Late:
A Cowboy Song
(Chicago Premiere)
by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Jessica Thebus
July 26- August 29, 2010 |
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"Late:
A Cowboy Song” might well be the best show I've ever seen
at Piven.
- Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune (click here for full review)
Late:
A Cowboy Story reunites the remarkable team of director Jessica
Thebus, actor Polly Noonan, and Piven Theatre alumna, two-time
Pulitzer Prize finalist and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Sarah
Ruhl. Late: A Cowboy Story is the story of one woman's
education and her search to find true love after she meets a female
cowboy just outside of Pittsburgh.
Jessica
Thebus, Sarah Ruhl and Polly Noonan most recently collaborated
at Piven Theatre in 2002 with the Chicago premiere of Ruhl’s
Melancholy Play. In 2003 Piven Theatre commissioned and
produced Ruhl's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando,
in which Noonan played Queen Elizabeth. In 2004 Artistic Director
Emeritus Joyce Piven directed the Chicago premiere of Sarah's
Ruhl’s Eurydice, with Noonan in the title role.
The relationship between Piven, Thebus, Ruhl and Noonan began
when all three women were part of Piven’s Young People’s
Company.
“The
opportunity to do this play at the Workshop with this group of
artists is extremely special,” says Director Jessica Thebus.
“So rarely do we get the chance to reunite with our favorite
collaborators to share a language we all know in the very rooms
in which we learned to speak. All that, and the opportunity to
work on something NEW as well! This play is important, unusual
and exciting, and the team we have put together makes it one of
the very rare experiences that we all wait for.”
Late:
A Cowboy Song features Polly Noonan* (Mary), Kelli Simpkins*
(Red) and Larry Grimm* (Crick). The creative team includes John
Kearns* (production stage manager), John Dalton (scenic design),
JR Lederle (lighting design), Andre Pluess (sound design) Stephen
Mazurek (projections) and Janice Pytel (costume design). Jodi
Gottberg is the production manager.
*
Denotes a member of the Actors’ Equity Association
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