MTC Adds Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie to Season at Biltmore

The Manhattan Theatre Club has added Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie to its 2005-2006 lineup at Broadway's Biltmore Theatre. The company also announced that Ariel Dorfman's The Other Side and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Based on a Totally True Story will be seen off-Broadway at City Center as part of the MTC season schedule.

After Miss Julie, a re-imagining of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, unfolds on the night of the British Labour Party's landslide victory in 1945, telling the tale of an upper-class young woman's tragic midsummer fling with a chauffeur. After Miss Julie was first created as a teleplay and the resulting movie aired on the BBC in 1995. It made its stage premiere at the Donmar Warehouse in 2003.

Dorfman's The Other Side, which will play at City Center's Stage I, is set in a war torn country, where a man and a woman wait. They pass their days identifying the casualties. When peace and a border guard arrive, their bleakly predictable world unravels. Blanka Zizka is set to direct.

Aguirre-Sacasa's Based on a Totally True Story centers on Ethan Keene, a young playwright and comic book writer who is on the verge of breaking through. When a veteran Hollywood producer decides she wants to turn one of his plays into a horror movie, the frenzy that follows forces him to deal with the real drama in his life--his relationships with his boyfriend and his father. MTC Director of Artistic Production Michael Bush directs the world premiere, which is slated for City Center Stage II.

These productions join the previously announced MTC season. Absurd Person Singular which will now be directed by John Tillinger instead of Lynne Meadow will open the season at the Biltmore, followed by Rabbit Hole and then After Miss Julie. In addition to Based on a Totally True Story, Nilo Cruz's Beauty of the Father will play on Stage II. A second production for Stage I will be announced at a later date.