Small Tragedy
- Written by Craig Lucas
- Directed by Mark Wing-Davey
Playwrights: Prayer for My Enemy, Small Tragedy, Three Postcards. Other plays: Missing Persons, Prelude to a Kiss, God’s Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, The Singing Forest, Ode To Joy, among others. Libretti: The Light in the Piazza, Two Boys, Orpheus in Love, Amélie. Screenplays: Longtime Companion, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, The Dying Gaul. Direction: The Light in the Piazza, This Thing of Darkness (coauthored with David Schulner), Saved Or Destroyed, Play Yourself, Ode to Joy; the films The Dying Gaul and Birds of America. Lucas has been a Pulitzer finalist, won three Obie awards, and received three Tony nominations. Recipient of Excellence in Literature Award from American Academy of Arts & Letters.
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A British director, actor and teacher - from 1988-1990, MARK WING-DAVEY was Artistic Director of the Acting Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He had directed and taught there over the course of 15 years and in early1990 originated the project about the Rumanian Revolution which was to become the internationally award-winning play by Caryl Churchill, MAD FOREST. MAD FOREST played in London, at Central School, then the National Theatre in Bucharest and finally, it transferred to the Royal Court Theatre, in London, for an extended engagement where it received several awards. In 1996, Mr. Wing-Davey directed the U.S. premiere of Caryl Churchill’s THE SKRIKER at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, which was nominated for six 1997 Drama Desk Awards including Best Director. He holds an MA from Cambridge University – where he read English at Gonville and Caius College and was state educated in the UK at Primrose Hill Primary School, and Woolverstone Hall School.
Backstage and global politics unexpectedly collide when an enterprising Boston director stages his own translation of Oedipus Rex in this timely, multi-layered, and powerful new play.
Featuring
Rob Campbell
Rosemarie DeWitt
Daniel Eric Gold
Lee Pace
Ana Reeder
Mary Shultz
Playwrights Horizons: The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters, Small Tragedy (Obie Award, Lortel nomination). Broadway: All the Way, Translations, Ivanov. Off-Broadway: Anne Washburn’s Iphegenia in Aulis, Mad Forest, In the Blood, The Singing Forest, Him, Lascivious Something, Orphan of Zhao, The Illusion, House For Sale, Living Room in Africa. Film: Unforgiven, Boys Don't Cry, The Crucible, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rabbit Hole.
Creative Team
Douglas Stein
Scenic DesignerMarina Draghici
Costume DesignerJennifer Tipton
Lighting DesignerJohn Gromada
Sound DesignerThom Widmann
Production Stage ManagerPhotos of (1) Mary Shultz, Ana Reeder, and Rosemarie DeWitt; (2) Rosemarie DeWitt, Lee Pace, Daniel Eric Gold, Rob Campbell, Mary Shultz, and Ana Reeder; (3) Ana Reeder and Lee Pace; and (4) Mary Shultz, Rob Campbell, Daniel Eric Gold, Ana Reeder, Lee Pace, and Rosemarie DeWitt by Joan Marcus.
Small Tragedy is filled with provocative questions that American plays should be asking at a fraught and confusing moment in this country's history. Mr. Lucas appreciates that extreme times demand extreme theater. His habitual brooding fatalism has never seemed more relevant.