The Madras House
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Feb 15, 2007
Closed Mar 25, 2007
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Drama Desk and Obie Award-wining Mint Theater Company presents a rare New York revival of Harley Granville Barker's 1909 The Madras House. Gus Kaikkonen directs a cast that includes Roberta Maxwell, George Morfogen, Laurie Kennedy, and Jonathan Hogan.
Phillip Madras is the heir to a leading London fashion emporium established by his father Constantine, a legendary designer who has abandoned his family and the evils of the West, converted to Mohammedism, and established a polygamous household in Iraq. Constantine's return to England to sell the family business precipitates a series of loosely connected scenes that serve as "a merciless critique of that ragbag of attitudes we now call 'family values.'"
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311 W 43rd St
New York, NY 10036
The Mint's mission is to bring new vitality to neglected plays.
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When Harley Granville Barker was writing
The Madras House which is getting a suave, amusing treatment at the Mint Theater under Gus Kaikkonen's direction, two visionary concerns buzzed around his fertile brain. A pre-feminist thinker when the suffragette movement was getting underway, he was deliberating the equality of men and women. Simultaneously, he was pondering the best way a privileged man or liberated woman can make meaningful contributions to an unjust society. He wove these matters into this four-act work that, in many ways, feels more like four separate one-act plays under one title.
"It's a little hard to follow at times," a character says of one of the plot's predicaments,[...]