The Atheist
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Opened Oct 12, 2008
Closed Jan 4, 2009
Opened Oct 12, 2008
Closed Jan 4, 2009
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In The Atheist, Campbell Scott plays 'Augustine Early,' a crooked reporter who will do anything to get his next front-page story. When Augustine turns a prominent local politician's tawdry predilections into front page news, the scandal threatens to undo the one person Augustine thought was immune - himself. The Atheist is a searing and hilarious play about catching the perfect front-page headline, whatever the cost.
This one-man show returns to Culture Project after a sold-out special one-night-only engagement in May. It also had a critically acclaimed run at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company last year and just completed an equally acclaimed run as part of the 2008 Williamstown Theatre Festival.
The Culture Project hosts a special talk-back conversation in conjunction with the Irish Arts Center/New York on Thursday, November 20, 2008, following the 8:00 p.m. performance of The Atheist. The discussion, titled "An Irish American and his American Plays," welcome The Atheist's playwright Ronan Noone and star Campbell Scott, in a conversation about Noone's work, moderated by Aidan Connolly, Executive Director of the Irish Arts Center.
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If you see a better performance on a stage in New York City this year, it will have to surpass the extraordinary work by Campbell Scott in the one-person play The Atheist, a co-production of the Culture Project and Circle in the Square, now at the Barrow Street Theatre. His performance is so astounding that even if you couldn't hear the bright and brittle words written by talented playwright Ronan Noone, and all you had to go by was the actor's face, you'd still know exactly what emotions were cascading down from the stage to the audience.
Scott plays Augustine Early, the most amoral man you are likely to meet this side of a Neil LaBute play. He comes by his amorality by way of an epiphan[...]