A Delicate Balance
Theatre
When: Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007, 2 p.m.
Where: Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura, CA
Cost: $39 - $49
Age limit: Not available
Categories: Theater
Description: Rubicon Theatre Company will conclude its 2006-07 “Balancing Acts” season with a modern classic by America’s greatest living playwright: Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a modern-day, upper-class New England family takes an unflinching look at the fragility of friendship in the face of fear.
Susan Clark, Bonnie Franklin and Granville van Dusen star in Rubicon’s production, supported by Amanda McBroom, Robin Gammell and Stephanie McNamara. A Delicate Balance begins previews Sept. 20, opens Sept. 22 and runs through Oct. 14. Rubicon Artistic Director and co-Founder James O’Neil directs the work, which The New York Times called “a drawing-room horror story.”
The play takes place over the course of a weekend at the beautiful home of Agnes and Tobias, a Connecticut couple on the cusp of old age. Tobias has withdrawn emotionally over the years, but plenty of domestic drama is provided by their oft-divorced daughter Julia, who has returned home in the wake of a fourth failed marriage, and Agnes’ acerbic, alcoholic sister Claire.
Their heavy drinking and barbed banter are interrupted when Agnes and Tobias’ best friends Edna and Harry pay an unexpected call. Utterly terrified but unable to pinpoint the source of their fear, they have come to ask their friends for a startling favor. Their presence provokes a battle of wills within the family, pitting the desire to help others against the need for self-protection.
A Delicate Balance premiered on Broadway in 1966, with a cast headed by Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Seven years later, it was adapted into a film starring Katharine Hepburn and Paul Scofield. A 1996 Broadway production starring George Grizzard, Rosemary Harris and Eliane Stritch won the Tony® Award for Best Revival of a Play.
Phone: 805-667-2900
Event posted Sept. 14, 2007
Last updated Oct. 4, 2007
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