McReele
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 24, 2005
Closed May 1, 2005
Opened Feb 24, 2005
Closed May 1, 2005
Playing at
Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
Directions & Map
Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Anthony Mackie stars in the world premiere of Stephen Belber's McReele, staged by Tony Award© nominated director Doug Hughes, and presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company. The cast includes Anthony Mackie, Michael O'Keefe, Jodi Long, Portia, and Henry Strozier.
This provocative new drama pits social responsibility against personal redemption. When Delaware journalist Rick Dayne meets death row inmate Darius McReele, the articles Rick writes eventually lead to Darius's exoneration from an 18 year old murder conviction. Darius's sympathetic past and magnetic personality make him a darling of the lecture circuit, leading to national attention and political viability. With his past and future in the balance, Darius walks the line, as Rick seeks to determine which way he'll ultimately fall.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
111 W 46th St
New York, NY 10036
111 W 46th St
New York, NY 10036
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In McReele, Stephen Belber asks the age-old question: Does the end justify the means? He doesn't answer it, which is an author's prerogative. (Isn't this the prerogative exercised by most playwrights when raising the traditionally sticky issue?) Instead, Belber wryly contrives his situations so that patrons have to figure out the dilemma for themselves. He even builds this challenge into the play's McDonald's-ish title, which he might just as well have spelled McReal. That spelling would have even further emphasized the ambiguous nature of the eponymous character's motives. It's likely that Belber -- the author of last year's Match, which also left a crucial question somewhat up in the air[...]