The Sunset Limited
A Modern Drama
by Cormac McCarthy
directed by Preston Lane
February 13 – March 6, 2011
Life matters.
An African-American ex-con saves the life of a white professor on a subway platform in New York City, even though the professor didn’t wish for such deliverance. The incident leads the two men back to a Harlem apartment where hope and despair clash in a battle that shakes both men to the core of their existence. Is one an angel? Is the other completely lost? Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist McCarthy’s fierce and passionate writing explodes in this drama of two lives changed forever by an act of grace.
“Lane makes our ride on The Sunset Limited a roller coaster of emotions, a back-and-forth transit between belief and non-belief...It’s a gripping, intense, sometimes comical, stare-down of the Grim Reaper.”
–Lynn Jessup, Classical Voice of North Carolina
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Frank Stasio interviews Dr. Stacey Peebles (editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal) and actors Harold Surratt and Kevin Kelly on WUNC Public Radio's The State of Things. Listen to the interview
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Preston Lane (Director)is in his 10th season at Triad Stage where he has directed over 30 productions. Preston is the recipient of the 2008 Betty Cone Medal of the Arts and is in his third year as the Artistic Partner for Theatre for An Appalachian Summer Festival. He was formerly Artistic Associate at the Dallas Theater Center, where his productions included the US premiere of Inexpressible Island (Dallas Observer Best of Dallas Awards: Best Director, Best Production) and The Night of the Iguana (Dallas Morning News:2002 Top Ten Theatre List). As a playwright, his adaptations have been produced at Triad Stage, Dallas Theater Center and Sonoma Rep. His work with musician Laurelyn Dossett includes Brother Wolf (Triad Stage, An Appalachian Summer Festival, The Human Race Theatre Company and St. Olaf College), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage and WaterTower Theatre), Bloody Blackbeard and Providence Gap. Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star and Ghosts are published by Playscripts Inc. He has taught at UNCG, NC A&T, UNCSA, Greensboro College, SMU, and the Professional Actors Workshop at the Dallas Theater Center. He is an alumnus of the Drama League of New York’s Director’s Project. A native of Boone, NC, Preston received his BFA from NCSA and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He blogs about theater at http://thislittleworld-triadstage.typepad.com/this-little-world/ |
| Alexander Dodge (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: Providence Gap, Bloody Blackbeard, The Caretaker, Das Barbecü, Debunked, Our Town and Julie’s Dance. Broadway: Present Laughter (2010 Tony Award nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley, Hedda Gabler. Off-Broadway: Trust, Water’s Edge (Second Stage); The Understudy (Roundabout); Observe the Sons of Ulster (Lortel Award); Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center); Antony and Cleopatra (TFANA); Measure for Pleasure, Paris Commune (Public Theatre); Force Continuum (Atlantic). Regional: Alley, Arena Stage, Centerstage, The Gate-Dublin, Geffen, Guthrie, Hartford, Huntington, Taper, Old Globe, Shakespeare DC, Stratford Canada, Williamstown. Opera: Il Tritico (Berlin), Waffenshmeid (Munich), Lohengrin (Budapest), Flying Dutchman (Würzburg). Education: MFA, Yale. | |
| Kelsey Hunt (Costume Designer) is in her 6th season as Resident Designer at Triad Stage. Favorite past productions include: Ghosts (USITT-SE Design Expo ‘09 award winner); The Night of the Iguana, Tobacco Road, Brother Wolf; and A Streetcar Named Desire (honorable mention, best production design, Independent Weekly). She has worked with UNCG Theatre, Peace College, Glimmerglass Opera, Firebrand Theory Theatre Co., The Lortel Theatre and Lisa Zinni of Broadway’s Rent. Kelsey is a founding member of Hand in The Fire Theater Company which recently presented a production of One Flea Spare at Elsewhere Collaborative. | |
| John Wolf (Lighting Designer) The Sunset Limited is John's 30th production at Triad Stage, including the world premieres of Bloody Blackbeard, Brother Wolf, Debunked, Beautiful Star and Providence Gap. In New York designs at Lion Theatre, Center Stage, Soho Rep, Gene Frankel Theatre, Trinity Theatre, Symphony Space and Lincoln Center. Regional: North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Mill Mountain Theatre. University Theatre: UNCG, University of Florida, University of Tennessee, University of Nebraska Opera. John is a Professor of Theatre at UNCG. Education: MFA, University of Alabama; The Julliard School of Music. | |
| Kate Brown (Sound Designer) Triad Stage: Educating Rita. Kate is currently persuing a Master of Fine Arts for Sound Design at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from Virginia Tech. She worked for the Vail International Dance Festival, I.A.S.T.E., Local 22 in Washington as well as designing for the Virginia Commonwealth Coalition and the V-Day Campaign. |
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| Nicholas Hussong (Projection Designer) Triad Stage: Artistic Associate of Design; MainStage: The Glass Menagerie (2010), Providence Gap (2010), Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow (2010), and Around the World in 80 Days (2010). UpStage Cabaret: An Evening of Southern DIScomfort (2010), The Santaland Diaries (2008-2010) and Mad at Miles (2009). Chicago Regional: Production Manager for three Joseph Jefferson-nominated productions at American Theatre Company: The People’s Temple, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, and Speech and Debate. |
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| Drew Barker (Dramaturg) is Triad Stage’s Artistic Associate and Resident Dramaturg, and a former Theater and Advanced Placement English teacher. Regional: Assistant to the Director of five shows at Triad Stage, Assistant Director of Oleanna at An Appalachian Summer Festival, Director of One Flea Spare, the first play by the Hand in Fire Theater Company produced in collaboration with Elsewhere Collaborative. Education: UNC Greensboro, BFA Theater Education & English, Study Abroad at the University of Hull, England and an Undergraduate Research Assistantship in Greensboro Theater History. | |
| Cindi Rush (Casting Director) New York: The Time of Mendel’s Trouble, Peaceman, Jacques Brel, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, The Thing About Men, Showtune, I Sing, Urinetown, Say Goodnight Gracie. Regional: Triad Stage, Act II Playhouse, Arena Stage, Goodman, Cape Cod Theatre Project, NOHO Arts Center (including “Pest Control”, “Dorian” and “Ghost and Mrs. Muir”), Actors Theatre of Louisville Humanafest. Film: Offspring, Made For Each Other, Home Movie, Jack Ketchum’s: The Girl Next Door, Headspace, Funny Valentine, Master Class. Other: Hats (Denver, New Orleans, Chicago). Casting Society of America Member, Casting Consultant for National Alliance For Musical Theatre, Casting Consultant for NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing. | |
| Bree Sherry* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage debut. New York: Fringe Festival 2010; American Gypsy (Kraine Theatre with Magic Mouth Theatre); My Sweet Charlie (Abingdon Theatre with LXP Productions). Regional: The Cocoanuts, Smokey Joe’s Café, Chicago, Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Musical (Seaside Music Theater); Cinderella, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hairspray (North Shore Music Theatre); The Servant of Two Masters, Rough Crossing (Yale Repertory Theatre). Education: MFA in Stage Management from Yale University, School of Drama. |
*Member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
