EXCLUSIVE: And Then We Were No More, a new play by actor-author Tim Blake Nelson, will star Homeland‘s Elizabeth Marvel when is begins performances in September at Off Broadway‘s La MaMa.
Produced by La MaMa and Carol Ostrow of Stop the Wind Theatricals, the play will be directed by Mark Wing-Davey, with previews beginning September 19 and an opening set for September 28. The staging will be a limited engagement.
The synopsis: In the not-too-distant future a lawyer is forced to represent a prisoner deemed ‘beyond rehabilitation’ and destined to perish in a newly developed machine designed to execute ‘without pain.’ The attorney must strive for justice in a system devoid of mercy.
“I am honored to present my play with Carol Ostrow at La MaMa, a New York institution I have long admired for its willingness to stage challenging, boundary-pushing new works for the American theater,” said the playwright. “My favorite plays and productions provoke, in a smart but visceral way, tough conversations about the world in which we live. My hope is that New York audiences will find some of that in what we’re up to with this piece.”
Said producer Ostrow, “When I read Tim’s urgent and remarkable new play, I knew I wanted to bring this story to the stage, and LaMaMa is the perfect partner and venue to do so. And Then We Were No More invites audiences to grapple with thorny questions we are often too afraid to ask. I couldn’t be more excited to work with Tim and the entire creative team on this prescient, thought-provoking work.”
In addition to Marvel, whose credits also include Broadway’s King Lear and Othe Desert Cities and, for TV House of Cards, the new play will feature Scott Shepherd, Jennifer Mogbock, Henry Stram, Elizabeth Yeoman, William Appiah, E.J. An, ]Kasey Connolly and Craig Wesley Divino.
And Then We Were No More features scenic design by David Meyer, lighting design by Reza Behjat, costume design by Marina Draghici, and sound design by Henry Nelson and Will Curry.
