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This September 20–30, The Cherry Arts presents its second company production of the 2018–19 season. George Kaplan, by Frédéric Sonntag, is one of the most-produced plays to emerge from Europe in the last decade, and the Cherry is thrilled to be producing the play for the first time in English, in a translation by Artistic Director Sam Buggeln.
"George Kaplan" is the fictional spy in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and George Kaplan is at once an anarchic comedy, a spy thriller, and a dizzying exploration into the relationship between reality and fiction. Deeply unlike any play produced in the area in recent memory, George Kaplan is a hall-of-mirrors journey through conspiracy theories, the quality of coffee, and the nature of identity itself.
George Kaplan opens on Friday September 21st, after a preview performance on Thursday September 20th, and closes Sunday, September 30th. Evening performances (Thursdays through Saturdays) are at 7:30pm, and Sunday matinees are at 3:00pm.
George Kaplan features Cherry Arts company members Elizabeth Mozer*, Joshua Sedelmeyer, Erica Steinhagen*, Dean Robinson*, and Jacob Garrett White*. The environment is designed by Daniel Zimmerman, lighting is by ED Intemann, and projection design is by Mike Cook.
Playwright Frédéric Sonntag will travel to Ithaca from his home in Paris to join the Cherry Arts for the first weekend of performances. After the matinée performance on Sunday, September 23, Sonntag will participate in a "Cherry Commons" talkback moderated by Cherry Arts company member Saviana Stanescu. On Monday, September 24 at 5:00pm, he will participate in a panel discussion about the play, its translations, and its production history at the inaugural event in the "World Theater Voices" series sponsored by the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.
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