Brett Singer & Associates, LLC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
The
7th Sign To Present
October 11, 2004
The 7th Sign, the company that presented
Kurt Vonnegut’s Happy Birthday Wanda June last season, will present
Albert Camus’ play THE JUST ASSASSINS.
Allegra Libonati will direct a cast of five. Performances will be at the UNDER St. Marks Theater,
located at 94 St. Marks Place, and will begin on Wednesday, November 3rd.
THE JUST ASSASSINS is a dramatization of the 1905 assassination of
Grand Duke Sergei in Moscow, one of the events that precipitated WWI. The play is enacted from the point of view of
the revolutionaries, as they each struggle to rationalize and cope with the
idea that perhaps murder is necessary to achieve a more liberated Russia. But is that murder justified, or will it
merely replace one type of violence with another? The play was written in 1949, and translated from the French.
Duke Sergei was the uncle of Tsar Nicholas II, and his assassination is
considered the first act of retaliation that spawned the 1905 Russian
Revolution (which eventually failed).
Sergei was murdered by 23-year old Ivan Kaliayev, the protagonist of the
play. Most scholars believe that all of
the characters in the play are based on real people and true events. Most notable is the visit Sergei’s widow
made to Kaliayev following her husband’s death, in which she forgives the
assassin and offers him a pardon, which he refuses.
The cast for THE JUST ASSASSINS will include
Elliotte Crowell (Williamstown Theater Festival, Associate Artist with Eric
Bogosian), Daniel Deferrari (Williamstown Theater Festival, 7th
Sign’s Happy Birthday Wanda June), Mick Lauer (The Times Square Revue),
Jake Thomas (Happy Birthday Wanda June), Charlie Wilson (Happy
Birthday Wanda June). The actors
trained at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School, NYU’s Tisch School of
the Arts, and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
The schedule will be as follows:
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3 8pm |
4 10:30pm |
5 10:30pm |
6 10:30pm |
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7 2pm |
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10 8pm |
11 10:30pm |
12 10:30pm |
13 10:30pm |
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14 2pm |
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17 10:30pm |
18 10:30pm |
19 10:30pm |
20 10:30pm |
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21 8pm |
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Tickets will be $15.00 and
may be purchased by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444, or online at
www.7thsign.info. Photos will be
available for download at www.brettsinger.com/clients/thejustassassins.html.
THE Just Assassins
A Play by Albert Camus
At the UNDER St. Marks Theater, 94 St. Marks Place, between 1st
Avenue and Avenue A
November 3rd through November 21st
* * Critics are invited anytime from November 4th on
TICKETS: $15; call Smarttix at 212-868-4444, or visit www.7thsign.info
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