Foster, Lang, Myers, Pierce, Taylor, et al. to Guest Star in an oak tree

Kathleen Chalfant, Mark Conseulos, Alix Elias, Hunter Foster, Stephen Lang, Mike Myers, David Hyde Pierce, David Rasche, Joey Slotnick, and Lili Taylor will be among the guest stars in Tim Crouch’s two-actor play an oak tree at the Barrow Street Theatre between December 8 and December 22.

In this unusual 65-minute piece, Crouch plays a provincial stage hypnotist who killed a young woman in a car accident. Each night, he asks for a “volunteer” from the audience; this role will be performed by a different person, including the aforementioned actors, at each show. The volunteer, whether male or female, will turn out to be the father of the dead girl. The actors will not have seen the script prior to the show; instead, they will receive all the information necessary via an ear piece (through which Crouch will feed them their lines), a clipboard with the script, or another method.

The show debuted at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland in August 2005; it has since toured England, Latvia, Lithuania, Israel, Ireland, Russia, Canada, and other countries. Crouch was last seen on stage in New York in My Arm, which played at 59E59 in 2004 and at The Public Theater earlier this year.