Aubergine
- Written by Julia Cho
- Directed by Kate Whoriskey
At Playwrights Horizons: BFE (Long Wharf Theatre co-production). Her other plays include Office Hour, The Language Archive, The Piano Teacher, Durango, The Winchester House, The Architecture of Loss and 99 Histories. Her work has been produced in New York at Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theater, The Vineyard Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop, and regionally at theaters such as Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, South Coast Repertory and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Honors include the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Barrie Stavis Award, the Claire Tow Award for Emerging Artists and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award for Playwriting. She has also been the recipient of a New York Foundation for The Arts grant, a Van Lier Fellowship from New York Theatre Workshop and residences at Hedgebrook, the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Sundance Theatre Lab and the MacDowell Colony. Julia is an alumna of Amherst College, New York University, The Juilliard School and New Dramatists.
(as of 08/23/16)
Photo by Zack DeZon
At Playwrights Horizons: Fabulation, Inked Baby. Other New York credits include the recent Her Requiem at LCT3, The Miracle Worker on Broadway, Dear Elizabeth at The Women’s Project, Tales from Red Vienna and Ruined at Manhattan Theatre Club (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel nominations), How I Learned to Drive at Second Stage Theatre, The Piano Teacher at the Vineyard Theatre, Oroonoko at TFANA and Massacre at the Labyrinth Theatre Company (of which she is a member). Recent Regional credits include Lynn Nottage’s Sweat at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Arena Stage.
(as of 08/23/2016)
New York Premiere
A man shares a bowl of berries, and a young woman falls in love. A world away, a mother prepares a bowl of soup to keep her son from leaving home. And a son cooks a meal for his dying father to say everything that words can’t. In Julia Cho’s poignant and lyrical new play, the making of a perfect meal is an expression more precise than language, and the medium through which life gradually reveals itself.
Featuring
Tim Kang
Ray
Sue Jean Kim
Cornelia
Jessica Love
Diane
Stephen Park
Ray's Father
Michael Potts
Lucien
Joseph Steven Yang
Uncle
TIM KANG (Ray). Playwrights Horizons debut. Regional: Aubergine (Berkeley Rep, World Premiere), Mother Courage & Her Children, Richard II (A.R.T.).
Playwrights Horizons: Assistance, The Drunken City, BFE. Off-Broadway: 10 out of 12 (Soho Rep.), Water by the Spoonful (Second Stage), The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick). Regional: The Chinese Room (Williamstown). Film: Maggie’s Plan, James White, Bachelorette. TV: “Girls,” “Elementary,” “Falling Water,” “High Maintenance,” “Delocated,” “Cop Show,” “Alpha House,” “Nurse Jackie.” MFA: NYU.
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Playwrights Horizons debut. Broadway: The River, The Snow Geese, Grace. Off-Broadway: The Rivals (Pearl), Bottom of the World (Atlantic). Regional: As You Like It, Measure for Measure (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); The Moors (Yale Rep); Anna Christie (Old Globe); Bachelorette (Studio Theater); Map of Heaven, When Tang Met Laika (Denver Center). Training: Juilliard. She’s also a children’s book author and illustrator.
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Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: Aunt Dan and Lemon, Eating Chicken Feet, The New Paradigm, Paternity. Regional: East of Eden, Dumb Waiter, Ivanov, A Language of Their Own, Big Hunk O’ Burnin’ Love. Film: The Gambler, Snowpiercer, A Serious Man, State of Play, Fargo, Falling Down, Kindergarten Cop, Do the Right Thing. TV: “Person of Interest,” “The Mindy Project,” “Elementary,” “White Collar,” “Law & Order.”
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Playwrights Horizons: Grey Gardens; Mud, River, Stone. Broadway: The Book of Mormon, Lennon. Off-Broadway: Mother Courage, The Tempest, Richard III, Arms and the Man, The Persians, Cabin in the Sky, The America Play, Twelfth Night, Rent. Film/TV: Conspiracy Theory, Stonewall, The Peacemaker, “True Detective,” “The Wire,” “Damages,” “Gotham.” Obie, Grammy awards. Kennedy Center Fellow. Graduate: Yale School of Drama.
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Playwrights Horizons debut. Regional: Aubergine (Berkeley Rep); A Single Shard, Tibet Through the Red Box (Seattle Children’s Theatre); Take Me Out (Mixed Blood Theatre); Making Tracks (Village Theater); A Language of Their Own, A Chorus Line (Repertory Actors Theater) Film: Eden, Behind Enemy Lines II, Alien Raiders, BFE, A Life That Matters, Kissing Cousins, Deface. TV: “Gilmore Girls,” “Zoey 101.”
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Creative Team
Derek McLane
Scenic DesignJennifer Moeller
Costume DesignPeter Kaczorowski
Lighting DesignM.L. Dogg
Sound DesignCole P. Bonenberger
Production Stage ManagerPlaywrights: Aubergine, Familiar, The Qualms, Stage Kiss, The Great God Pan. Broadway: Dividing the Estate. Other Off-Broadway: Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout); Linda (MTC); The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Comedy of Errors (The Public/Delacorte); February House, Yellowface, Wrecks (The Public); He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, Tamburlaine Parts I & II, The Killer (TFANA); Night Is a Room, The Liquid Plain, The Old Friends, The Dance and the Railroad, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Landscape of the Body, The Trip to Bountiful (Signature). Regional: Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The Acting Company, Trinity Rep, Westport Country Playhouse.
A rich stew imbued with gentle humor and quiet simplicity, served with a tender side dish of unspoken love spiced with subtle comic seasoning.
A sensitive, cleareyed drama with excellent acting.
Totally delectable! The impressive Aubergine demonstrates that Julia Cho is a first class playwright.
