The National Theatre of Great Britain, Jean Doumanian Productions & Barrow Street Theatre present the US premiere of Lucy Prebble s award-winning play When it debuted, THE EFFECT took London by storm, winning BEST NEW PLAY from the UK Critics Circle. Now, award-winning director DAVID CROMER (Our Town, Tribes) helms a new American production of this exhilarating play in the first collaboration between THE NATIONAL THEATRE, JEAN DOUMANIAN PRODUCTIONS and BARROW STREET THEATRE. Hearts racing. Minds reeling. Knees buckling. Connie and Tristan have palpable chemistry or is it a side effect of a new super-antidepressant? They are volunteers in a clinical trial, but their sudden and illicit romance forces the supervising doctors to face off over the ethical consequences of their work. From LUCY PREBBLE, one of the UK s hottest new playwrights (The Telegraph), THE EFFECT takes on our pill-popping culture with humor and scintillating drama. Opening Night - Sunday, March 20 Currently Booking Until - Sunday, June 19
Praise for The Effect The Effect is an astonishingly rich and rewarding play, as intelligent as it is deeply felt - The Daily Telegraph, National Theatre, 2012 A profound and stirring play. The material is complex but always accessible, the drama serious and informative, yet deeply human, with the odd jolt of piercing humor. The Effect confirms Prebble as one of the most compelling voices of the British theatre. - The Evening Standard, National Theatre, 2012 Wow. This is brain-racing, pulse-quickening, pupil-dilating theatre that puts people front and center. Unmissable - What s On Stage, Sheffield Theatre, 2015 Guardian (London, Sheffield, Glasgow), Independent, The Times, Time Out (London, Sydney), Mail on Sunday, Sunday Express, Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Stage (Sheffield), The Herald Sun (Melbourne), TV BOMB (Glasgow) Smart and moving The Effect tickles our cerebellums, then tugs at our heart strings - Time Out, National Theatre, 2012 Prebble writes with impressive command of complex ideas, and her mix of personal and political is nearly perfect. The Effect might well be the best new play of the year - The Arts Desk, National Theatre, 2012 It s hard to be immune to The Effect: its play of ideas is entertaining, frequently funny and it is genuinely thought-provoking. By interval, your mind is buzzing. - The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Theatre Company, 2014 The Effect is a rare beast: a rich, challenging play that s as moving as it is intelligent. See. It. Now. - The Herald Sun, Melbourne Theatre Company, 2014 The Effect is a compelling and thought-provoking play which prompts audiences to reconsider their views and will stay with them long after they have left the theatre - Limelight Magazine, Sydney Theatre Company, 2014
Creative Team Playwright - Lucy Prebble Lucy Prebble is the author of the plays The Sugar Syndrome and ENRON, as well as the television series Secret Diary of a Call Girl. The Effect, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2012 in a co- production with Headlong, won the Critics Circle Award for Best New Play. She has also been the recipient of the prestigious George Devine Award and Theatre Awards UK award for Best New Play. Director - David Cromer David Cromer returns to the Barrow Street where he directed Tribes, Our Town, Orson's Shadow and Adding Machine (at the Minetta Lane). His production of Our Town has played in London, Boston, Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Chicago. At Lincoln Center he directed Nikolai and the Others and When the Rain Stops Falling. On Broadway he directed revivals of The House of Blue Leaves and Brighton Beach Memoirs. Credits in his native Chicago include Sweet Bird of Youth at the Goodman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Picnic, and The Price at Writers Theatre, and Cherrywood, Mojo, and Hot l Baltimore at Mary- Arrchie. In 2010 he was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. Set Designer - Marsha Ginsberg Recent theater: Nikolai and the Others (LCT w/ David Cromer), Romeo and Juliet (CSC), Somewhere Fun (Vineyard), Jackie (Women's Project), Red Dog Howls (NYTW), Smokefall (South Coast Rep), Habit (P.S.122/FIAF at Essex Street Market, Luminato Festival, MASS MoCA), Our Class (Wilma Theater), Er nicht als er (Meetfactory, Prague), Map of Virtue, (13P at NYTW), The Blue Flower (A.R.T./Elliot Norton Award), Telephone (Foundry Theatre), Kafeneion (Epidaurus Festival/ Athens). Recent opera: Powder Her Face (New York City Opera/BAM); Phaeton (Saarländisches Staatstheater); Methusalem- Projekt (Nationaltheater/Weimar); Ariadne auf Naxos (Opera National de Bordeaux); It Happens Like This (Charles Wuorinen/ Guggenheim Works in Progress, Tanglewood Music Center); Wolfgang Rihm's Proserpina (US premiere/spoleto Festival); Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Theater Basel); Don Pasquale (Nationaltheater/Weimar). Lighting Designer - Tyler Micoleau New York: Bug (OBIE Award, Lucille Lortel Award), Basic Training (Barrow Street), First Daughters Suite, The Fortress of Solitude, The Winter s Tale, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Tempest (Public Theater), The Invisible Hand (Lucille Lortel Award), Red Dog Howls (NYTW), Disgraced, The City of Conversation, Luce, We re Gonna Die (Lincoln Center), The Wayside Motor Inn (Signature Theatre), Iowa (Playwrights Horizons), The World of Extreme Happiness, By The Water, That Face (MTC), King Liz (Second Stage), Arlington, Middletown, God s Ear (Vineyard Theatre), The Aliens, 3C, The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick), Row After Row (Women s Project). Regional: Huntington Theater, Goodman Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, the Old Globe, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theater, Kansas City Rep, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Wilma Theater, Two River, Hangar Theatre, Long Wharf Theater and many more Costume Designer - Sarah Laux Recent design credits include: The Bachelors (Rattlestick), Thresh/Hold (Pilobolus Dance Theater), Come Back Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre Company), Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theater Company), Really, Really (MCC), Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb) Broadway Associate Design credits include: An Act of God, The Last Ship, If/Then, War Horse USA, The Performers, The Addams Family.
Creative Team Projection Designer - Maya Ciarrochi Maya Ciarrocchi s work has been exhibited in New York at: Anthology Film Archives, Chashama, The Chocolate Factory, Gibney Dance, The Invisible Dog Arts Center, Microscope Gallery, New York Live Arts, Sasha Wolf Gallery, among other institutions and at Artisphere, (VA), Hammer Museum (CA); Borderlines Film Festival (UK); Moving Pictures Festival (CAN). Residencies include the Baryshnikov Arts Center (NY), Kala Art Institute (CA), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space and Process Space (NY), and the Ucross Foundation (WY). She is the recipient of grants from the Franklin Furnace Fund and the Jerome and Puffin Foundations. She was awarded a Jeff and a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for her work as a projections designer and has collaborated with choreographers and directors such as Wally Cardona, Ping Chong, David Cromer, Merce Cunningham, Kristin Marting, Bebe Miller and Donna Uchizono among many others. Sound Designer - Daniel Kluger New York: Significant Other, The Common Pursuit (Roundabout), The Mystery of Love and Sex, Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center), Iowa, Your Mother s Copy of The Kama Sutra (Playwrights Horizons), I m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theater Company), The Nether, The Village Bike, Really Really (MCC), You Got Older (PAGE73), Somewhere Fun, The North Pool (Vineyard), Tribes, Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre). Regional: Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Pig Iron, The Arden Theatre Company, Two River Theatre Company, People s Light & Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, American Players Theatre. Barrow Street Theatre The Barrow Street Theatre is a 199 seat Off-Broadway venue located in the West Village, NYC owned and operated by Producers Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter. Past productions include: Duncan Macmillan s Every Brilliant Thing, Ike Holter s Hit The Wall, Nina Raine s Tribes, Fiasco Theater s production of Cymbeline, Craig Wright s Mistakes Were Made, Thornton Wilder s Our Town, Gone Missing by the Civilians, No Child by Nilaja Sun, Orson s Shadow by Austin Pendelton, BUG by Tracy Letts, TJ & DAVE, Eat the Taste by Greg Kotis, an oak tree by Tim Crouch, Hip Nos in association with Axis Theatre Dublin, Fortnight and Fortnight x 2.
