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PLAYS EXAMINE RISK, REWARD, FRIENDSHIP AND
DISASTER
SUITS.
NEW YORK – American-born playwright T.S. Eliot said it best: “Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far one can go.”
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Suits and Ties and Suits and Capes
Previews
Thursday July 15th at PM. Friday, July 16th at 8PM
Saturday, July 17th at 3PM
Sunday, July 18th at 5PM
Monday, July
19th at 7PM
Opening
Friday July 23rd at 8PM
Saturday, July 24th at 2PM
Sunday, July 25th at 5PM
Thursday, July 29th at 7PM
Friday, July 30th at 8PM
Saturday, July 31st at 3PM
Sunday, August 1st at 5PM.
212-352-3101 or online through theatremania.com
Tickets: $18 at TheaterMania.com or
Call 212-352-3101
Venue: The Turtle's Shell Theater (in the Times Square Arts Center)
300 W. 43 rd Street, New York, NY 10036
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Suits and Ties/Suits and Capes,
two one-act plays at The Shell Theater, push that theory to its outermost limits.
Both plays were written by playwright Jonathan Brady and have a number of similarities.
Suits and Ties
follows a group of friends struggling to hold on to their small company as it teeters on the brink of failure. As the pressure mounts, each person is forced to choose between personal loyalties and dif ferent ideas about what it takes to succeed in the world of business.
Suits and Capes is a comedy about two young men who
try to become superheroes and save the world from “The SoHo Strangler”. They lack only one thing: super powers. Their circumstances teach them about risk, reward, triumph, failure and how to get your cape to flow just right.
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Brady says he wrote both plays in order to investigate a few key questions. How do we make sense of risky
decisions? What are the ef fects of stress on friendship? How important is it to be original?
“I wanted to explore similar themes in dif ferent contexts, so that the audience could relate to them in dif ferent
ways,” says Brady. “Very few audience members will have had experience as a superhero, but most have
worked in an of fice setting at some point and can identify with the less spectacular evils of that particular
environment.”
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Turtle Shell Productions Artistic Director John Cooper is directing the show, which is Turtle Shell
Productions 40th stage presentation since they began back in 2002.
When asked why he chose to do both of
Brady’s works he said, “I was drawn to direct Suits and Ties/Suits and Capes because of the entertaining,
smart writing and approach taken by Jonathan Brady in expressing with humor and incisive character
depictions the universal theme of the individual daring to step outside the box in achieving unique, unexplored
heights of accomplishment.”
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Suits and Ties:
Justin Bennett (Napoleon), Larry Bull (Frank),
Duke Lafoon (Jay), Frederick J. Mayer (Inspector), M. Scott Mclean (Tom) and David Pegram (Charles).
Suits and Capes:
Christine Bullen (Reporter/Nurse/Victim 2) Samantha Cole (Kate), Andre Herzegovitch
(SoHo Strangler), Zac Hoogendyk (Kenneth) and Ryan Michael Jones (Ray).
Production:
Maegen Sacco (Stage Manager), Victoria Depew (Scenic Designer),
Stephen Sakowski (Lighting Designer), Erica Evans (Costume Designer), Rocco D’Santi (Projection
Designer), Josh Millican (Sound Designer), Zach T. Wright (Carpenter),
(Production Assistants) Eli Nassau
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