Scott Cohen, Samuel West Set for Caryl Churchill's Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?

Scott Cohen and Samuel West will star in the U.S. premiere of Caryl Churchill's Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? at the Public Theater. This two-character play, directed by James Macdonald, comes to The Public after an acclaimed run at the Royal Court Theatre in London in November 2006. Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? will begin previews on March 5 and open in March 16. The limited off-Broadway engagement is scheduled to run through April 6.

The Public's news release does not reveal the plot of Churchill's new play, but reviews in London said that is uses a male affair as a metaphor for England's submissiveness to America on foreign policy. Ty Burrell and Stephen Dillane starred in the Royal Court production, directed by Macdonald, who collaborated with Churchill on New York Theatre Workshop's production of her play A Number.

Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? is the sixth Churchill play to have its U.S. premiere at the Public, following Top Girls which will be revived on Broadway in April by Manhattan Theatre Club, Fen, Serious Money, Ice Cream With Hot Fudge and The Skriker.

Cohen appeared on Broadway last season in Losing Louie and has appeared off-Broadway in Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine and The Crucible. His numerous appearances at Williamstown Theater Festival include The Big Knife, La Ronde, The American Clock, Henry IV, Mother Courage and Passion. He will will play businessman Marcus Sonti on the upcoming FOX sitcom The Return of Jezebel James and was recently seen on ABC's Cashmere Mafia. Film credits include the upcoming Iron Cross and Winter of Frozen Dreams as well as Kissing Jessica Stein, Jacob's Ladder, A Brother's Kiss, The Mambo Kings, Private Parts, Knots and Brother's Shadow.

West has starred on the London stage in the title roles in Richard II and Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Octavius Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra for the Royal National Theatre; The Master in The Master and Margarita at the Chichester Festival Theatre; Caryl Churchill's A Number at the Studio Theatre, Sheffield and Minerva Theatre; and, most recently, a critically acclaimed revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Donmar Warehouse. An active director, he was appointed Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres in 2005, where he oversaw a revival of The Romans in Britain and directed As You Like It for the RSC's Complete Works Festival. In 2006, he made his West End directorial debut with a revival of Dealer's Choice.