Cast Dr. James - Kati Brazda Broadway: A Moon for the Misbegotten. Off-Broadway: Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre), Trying (Promenade Theater), Lovers, (The Actors Theatre Company), Bill W. & Dr. Bob (Soho Playhouse). Regional: Trying (Victory Gardens Theater. World Premiere, Joseph Jefferson Award nomination), Twelfth Night (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Fest.), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Dallas Theater Center), Enemies, A Love Story (Wilma Theatre), Bluish (AllianceTheater), A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing (Nebraska Shakespeare Fest), The Story, The Death of Bessie Smith and Finding the Sun (Goodman Theater), Top Girls and The Secret Rapture (Remy Bumppo Theater, After Dark Award). She is the recipient of the Sarah Siddons Chicago's Leading Lady Award. Connie - Susannah Flood Off-Broadway: Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre), Scenes from a Marriage (New York Theatre Workshop), Love and Information (New York Theatre Workshop), Mr. Burns (Playwrights Horizons), The Sonic Life of the Giant Tortoise (The Play Company), As You Like It (The Public/NYSF), Okay (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional: World Premiere of A Civil War Christmas (Long Wharf,) Travesties (McCarter,) A Midsummer Night s Dream (Hartford Stage,) Hamlet, To Kill a Mockingbird (Oregon Shakespeare,) Our Town (2007 IRNE nomination, Best Actress,) Memory House (Trinity Rep). Workshops: A Free Man of Color (Lincoln Center,) The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (NYTW) Tristan - Carter Hudson Off-Broadway: The Substance of Fire (Second Stage Theatre), Abyss (The Play Company), WYOMING (Lesser America), The Unbuilt (NYSF). Regional: Portland Stage, Mountain Playhouse. Toby - Steve Key National Tour: August: Osage County. Off-Broadway: Blue Surge (Public Theater). Chicago Theater: Goodman Theatre (Feathers and Teeth,Vigils, Zoo Story and Blue Surge), A Red Orchid Theatre, American Blues Theater (ensemble member), Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Shattered Globe Theatre (former Artistic Director) and Victory Gardens Theater. He has received six Jeff Awards and four additional nominations for Principal Actor, Supporting Actor and Ensemble. Regional & International Theater: Ahmanson Theatre, Kennedy Center, Town Hall (Galway Ireland). Film credits: 1,000 Acres, At Any Price, Blackmail, Public Enemies, Salvaging and Three Days. He has appeared on television in Boss, Chicago Code, Chicago Fire, Family Practice, Law & Order: SVU and The Mob Doctor.
Production Support To celebrate the National Theatre s inaugural production Off-Broadway, we are thrilled to offer a small group of AANT supporters the very special opportunity to gain insider access to the production and its cast and creative team, arranged seamlessly for you by the AANT team. As well as offering benefits for you and a group of friends to enjoy, your support will enable the National Theatre to continue producing world-class productions for audiences both on and off Broadway, at its London home, on international tours, and in cinemas around the globe through NT Live. For a donation of $10,000, we would be delighted to offer you benefits including: ($1,930 is non tax deductible) Ten top price tickets for The Effect - you and your guests given the very best seats in the house for the performance of your choice A complimentary pre or post-show drinks reception for ten guests, arranged for you by the AANT team at a venue nearby * The opportunity to go backstage to meet the cast with your guests after the performance AANT Premiere Circle membership for one year, either for yourself, if not currently a member at this level or above, or for nominated guest/s (individual or couple) Accreditation as a Production Supporter in the Playbill for The Effect *Complimentary sparkling, red and white wine, beers and soft drinks provided for your group For a donation of $20,000, we would be delighted to offer all of the benefits listed above, plus: ($2,260 is non tax deductible) The opportunity to invite director David Cromer to your pre-show drinks reception, or to invite the cast to join your post-show drinks reception * Signed scripts for you and your guests on the evening AANT Olivier Circle membership for one year, for either yourself, if not currently a member at this level or above, or nominated guest/s (individual or couple) *Subject to availability of cast and creative team For a donation of $30,000, we would be delighted to offer all of the benefits listed above, plus: ($2,410 is non tax deductible) The opportunity to host a reception or dinner in your home, or chosen venue, with director David Cromer and the cast invited to join you * Two invitations to the opening night performance and post-show party on March 16 th Signed production posters for you and your guests AANT major donor privileges for one year, for either yourself, if not currently a member at this level, or nominated guest/s (individual or couple) *Subject to availability of cast and creative team; can be scheduled either post-show during the run of the production, or on a Monday evening when no performances are scheduled; catering costs not included.
Contact To make a gift to support The Effect, or for more information, please contact: Kirsten Hughes, Head of Development American Associates of the National Theatre 214 West 29 th Street, Suite 701 New York, NY 10001 (212) 489-4783 kirsten@aarnt.org Thank you for your support.