SOLOCAT Productions presents
THE BLUE ROOM by David Hare
OPENING Thursday, March 25, 2010 with reception to follow
Running Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm
As sexual encounters and expectations of love fill the senses with hope of fulfillment, the next episode emerges. David Hare’s adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s once banned Reigen transfers the action from Vienna circa 1900 to present day. The audience voyeuristically experiences a provocative daisy chain of relationships. The episodes, teasing to satisfy, scrutinize sexual morals and class ideology of human mating rituals. These rituals resonate…as clearly today as they did a century ago.
DAVID HARE (Playwright) is considered to be one of the world’s most important playwrights of the late 20th century. He was Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre, the Nottingham Playhouse, and has been Associate Director of the National Theatre since 1984. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. David’s most celebrated works (among nearly 100) include the plays Plenty, Skylight, Knuckle (winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), A Map Of The World, Stuff Happens, and The Vertical Hour as well as several films such as The Hours, The Reader (with Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet) and most recently the screenplay for the The Corrections (based on the novel by Jonathan Franzen). His work as a writer and director has garnered multiple awards including the Tony Award, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival), Olivier Award, and Golden Globe and Satellite Award nominations.
ARTHUR SCHNITZLER (author of REIGEN) was born in Vienna in 1862 and was a celebrated Austrian doctor, playwright, novelist, and critic who dealt with the theme of illusion and reality in many variations. His works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality as well as their strong stand against anti-Semitism. Schnitzler’s response to critics who claimed his works all seemed to repeat the same subjects was, “I write of love and death, what other subjects are there?â€
