Artistic Associate and co-founder of Fault Line Theatre Tristan Jeffers has assisted set designer Eugene Lee on Grasses of a Thousand Colors by Wallace Shawn, a co-production between The Public Theatre and Theatre for a New Audience. The play is part of a retrospective celebrating the 40 year artistic collaboration between Wallace Shawn and André Gregory that also includes the first New York revival of Shawn’s The Designated Mourner.
October 7 – November 24, 2013.
The Public Theatre
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003
212-539-8500
A LITTLE ABOUT THE PLAY
Shawn’s most outlandish work to date, GRASSES OF A THOUSAND COLORS, is a disturbing and anomalously beautiful play that explores the role of human beings in nature and the role of nature in human beings, sexuality being as Shawn says, “nature’s most obvious footprint in the human soul.” The play’s central character is a doctor who believes he has solved world hunger when he figures out how to rejigger the metabolisms of animals to tolerate eating their own kind. This has unexpected consequences. The play tells a story about the doctor, his wife, and his lovers, that is also a story about human beings and animals and the planet we live on.
CAST:
- Julie Hagerty
- Emily Cass McDonnell
- Kristina Mueller
- Wallace Shawn
- Jennifer Tilly
PRODUCTION TEAM:
- Playwright - Wallace Shawn
- Director - André Gregory