Neil Simon's Rewrites, a stage play based on the playwright's memoir of the same name, will have its world premiere at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. The piece, which is rumored for a spring 2006 Broadway bow, is scheduled to run out of town from January 16 through February 18.
Rewrites centers on Eugene, a young man about to experience two births--his first child and his first Broadway play. As the producers, the director and the playwright himself slog through more than 20 rewrites of the script, Eugene receives a lesson in the complexity of bringing this most collaborative of art forms to fruition. Success is sweet, but as Eugene's fame grows to match his talent, he also discovers that fame is not a shelter from life's harsher realities.
The 2005-2006 Seattle Rep season, the first under new Artistic Director David Esbjornson, will also include Carlo Gozzi's The King Stag in a new adaptation by Shelley Berc and Andrei Belgrader, Ariel Dorfman's Purgatorio, Amy Freed's Restoration Comedy, the new musical Temple by Seattle creators Norman Durkee and Silvia Peto, Jeffrey Hatcher's stage play of Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, Ping Chong's Cathay: Three Tales from China and 9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo.
