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Blue Train

The Winter New Play Intensive

December 16th at 7 pm

Tuesday, December 16th at 7 pm

BLUE TRAIN

By Sam Marks

Directed by Kimberly Senior

Part of the Winter New Play Intensive

The Maso Studio in The Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115.

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The Winter New Play Intensive is a series where audiences can take a peek inside the artistic development process. Theatremakers of many disciplines join forces to collaborate on exciting new projects, and we hope you’ll join us at public events where artists will share their work-in-progress.

About the Play:

In Sam Marks’ newest play Blue Train, a blended family discovers everything interpersonal is subject to monetary value — from bonds between father and son to second marriages to co-parenting. Jake hopes his father Alan’s beloved beach retreat will pass to him and his children, but Alan’s declining health and his second wife Brenda stand in the way. Caught in a familial tug-of-war, each of them must confront an unsettling truth: can even the things we cherish most be negotiated, traded, or taken away?

 

Featuring:  Kate Arrington*, Jack Greenberg, Greg Keller*, Chloé Kohhlbenheyer*, Karen MacDonald*, Joe Tippett*, and Peter Van Wagner*

About the Artist:

Sam Marks previously developed his plays Cells and The Department Party at the Huntington. His plays include The Delling Shore (Humana Festival of New American Plays) The Old Masters (Steppenwolf), The Joke (Studio Dante, directed by Sam Gold) and Nelson (Partial Comfort Productions). He wrote for The Arboretum Experience (A.R.T, created by Kirsten Greenidge). He is under commission from Playwrights Horizons, and also has collaborated on theater projects with Simon McBurney, Theater Complicite, and Courtney Love. His plays have been developed at Arena Stage, Atlantic Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Rattlestick, the Vineyard, and others. A former Golden Gloves Boxer, he teaches playwriting at Harvard University, where he is also the director of creative writing.

* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

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