Brits Off-Broadway 2006 at 59e59 Theatres

59e59 Theatres announce the 2006 lineup for their annual festival Brits off-Broadway. The festival presents 11 shows from Britian.

The Brits Off-Broadway 2006 presents:

• The Bogus Woman
  Playwrite: Kay Adshead
  Director: Kully Thiarai
  Cast: Sarah Niles
  Synopsis: After fleeing her country following the mass murder of her family, a distressed and beaten African woman is interrogated at Heathrow, and subsequently locked up in the UK's national refugee detention center, Campsfield House.
  Venue: 59E59's Theater C
  Dates: 2 - 21 May
  
  
• Defying Hitler
  Playwrite: Sebastian Haffner and adapted for the stage by Rupert Wickham
  Director: Peter Symonds
  Cast: Rupert Wickham
  Synopsis: An adaptation of the memoirs of Sebastian Haffner, a young German growing up in Berlin between the two world wars.
  Venue: 59E59's Theater C
  Dates: 2 - 21 May
  
  
• Beau Brummell
  Playwrite: Ron Hutchinson
  Director: Tom Rand
  Cast: Ian Kelly and Ryan Early
  Synopsis: About Beau Brummell, the legendary British dandy.
  Venue: 59E59's Theater B
  Dates: 9 May - 11 Jun
  
  
• Cooking For Kids
  Playwrite: Ian Kelly
  Director: Simon Green
  Cast: Ian Kelly
  Synopsis: A solo show based on the life of Antonin Careme, the first celebrity chef, and follows his rise to become a chef for Napoleon, the Prince Regent, Tsar Alexander I and others.
  Venue: 59E59's Theater B
  Dates: 10 May - 11 Jun
  
  
• Gecko's Race
  Playwrite: Gecko
  Director: Amit Lahav and Al Nedjari
  Cast: Gecko
  Synopsis: In the mania of modernity, one man is on a collision course with his future, sprinting to the most important moment of his life. But will he be ready?
  Numbed by the ordinary world, an extraordinary experience is upon him. How can a man prepare to meet his first child? Something so beautiful and yet so shocking. What will he feel the moment he sees his child's eyes?
  Venue: 59E59's Theater A
  Dates: 16 May - 4 Jun
  
  
  
• Cloud-Burst
  Playwrite: Chris O'Connell
  Director: Chris O'Connell
  Cast: Graeme Hawley
  Synopsis: A man struggles to pick up the pieces after the murder of his 10 year-old daughter.
  Venue: 59E59's Theater C
  Dates: 23 May - 11 Jun
  
  
• Private Peaceful
  Playwrite: Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Simon Reade
  Director: Simon Reade
  Cast: Alexander Campbell.
  Synopsis: A tale of a 16 year-old World War 1 soldier's final hours before a dawn execution by firing squad.
  Venue: 59E59's Theater C
  Dates: 24 May - 11 Jun
  
  
• Nothing
  Playwrite: Adapted from the novel by Henry Green by Andrea Hart
  Director: Philip Prowse
  Cast: Cast of seven led by Sophie Ward and Simon Dutton
  Synopsis: A caustic comedy of manners surrounding the impending marriage of the children of two ex-lovers.
  Venue: 59E59's Theater A
  Dates: 7 Jun - 2 Jul
  
  
• After The End
  Playwrite: Dennis Kelly
  Director: Roxana Silbert
  Cast: Loo Breakley and Tom Brooke
  Synopsis: Following a nuclear attack, office geek Mark risks his life to rescue the woman he has worshipped from afar, sheltering them both in his nuclear fallout bunker. Living on rations of tuna and canned chili, Louise begins to suspect that perhaps this nuclear attack never happened.
  Venue: 59E59's Theater B
  Dates: 13 Jun - 2 Jul
  
  
• Stories For The Wobbly Hearted
  Playwrite: Daniel Kitson
  Cast: Daniel Kitson
  Synopsis: A collection of joyous, intimate, funny, sad, poignant and life affirming stories told by lamplight.
  Venue: 59E59's Theater C
  Dates: 13 - 28 Jun
  
  
• Love Me Tender - The Songs Of Elvis Presley
  Cast: Barb Jungr
  Synopsis: Barb Jungr interprets the song book of The King, Elvis Presley. A dark and intriguing journey through, love, loneliness, obsession and faith, Love Me Tender explores some of his lesser-known gospel songs and mines the hits that made him a legend.
  Venue: 59E59's Theater C
  Dates: 29 Jun - 2 Jul