PLEASE NOTE: The Saturday, June 3 performance will begin at 8:00 PM. All other performances are at 7:30 PM.
THE COWARD
by Nick Jones
Directed by Amos Dreisbach
Featuring Ben Park, Sean Childress, Eliot Zellers, Megan Adair, Tony Smith, Lee Stein, Jacob Cooper, and JP Lebangood.
Performances May 19-21, 25-26, and June 1-4 (all at 7:30 PM)
Advanced Tickets $18 ($16 for Seniors, $15 for Students)
All Tickets at the Door are $20.
Nominee! Four 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Play
A period comedy set in 18th century England. A cowardly young gentleman named Lucidus initiates a pistol duel then finds that he can’t go through with it. He hires a common criminal to fight in his place, only to have the scoundrel make a bloody mess of things. As duel follows duel with many shots fired, this coward finds his reputation growing beyond his wildest expectations.
“A perfectly structured comedy…hilarious and sly and witty.” - Village Voice
The Coward was first presented Off Broadway by Lincoln Center/LCT3 at the Duke Theatre in New York City on November 22, 2010. It was directed by Sam Gold.
Playwright Nick Jones is originally from Anchorage, Alaska. His plays include: The Coward (Lincoln Center/LCT3; 4 Lortel Nominations) Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (Ars Nova, The Public), The Wundelsteipen (the Flea) The Sporting Life (Studio 42), and The Nosemaker’s Apprentice (with Rachel Shukert). His puppet horror musical Homunculus is in development with Center Theater Group (music by Dave Malloy, directed by Sam Gold) and Grizzly Adams, a rock musical performed by bears, with the Huntington (music by Corn Mo, directed by Peter Dubois). He also holds commissions from the Old Globe, Manhattan Theater Club, and Lincoln Center. The Coward is being developed into a film with Big Beach Films/American Work. He is currently a staff writer on Orange is the New Black, premiering this summer on Netflix. Schooling: Bard College, Juilliard, Chugach Elementary.