About This Show
New Repertory Theatre presents the Boston area premiere of Quills, written by Doug Wright, directed by Rick Lombardo, and starring Austin Pendleton.
Doug Wright, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for his play I Am My Own wife, has earned a reputation for dramatizing subversive, extravagant characters from history. Writing with dark humor, Wright examines the nature and the price of freedom through the final days of one of France’s most infamous and scandalous figures. Imprisoned in France’s Charenton Asylum at the turn of the 18th century is the Marquis de Sade. In defiance of the increasingly punitive censorship that deprives him of quill, ink, and even clothes, he writes with anything available to him in his cell: an obsession that swings between madness and a heroic refusal to be silenced.
Last seen as Vladimir in New Rep’s award winning production of Waiting for Godot, stage and screen star Austin Pendleton returns to play Sade, who embraces freedom of expression while affirming to us that all freedoms have a price.
Student, senior, and group discounts available Matinees and evening performances.
This play contains sexually explicit situations, language, and full nudity.
