• Highly anticipated world premiere at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015
• London production directed by Ian Rickson, with Wallace Shawn and Josh Hamilton
• Four star review in The Guardian
• Wallace Shawn is an accomplished playwright and well-known screen actor
- Four of Shawn’s plays – The Designated Mourner, Marie and Bruce, My Dinner with Andre, and The Fever – were adapted into film. The film version of The Designated Mourner was directed by famed writer and director David Hare.
- The film My Dinner with Andre went on to become a cinematic standard and highly revered material in the study of film.
- Shawn translated and adapted a widely acclaimed version of the theatrical classic The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht.
- His most recent work was a translation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic A Master Builder, which was also adapted for film by Jonathan Demme.
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