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The Father

First Preview: Apr 30, 2016

Opening Date: Apr 30, 2016

Closing Date: Jun 12, 2016

Running Time: 01:45

The Father
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Playing @

Polonsky Shakespeare Center

262 Ashland Place Brooklyn, NY 11217

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Arin Arbus, TFANA Associate Artistic Director, has directed six productions of Shakespeare for the company, including acclaimed stagings of Othello and Macbeth.

For the first time for TFANA, she will direct two provocative contemporary classics about marriage in rotating repertory – Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, in an adaptation by Thornton Wilder not seen in New York since its Broadway premiere in 1937, and August Strindberg’s The Father in a new version in English by David Greig (Strindberg’s Creditors at BAM), commissioned by TFANA.

Strindberg wrote The Father as a direct rebuttal to Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, fulminating against Ibsen’s tale of a woman bravely escaping a stifling bourgeois marriage. Lean and fresh translations will support this sense of enduring contemporaneity. This is the first time the two plays will be performed in repertory in the English-speaking theatre. 

John Douglas Thompson returns to TFANA, following his award-winning performance in Tamburlaine the Great, to play Torvald in A Doll’s House and the Captain in The Father. Drama Desk Award winner Maggie Lacey (Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle at Signature Theatre) plays Nora in A Doll’s House and Laura in The Father

REPERTORY PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
VISIT: http://www.tfana.org/season-2016/dolls-house-father/calendar-2
Age Guidance

Age Guidance: 16

Show Notes

Show Notes: No Intermission

Audience Advisory:

The Father contains haze and the use of strobe lights.

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$75 - $85

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$20 -  New Deal tickets are available for all performances for ages 30 and under or full-time students of any age. (see web site)

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Directions Subway

Atlantic Av Station [2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q]; Lafayette Av [C]; Fulton St [G].

Assisted Listening System

Assistive Listening Devices that transmit sound via headsets are available for all performances. For an Assistive Listening Device, please visit the box office before entering the mainstage theatre.

Restroom

Gender diversity is welcome at Theatre for a New Audience. All are welcome to use the restroom that best fits their identity. In addition to men’s and women’s restrooms on the first floor, there is a gender neutral single-stall private restroom on the mezzanine level (third floor).

Wheelchair Info

Access for wheelchair users and individuals with limited mobility is available on all floors of Polonsky Shakespeare Center. For questions about accessible seating, please email tickets@tfana.org or call 212-229-2819 x10

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