Rue at Theater For The New City

Theater for the New City presents Rue, by August Schulenburg, at Theater For The New City's Joyce Theater from the 1 - 19 Mar 2006.

Rue is an imaginary island, like Illyria in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," that intoxicates its inhabitants with the madness of desire. In the sinful Southern half of the island of Rue, we meet Handsome, a poor charismatic bartender; his jilted lover Pip; and the rich and powerful Boss McReis. When McReis hires Handsome as the front-man of his swankiest hotel and bans Pip from following, she goes undercover as a boy to win Handsome back. Then Candace, desperate for a child, arrives at the hotel with her unhappy husband.

Rue' cast, directed by Kelly O'Donnell, features: Rachel Bauder, Ian Bedford, Kacy Christensen, Tiffany Clementi, Jessica Conrad, David Crommett, Liz Dailey, Will Ditterline, Candice Holdorf, Joseph Mathers, Michelle O'Connor, Jason Paradine, Colleen Raney, August Schulenburg, Rodman Spilling, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Victor Truro, Adina Verson, Laura Walczak, Gregory Waller and Cotton Wright.

The production has set and costumes design by Jared Klein, costumes by Jessa-Raye Court and lighting by Jared Klein & Rebecca Marzalek-Kelly.