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Peter Friedman and Deanna Dunagan; photo by Joan Marcus

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Peter Friedman; photo by Joan Marcus

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Deanna Dunagan and Pun Bandhu; photo by Joan Marcus

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Deanna Dunagan; photo by Joan Marcus

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Deanna Dunagan and Marinda Anderson; photo by Joan Marcus

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Black and white portrait of playwright Max Posner, a white male wearing a denim collared shirt.

Max Posner; photo by Zack DeZon

The Treasurer


Peter Jay Sharp Theater


Written by Max Posner
Directed by David Cromer

World premiere
Playwrights Horizons Commission

The Son
I pay for her life, my brothers and I. All of it, for years. And I want to stop paying for it.

Ida Armstrong is broke, lonely, and fading fast. And she’s spending all of her children’s money, forcing her son to assume the unwanted role of The Treasurer: an arrangement that becomes untenable the more he questions his devotion to her. In this darkly funny, sharply intimate portrait, Max Posner chronicles the strained ties between a son and his aging mother, and the hell of a guilty conscience.

 

Featuring
Marinda Anderson
Allen, others
Pun Bandhu
Jeremy, others
Deanna Dunagan
Ida Armstrong
Creative Team
Laura Jellinek
Scenic Design
David Hyman
Costume Design
Bradley King
Lighting Design
Mikhail Fiksel
Sound Design
Lucy Mackinnon
Projection Design
Leah J. Loukas
Wig Design
Brett Anders
Production Stage Manager

Design Team Bios

Playwrights Horizons commission with funds provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Leading National Theatres Program.

The Treasurer is the recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award

Reviews
  • “CRITIC'S PICK! Max Posner has a sharp and original ear. Impeccably directed by David Cromer. Adroitly balances the everyday and the extreme.”

    — Ben Brantley, The New York Times | Read Full Article
  • “CRITIC'S PICK! ★★★★ Searching, subtle, emotional and personal.”

    — Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
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  • “A marvel and invaluable new play. Deanna Dunagan’s adjective-defying performance made my chest hurt. ”

    — Sara Holdren, New York Magazine | Read Full Article
  • “Posner’s revelations, touching on the linguistic, the sociological, and the theological, waver between the explicit and the mysterious, and gives us something funny and scary to ponder. ”

    — The New Yorker