Lynn Redgrave will headline MCC Theater's New York premiere production of Grace next season. The play, by Mick Gordon and AC Grayling, will run from January 23 to March 8, 2008, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. No director has been announced; Gordon directed a December 2006 production at London's SoHo Theatre starring Gemma Jones.
Grace is described as an examination of faith and family in the contemporary age, pitting Grace, a noted scientist and avowed atheist, against her son Tom, a lawyer planning to become a Christian minister. When tragedy strikes, Grace becomes even more obstinate, and Tom's father and pregnant fiancée are caught in the crossfire.
Redgrave recently presented the third in a trilogy of autobiographical solo shows, Nightingale a fictional meditation on the life of her maternal grandmother, Beatrice Kempson, at Hartford Stage. Nightingale followed Shakespeare for My Father, which examined her relationship with Sir Michael Redgrave, and Mandrake, loosely based on her mother, actress Rachel Kempson. Redgrave was nominated for a 2006 Tony Award for The Constant Wife and has appeared on Broadway in Moon Over Buffalo, The Master Builder and Saint Joan, among others. Recent off-Broadway credits include Talking Heads and The Exonerated.
