Steppenwolf Theatre Company Presents World Premiere of Mary Page Marlowe
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The world premiere of Tracy Letts' play Mary Page Marlowe starts its run at Steppenwolf Theatre tonight.
Mary Page Marlowe has, by all accounts, led an ordinary life. She is an accountant in Ohio, and she faces all of the decisions, big and small, that the rest of us do. However, as these moments, pivotal and mundane, accumulate, we begin to see the complexity in individuals, and Mary proves, surprisingly, to be no less complex than each of us as she struggles to figure out who she really is and what she really wants.
Steppenwolf's artistic director Anna D. Shapiro, Letts' longtime collaborator, directs. The cast features seven different actors as Mary Page Marlowe over the span of her lifetime. Sharing the title role are Blair Brown, Carrie Coon, Laura T. Fisher, Caroline Heffernan, Annie Munch, Rebecca Spence, and Benicio Calderone, Charlotte Freund, and Sebastian White, the last three of whom play Mary as an infant. Also featured in the cast are Ian Barford as Ray, Alan Wilder as Andy, Stephen Cefalu Jr. as Ed Marlowe, Amanda Drinkall as Roberta Marlowe, Jack Edwards as Louis Gilbert, Kirsten Fitzgerald as Shrink, Tess Frazer as Lorna, Keith Gallagher as Ben, Sandra Marquez as Nurse, Ariana Venturi as Connie, Madeline Weinstein as Wendy, and Gary Wilmes as Dan.
"For me, this play does what Steppenwolf Theatre does best: finding the spectacular in the mundane and turning the every-day into the most-important-day, and all the while reflecting our common humanity," says Shapiro.
The creative team includes Todd Rosenthal (set design), Linda Roethke (costume design), Marcus Doshi (lighting design), Richard Woodbury (sound design), Diana Lawrence (original music), Sven Ortel (projection design), and Malcolm Ewen (stage manager).
Performances will run through May 29.
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