The Bells
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 22, 2005
Closed Apr 10, 2005
Opened Mar 22, 2005
Closed Apr 10, 2005
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McCarter Theatre Center presents the world premiere production of The Bells, by Theresa Rebeck, directed by artistic director Emily Mann. This new drama, set in the waning years of the Alaskan Gold Rush, tracks the intertwined fates of a gregarious innkeeper, Mathias, his rebellious daughter, Annette, and the misfits of a boomtown gone bust. Hard luck and hunger have brought them together, but when a stranger begins asking questions about the mysterious disappearance of a Chinese prospector, Xiufei, he soon learns that it's every man for himself in this vast white wilderness, where nothing is quite what it seems, and ghost stories are never taken lightly.
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If you peruse the program before The Bells begins and read Theresa Rebeck's bio, you'll notice it mentions that the playwright received a PhD in Victorian melodrama. Hmm, you may think, why this reference to a somewhat recherché past accomplishment?
If you then start riffling through the rest of the program for prefatory material on the work that's about to entertain you, you'll find the following quote from the dramatist: "There's a wide misunderstanding that, during the 19th century, the form of melodrama presented audiences with depleted or second-rate story telling. In fact, melodrama's emphasis on muscular plots, spectacle, and the extremities of human experience presented a ki[...]