Jonson's rarely produced 1610 masterpiece is one of the funniest plays ever written in English. Director Edelstein, who specializes in Shakespeare and the plays of the English Renaissance, will direct a cast of leading character actors in this outrageous piece. A child dies. The nanny, tormented with guilt, is hounded by the press, her ex-boyfriend and the child's father. Pirandello's breathtaking play, a kind of philosophical detective piece, is part murder mystery, part literary puzzle, and part high melodrama.
Hurricane is a tempest of word and a storm of image.
Performances begin October 6 and continue through November 14, with a press opening scheduled for October 17. Readings, roundtable forums and presentations of music and visual arts will excite audiences throughout the season. All in all, this season will present to New York audiences an incredibly rich and diverse sense of what 'classic' can mean in the American theater.