Painting Churches
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 6, 2012
Closed Apr 7, 2012
Opened Mar 6, 2012
Closed Apr 7, 2012
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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Churches being painted are Gardner and Fanny Church, remnants of a once flourishing tribe of Boston blue bloods. Gardner, an eminent poet, has started a graceful descent into senility so his wife Fanny is packing up their Beacon Hill townhouse for a permanent move to their cottage on Cape Cod. Their daughter Mags, an artist who lives and works in New York City, is desperate to paint their portrait before they fade from view, but will they hold still? Hilarity and anguish prevail during a week of packing, posing and remembering.
The first New York revival of Pulitzer- finalist Painting Churches, from Keen Company, the Drama Desk and OBIE award- winning company that produced the recently acclaimed hits Lemon Sky, Benefactors, and Alphabetical Order. Starring KATE TURNBULL, Broadway veteran JOHN CUNNINGHAM, and Tony Award Nominee KATHLEEN CHALFANT.
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It's easy to assume the better written a play, the less likely it can be weakened in production. That proves not to be the case with Tina Howe's exquisite, delicate and autobiographically-inspired
Painting Churches, now being given a surprisingly undelicate revival by the Keen Company at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre.
The Howe stand-in is Mags (Kate Turnbull), a painter who returns to her beautiful Boston home (nicely designed by Beowulf Boritt) after a lengthy absence to prepare a portrait of her aging father Gardner Church (John Cunningham), a world-famous poet, and mother Fanny (Kathleen Chalfant) in her neo-Impressionistic style marked by brilliant effects of light.
She wants t[...]