Jordan Harrison's Maple & Vine Completes Playwrights Horizons' 2011-2012 Season

Playwrights Horizons has announced that Jordan Harrison’s Maple & Vine will complete the company’s 2011-2012 season. The play will be presented on the Mainstage Theater as the third of six productions, directed by Anne Kauffman. No specific dates or casting has been announced.

Maple & Vine had its world premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in March 2011 in a production that won praise from New York Times critic Charles Isherwood. The play centers on Katha and Ryu, two women who have become allergic to their 21st-century lives. After they meet a charismatic man from a community of 1950s re-enactors, they forsake cell phones and sushi for cigarettes and Tupperware parties. In this compulsively authentic world, Katha and Ryu are surprised by what their new neighbors—and they themselves—are willing to sacrifice for happiness.

Playwrights Horizons had previously announced five plays for the coming season: Completeness by Itamar Moses; Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenridge; Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo; Assistance by Leslye Headland; and The Big Meal by Dan LeFranc.