Old Vic Gets Altman, Miller Play & Spacey in Moon for the Misbegotten in 2006
The Soldier's Tale, directed by Andrew Steggall, will run from January 26 through February 4. The story is a Faustian tale about a solider that sells his soul to the devil in return for infinite wealth. Abdulkareen Kasid and Rebecca Lenkiewicz have written a new version of the play to be used in this mounting. The new adaptation borrows from Iraq's recent history; this production will feature a blend of Iraqi and British actors and musicians. After the Old Vic, the show will come to the Culture Project in New York and then tour internationally.
Resurrection Blues, which premiered to mixed reviews at Minnesota's Guthrie Theatre in the summer of 2002, will run at the Old Vic from February 14 through April 22. Set in the mountains of a South American banana republic, Resurrection Blues takes a look at a community in which a revolution is brewing. When the rebels' messiah-like leader is captured, a New York production company swoops in to televise his execution--death by crucifixion--and an explosive chain of events ensues.
Spacey will take on Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten next September. The play centers on the bitter Hogan family. Josie, a towering woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation, lives in a dilapidated Connecticut farmhouse with her conniving father, Phil Hogan. Together they're a formidable force as they scrape together a livelihood. But Josie's softer side is exposed through her love of Jim Tyrone Spacey, Hogan's landlord and drinking buddy--a third-rate actor whose dreams of stardom were washed away by alcohol. Howard Davies, who previously directed Spacey in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, will helm this mounting.