Gurney, Hay, Murphy Set for Keen Company’s 2007-2008 Season

The award-winning Keen Company will present a 25th anniversary production of A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room along with world premieres by David Hay and Michael Roland Murphy as part of its 2007-2008 season, to take place at the Clurman Theater on Theatre Row.

Jonathan Silverstein will direct The Dining Room, September 7-October 14. In this well-known play, 20th-century family life explodes across the stage in a series of scenes dissecting birthday parties, holidays, breakfasts, affairs, and every imaginable form of American familial relations.

Next up is Hay’s The Maddening Truth, January 15-February 17, to be helmed by Keen Company’s artistic director, Carl Forsman. The work concerns Ernest Hemingway’s third wife, the renowned journalist Martha Gellhorn, and her attempt to write a luminous novel.

The season will conclude with Murphy’s The Conscientious Objector, February 26-April 20, also to be directed by Forsman. The play focuses on Dr. Martin Luther King’s stance against the Vietnam war, and draws upon the historical record, including the FBI’s relentless surveillance of King and the White House’s infamous secret telephone recordings.

For more information, visit www.keencompany.org.