Trumpery at the Linda Gross Theater

The Atlantic Theater Company has announced the full datails of its second production of its 2007-2008 season, the world premiere production of Peter Parnell�s play Trumpery, directed by David Esbjornson, opening at the Atlantic's Linda Gross Theater on 5 Dec 2007, following previews from 14 Nov and running through to 30 Dec 2007.

Trumpery will feature Bianca Amato (Broadway�s 'The Coast of Utopia'), Michael Countryman (Broadway�s 'Night Must Fall', Atlantic�s 'The Bald Soprano'), Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning actor, playwright and screenwriter Michael Cristofer (The Public Theater�s 'Romeo and Juliet', 'The Shadow Box', 'The Witches of Eastwick'), Tony Award nominee Manoel Felciano (Broadway�s 'Sweeney Todd'), Neal Huff (Broadway�s 'Take Me Out', HBO�s 'The Wire'), Peter Maloney (Atlantic�s 'The Voysey Inheritance', 'The Room') and Paris Rose Yates (The Public Theater�s 'King Lear').

It is 1858. Charles Darwin (Michael Cristofer) struggles to finish The Origin of Species, and give the world his theory of natural selection, while coping with family illness and his own loss of faith. Meanwhile, halfway around the world, an unknown explorer named Wallace (Manoel Felciano) is about to come up with the exact same theory.

Trumpery examines what it means to live in a Darwinian universe from the point of view of the man who discovered the idea.

Playwright Peter Parnell returns to Atlantic Theater Company, which produced the New York debut production of his stage adaptation of John Irving�s 'The Cider House Rules', winner of the American Theatre Critics Association Award.

The design team for Trumpery features scenic design by Tony Award winner Santo Loquasto, costume design by fifteen-time Tony Award nominee Jane Greenwood, lighting design by James Ingalls and sound design by Obadiah Eaves.