CHEZ RIKERS: AN URBAN FABLE to get developmental reading 6/6

6/1/2017 3:50pm


Theater for the New City and Executive Director Crystal Field will present a public developmental reading of CHEZ RIKERS: AN URBAN FABLE, a new play by Charles Leipart on Tues June 6 at 7:00 PM at Theater for the New City (155 First Ave). Directed by Richard Sterne, the performance will feature Penny Fuller and Tony Roberts. A social political comedy. A prison cell on Rikers Island.  Meg and Sam Massey, a well-to-do couple in their sixties, find themselves and their neighbors held in protective custody as Manhattan streets rage with fire bombs and police sirens. Meg and Sam are certain they will be placed in a limousine and returned to their Park Avenue apartment—as soon as the squatters are removed. In the meantime, they experience a decidedly unsentimental education in class distinctions and urban politics. But who gets the fine crystal, china, and the Van Goghs? Completing the cast will be Sen Enver, Fenton Li, Rafa Nadal & Gloria Sauve. This developmental reading is free and open to the public and is part of the New City, New Blood reading series. Press contact: Patrick Reihler/Keith Sherman & Associates (212/764-7900)...