Stephen Rea and Sean McGinley Join Atlantic's Ages of the Moon; Gabriel Added to Season
Oscar and Tony Award nominee Stephen Rea and Sean McGinley will reprise their starring roles in Atlantic Theater Company’s upcoming production of Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard’s Ages of the Moon. The play, directed by Jimmy Fay, marks Shepard’s Atlantic debut. Previews begin January 12, 2010, with opening night set for January 27. The limited engagement will continue through March 7 at the Linda Gross Theater.
Atlantic also announced the American premiere of Moira Buffini’s play Gabriel as part of the company's 2009-2010 season. The show begins previews in April in anticipation of a May 2010 opening at the Linda Gross Theater. Casting, dates and creative details will be announced shortly.
In Ages of the Moon, Byron (McGinley) and Ames (Rea) are old friends re-united by mutual desperation. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun. The production first played Ireland’s Abbey Theatre in March 2009.
Gabriel is set around a largely forgotten moment in British history: the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. A naked young man washes up on a Guernsey beach. Unnervingly handsome, he's fluent in both German and English but has no recollection of who he is. Patriot or Nazi? Innocent or madman? Or does it depend entirely on your point of view?
Rea received a Tony Award nomination for Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me. Off-Broadway, he appeared in Shepard's Kicking a Dead Horse. He is best know for his Academy Award-nominated turn in The Crying Game. Additional film credits include Interview with a Vampire, Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy, In Dreams, End of the Affair, V for Vendetta, The Reaping and Ondine.
McGinley is an Irish stage regular, appearing in productions including The Glass Menagerie, Loot, Private Dick, The Playboy of the Western World, Corsican Brothers, Whistle in the Dark, Much Ado About Nothing, The Shaurgaun and The Hackney Office, among many others. Film credits include The Running Mate, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, 66, On a Clear Day, Braveheart, Michael Collings, Gangs of New York, Dead Bodies, Conspiracy of Silence and Angela’s Ashes.
Playwright Buffini’s work has appeared on London’s West End, as well as on UK and American stages. Her plays include Dinner, which was nominated for a 2002 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, as well as Loveplay, Silence, Blavatsky’s Tower, Jordan, Dying For It and A Vampire Story.
