Director Garry Hynes Returns to MTC to Helm Equivocation Off-Broadway

Tony-winning director Garry Hynes is returning to Manhattan Theatre Club. Hynes will helm the upcoming production of Bill Cain’s Equivocation at New York City Center – Stage I. The play will begin previews on February 9, 2010 and officially open on March 2, 2010.

Hynes returns to MTC after directing the company’s production of Brian Friel’s Translations. She made history by becoming the first woman to win a Tony for direction of a play for The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Her other directing credits include The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Lonesome West and DruidSynge, a production of the collected works of John Millington Synge mounted by the Druid Theatre, for which Hynes also serves as artistic director.

The new play is set in 1605 England and begins when King James’ right-hand man commissions William Shakespeare to write a new play about the Gunpowder Plot, a recent failed attempt to blow up Parliament and the Monarchy. Equivocation is a bold new look at the greatest playwright ever in a drama whose contemporary parallels are unmistakable.

Cast and creative team for the production will be announced in the coming weeks.