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Sonia Friedman Productions has signed an option to produce Stephen Sachs’ play Bakersfield Mist, currently playing at Los Angeles Fountain through December 18, on the West End in London with plans to bring it to New York for a subsequent Off Broadway or Broadway run.
The cast and director have not been set. Sachs helms the Los Angeles production, which stars Jenny O’Hara and Nick Ulett.
Inspired by a true story, Bakersfield Mist imagines a meeting between foul-mouthed, unemployed, trailer park-dwelling Maude Gutman, who believes the painting she bought in a thrift store for $3 is really an undiscovered masterpiece worth millions, and stuffy New York art expert Lionel Percy who arrives to evaluate the work. The comedy/drama is a fiery and often hilarious debate over class, truth, value, and the meaning of art.
