Harry Groener and Anthony Chisholm to Star in Long Wharf Theatre’s The Train Driver

Long Wharf Theatre has announced that Tony Award nominees Harry Groener and Anthony Chisholm will star in the U.S. premiere of Athol Fugard’s The Train Driver; to run October 27-November 21. The production will be directed by Gordon Edelstein.

Based on a true story, Fugard’s newest play mines the depths and complications of the human heart. Roelf Visagie (Groener) wanders the graveyards of Port Elizabeth, searching among the unnamed ones for the final, nondescript resting place of a young woman he unintentionally killed. When Roelf looks for answers, he encounters a mysterious gravedigger named Simon (Chisholm) who guides him towards tenuous and troubled understanding.

As previously reported, Long Wharf’s season will also feature Jeffrey Hatcher’s Ella, The Musical, starring Tina Fabrique as Ella Fitzgerald; Tony Award winner Judith Ivey in a revival of Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine, a production of Simon Gray’s The Old Masters; a production of John Patrick Shanley’s Italian American Reconciliation; and the world premiere of Agnes Under the Big Top by Aditi Brennan Kapil.

For more information, visit www.longwharf.org.