Prayer For My Enemy at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons present the New York premiere of Prayer For My Enemy, a new play by two-time Tony Award nominee (Prelude to a Kiss, The Light in the Piazza), Pulitzer Prize finalist (Prelude to a Kiss) and two-time Obie Award winner (Saved or Destroyed, Small Tragedy) Craig Lucas.

Directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific), Prayer For My Enemy will open at Playwrights Horizons' Main Stage on 9 Dec 2008, following previews from 14 Nov and running through to 21 Dec 2008.

The third production of the theater company's 2008/2009 Season, Prayer For My Enemy is the first of two plays by Craig Lucas that will receive their New York premiere this season. His play The Singing Forest will have its premiere at The Public in the spring.

The cast features Tony Award winner Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza), Tony Award winner Michele Pawk (Hollywood Arms), Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening), Cassie Beck, Zachary Booth and Skipp Sudduth.

The Playwrights Horizons production of Prayer For My Enemy reunites three key team members behind the Tony Award-winning production 'The Light in the Piazza' (2005), which featured a book by Craig Lucas, was directed by Bartlett Sher and starred Victoria Clark. It will also feature costume design by Piazza's Tony-winning costume designer, Catherine Zuber.

In Prayer For My Enemy, a hell of a night for the Noones finds father 'Austin' (Skipp Sudduth) watching his nature shows and trying to keep from falling off the wagon, mother 'Karen' (Michele Pawk) keeping an eye on 'Austin,' son 'Billy' (Jonathan Groff) just back from Iraq, and pregnant daughter 'Marianne' (Cassie Beck) upset about the state of her marriage to 'Tad' (Zachary Booth), 'Billy's' childhood friend who may still harbor a crush on him. As an enigmatic outsider, 'Dolores' (Victoria Clark), relates a tale of taking responsibility for her ailing mother, an American family's long-held secrets are dragged to the fore in what may be its final reckoning.

Prayer For My Enemy, is a paean to our age, a keenly-layered drama about the preciousness of life and the grace to share common ground - even with those we love the least.

The production will feature scenic design by John McDermott, costume design by Catherine Zuber, lighting design by Stephen Strawbridge and sound design by Scott Lehrer.

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