Click here to listen to a selection from the play and hear an interview with actors Preston Maybank, Mark Christine and director, David Ledingham
Click here to read an interview on by Michael Schoepe http://www.theatrehotspot.com/preston_and_mark/with actors Preston Maybank and Mark Christine about the play RED, their working relationship and approach to the characters they portray.
June 22, 23 7:30pm @ THE DISTRICT THEATRE
Directed by: David Ledingham
2010 Drama Desk Winner for Best Play; Winner of 6 Tony Awards including: Best Play, Best Featured Actor in a Play (Eddie Redmayne) and Best Direction of a Play, Alfred Molina starred as Mark Rothko, the pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, on Broadway and in London.
At the height of his career Mark Rothko struggles with a series of grand-scale paintings known as the "Seagram murals" for New York's elite Four Seasons restaurant. When his new assistant challenges his artistic integrity, Rothko must confront his own demons or be crushed by the ever-changing art world he helped create.
"There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend . . . One day the black will swallow the red." - Mark Rothko
2010 Drama Desk Winner for Best Play; Winner of 6 Tony Awards including: Best Play, Best Featured Actor in a Play (Eddie Redmayne) and Best Direction of a Play, Alfred Molina starred as Mark Rothko, the pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, on Broadway and in London.
At the height of his career Mark Rothko struggles with a series of grand-scale paintings known as the "Seagram murals" for New York's elite Four Seasons restaurant. When his new assistant challenges his artistic integrity, Rothko must confront his own demons or be crushed by the ever-changing art world he helped create.
"There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend . . . One day the black will swallow the red." - Mark Rothko
The Buzz about RED:
“A master class of questions and answers…What we see, above all, is an artist seeing, and it’s impossible not to feel thrilled by the privilege.” --New York Times
“John Logan sends American abstract impressionist painter Mark Rothko into battle with his demons in this electrifying play of ideas, and the artist’s howls are pure music…So intense that anyone who leaves the theater should be shot.”—Variety
“Fascinating…The most compelling drama I’ve seen all year…a sizzling, intellectually thrilling two-character drama.”—Chicago Tribune
“A master class of questions and answers…What we see, above all, is an artist seeing, and it’s impossible not to feel thrilled by the privilege.” --New York Times
“John Logan sends American abstract impressionist painter Mark Rothko into battle with his demons in this electrifying play of ideas, and the artist’s howls are pure music…So intense that anyone who leaves the theater should be shot.”—Variety
“Fascinating…The most compelling drama I’ve seen all year…a sizzling, intellectually thrilling two-character drama.”—Chicago Tribune
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Highlights from 2010 Tony Winner for Best Play "Red," featuring interviews with that production's stars Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne and director, Michael Grandage. John Logan's "Red" is the biographical play that frames a moment in the life of abstract-impressionist painter Mark Rothko as he is creating his dark red (and black) murals for the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram building, in 1958. |
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