Treason : Perry Street Theatre postpones its production

The Perry Street Theatre Company has postponed its production of Treason, by Sallie Bingham, until 2006. The show was to have opened at the Perry Street Theatre on the 23 Oct 2005.

Treason tells the extraordinary story of the American poet, composer, translator, iconoclast, anti-Semite, racist, and, possibly, traitor Ezra Pound � and five of the most important women in his life.

Considered by many to be the most important poet of the 20th Century, Treason takes Pound from his broadcasts for Radio Rome railing against the U.S. involvement in World War II through 1945 when he was arrested and jailed on 19 charges of treason at Pisa. Declared 'mentally unfit for trial' he was remanded to St. Elizabeth�s Hospital in Washington D.C. for 12 years. Pound was released only after a long campaign waged by admires such as Hemingway and Eliot.

Treason's cast was to be directed by Martin Platt and feature Sam Tsoutsouvas as Ezra Pound, Mary Bacon, Kathleen Early, Rodney Hicks, Shannon Koob, Pamela Nyberg, Lucas Caleb Rooney and Jennifer Sternberg.

The play was to have had set design by Bill Clarke, costumes by Martha Hally, lighting by Jeff Nellis and sound by by Lindsay Jones.