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Orpheus Descending
Orpheus Descending
Description
Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending tells the story of the passion of two outcasts—Lady Torrance, a storekeeper’s wife and daughter of a murdered Sicilian bootlegger and Val, a wandering guitar player—and their attempt to escape from a Southern Hell.
Set in a small town dry-goods store in the Deep South, Orpheus Descending is a toxic brew of racist violence, bigotry, misogyny, sexual passion and longing for liberation.
Maggie Siff
(Billions, Mad Men and Sons of Anarchy) plays Lady Torrance and Pico Alexander (Catch 22, Simon Stephens’ Punk Rock and A.R. Gurney’s What I Did Last Summer) is Valentine Xavier.
Erica Schmidt
who adapted and directed Shakespeare’s Macbeth for seven schoolgirls entitled Mac Beth (“raucously exuberant”) and this season’s Lucy which she wrote and directed (“seamlessly layered, extraordinarily entertaining and …cleverly detailed”), stages, in her TFANA debut, this seldom-seen Williams masterpiece.
BY:
Denis Johnson
DIRECTED BY:
Arin Arbus
FEATURING:
Christian Camargo
As King Richard
Thomas Jay Ryan
As Henry Bolingbroke
SCENE DESIGN BY:
Ricardo Hernández
Costume Design by
QWEEN JEAN
Lighting Design by
SCOTT ZIELINSKI
Original Music & Sound Design by
MIKAAL SULAIMAN
Choreography by
BYRON EASLEY
Voice Director
ANDREW WADE
Dramaturgy by
JONATHAN KALB
Fight Direction by
J. DAVID BRIMMER
Artist Bios
pico alexander
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molly kate babos
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michael cullen
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matt deangelis
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gene gillette
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laura heisler
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prudence wright holmes
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brian keane
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julia mcdermott
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ana reeder
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maggie siff
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kate skinner
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fiana toibin
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james waterston
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dathan b williams
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Gallery
Running Time: 1 Hour and 40 Minutes, No Intermission
Season Sponsors
Deloitte and Bloomberg Philanthropies are the 2022-2023 Season Sponsors.
Principal support for Theatre for a New Audience’s season and programs is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Fund in the New York Community Trust, The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and The Thompson Family Foundation.
Theatre for a New Audience’s season and programs are also made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, Shakespeare in American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.