Two Weeks Run at The Vineyard Playhouse
The Vineyard Playhouse is proud to announce that their highly acclaimed 2007 summer season will be extended through the month of September with a limited run of Robert Brustein’s new play THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. The show enjoyed a successful run at the C. Walsh Theater at Suffolk University in Boston and received acclaim from critics including a fantastic review in the Boston Globe. The show opened last night and runs through September 29th.
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL received a reading at The Vineyard Playhouse last summer as part of the Monday Night Special series. MJ Bruder Munafo, Producer and Artistic Director of the Vineyard Playhouse, is “thrilled to welcome THE ENGLISH CHANNEL back to the Playhouse as a fully staged production.”
The year is 1593. The plague has closed the Elizabethan playhouses and William Shakespeare is take refuge in the Mermaid Tavern, writing sonnets. The playwright is tangled up in sexual, artistic, and political intrigue with other young Elizabethan men and women - poet and rival Christopher Marlowe, Emilia, the mysterious Dark Lady, and Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of Southampton. THE ENGLISH CHANNEL is Robert Brustein's comic and provocative imagining of Shakespeare's coming of age as a playwright.
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL is directed by Wesley Savick. The cast includes Sean Dugan as Christopher Marlowe, Gabriel Field as William Shakespeare, Merritt Janson as Emilia Lanier, and Alex Pollock as Southhampton. The production will feature set design by Richard Chambers, costume design by Seth Bodie, and lighting design by John Malinowski.
Theater luminary Robert Brustein is an honorary board member at the Vineyard Playhouse where recent productions of his work include last year’s successful production of SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK. Mr. Brustein is joining Suffolk's faculty as Distinguished Scholar in Residence. He is the founding director of both the Yale Repertory and American Repertory Theatres, where he supervised over 200 productions. His plays include NOBODY DIES ON FRIDAY, DEMONS, and adaptations of such classic works as SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR, THE WILD DUCK, and THE MASTER BUILDER.

Tickets for the world premiere of THE ENGLISH CHANNEL are only $30. Student and Senior tickets are offered at $25 and rush tickets are available ten minutes prior to curtain. Don’t miss this special production at a very special price! Call the box office today at 508.696.6300.
Shows run Wednesdays through Saturdays. Show times are September 19th and 20th at 7pm, and September 22nd at 8pm, as well as September 26th and 27th at 7pm, and September 28th, & 29th at 8pm. There will be no show on September 21st in observance of Yom Kippur.