Playwrights Horizons Considers Presenting James Lapine's Fran's Bed

Broadway.com has learned that Playwrights Horizons is expected to present James Lapine's Fran's Bed as part of its 2005-2006 season. The show has starred Mia Farrow throughout its development.

Fran's Bed is a family drama that focuses on two grown daughters as they face their sick mother, Fran, and the many secrets of her life.

Fran's Bed, with Farrow in the title role, has previously been seen at Vassar College as part of the New York Stage and Film season and Long Wharf Theatre. Frank Rizzo of Variety wrote of the Long Wharf presentation: "If the characters in James Lapine's new play seem familiar, it's no wonder. They are the broad-brushed people facing life's traumas whom we've met many times before onstage, in film and especially on daytime TV. This is in part intentional: Lapine places the banalities of his characters beside the soap operas that main character Fran loves to watch on TV. But to what end? Does he mean to suggest life is as contrived, tedious and generic as the stories on TV? The answer isn't clear in this postmodern take on One Life to Live, which even the radiance of Mia Farrow as Fran cannot illuminate."

A production spokesperson could not confirm plans for Fran's Bed.