At 7:30 on Monday evening, February 8, at THE PLAYERS, a club founded by Edwin
Booth at 16 Gramercy Park South, the GUILD co-hosted a vibrant staged reading of a
new script that explores the eerie parallels between our own 9/ll and a Gunpowder
Plot in 1605 to blow up the twin towers of Parliament. This play is the latest title
from a dramatist who has given us such works as Nobody Dies on Friday and The
English Channel. A renowned producer, director, and critic in addition to his many
distinctions as a teacher and playwright, Robert Brustein founded both the Yale
Repertory Theatre in New Haven and the American Repertory Theater at Harvard.
Mr. Brustein has reviewed drama for Harper's, New Republic, and other periodicals. He has seventeen books to his credit, and the most recent, The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare, has been very enthusiastically received.
Mortal Terror was directed by Daniela Varon, who is admired for productions at
Shakespeare & Company and for three years of Conversations with Shakespeare
at Symphony Space. The gifted actors who enacted parts for
this stellar presentation were Bill Camp, Denise Cormier, Michael Cumpsty, Mark Linn-Baker, Christianna Nelson, Matthew Rauch, Steven Skybell, John Douglas Thompson, and James Zidar.
Admission to this event was $20 for members of either the SHAKESPEARE GUILD or
the ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION and $25 for non-members. Visit our Membership
page for types of affiliation with the GUILD. Once there you will find a link to a page that will enable you to enroll as a constituent, book for programs, or do both.
