyle Publicity (02) 9905 4644,

mobile: 0419 999 607 or email: merran@merrandoyle.com.au




NB: PRODUCTION PHOTOS DOWNLOADABLE from Ensemble Theatre website from Jan 23: www.ensemble.com.au - media password to download images: Emedia

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