Cast Announced for Glen Berger's Wooden Breeks at MCC
A comic tale set in the hamlet of Brood, The Wooden Breeks invokes a world peopled by a large cast of dreamers, schemers and various sets of would-be lovers. Tormented by the memory of a beautiful young woman he adored and lost, and saddled with the bastard child she left behind as a painful reminder of their doomed romance, a village tinker-turned-poet tries to ease his pain by conjuring up a hilarious and extremely moving theatrical tale, a story made up for the young boy as they sit in front of the dying embers of their hearth.
Cancelmi was part of the Vincent in Brixton Broadway company. Cox, a veteran stage performer who received a Tony nomination for her work in Company, recently appeared off-Broadway in A Mother, A Daughter and A Gun. Dizzia's regional theater credits include Eurydice, Agnes of God and Twelfth Night. Dornan plays a young Jimmy Page in the upcoming film The Notorious Bettie Page. Jones appeared on Broadway in Gem of the Ocean. Mellor's credits include Big River on Broadway and Plenty off-Broadway. Reeder was featured in Sight Unseen on the Great White Way and has many off-Broadway credits, including Humble Boy, Small Tragedy and Hedda Gabler. Last season Rothenberg starred in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea off-Broadway. Smith, who received a Drama Desk nomination for his work in Underneath the Lintel, recently appeared off-Broadway in Thom Pain based on nothing.