Life Sentences
9th November 1993
Second Stage Theatre, NY
Life Sentences was first produced at the Second Stage Theatre, New York City (Carole Rothman, artistic director and Suzanne Schwartz-Davidson, producing director) on 9th November 1993.
Synopsis
Burke, a literature professor at a small upstate New York college, has invited a Polish emigré novelist to give a lecture, as well as spend the night at the house he shares with his girlfriend Mia, who is some twenty years younger than Burke. The presence of this attractive foreigner exposes Burke’s and Mia’s hopes, dreams, delusions and regrets. Ironic and very funny, Life Sentences is a tale about loneliness and the hopeless struggle to know where we belong.
Life Sentences
| Written by | Richard Nelson |
Creative Team
| Director | John Caird |
| Set Designer | Thomas Lynch |
| Costume Designer | Ann Roth |
| Lighting Designer | Richard Nelson |
| Sound Designer | Mark Bennett |
| Hair and Makeup | Antonio Soddu |
| Associate Producer | Carol Fishman |
| Production Stage Manager | Marjorie Horne |
| Stage Manager | Mark Cole |
| Press Representative | Richard Kornberg |
| Casting by | Meg Simon (CSA) |
| Artistic Director | Carole Rothman |
| Producing Director | Suzanne Schwartz Davidson |
Cast
| Burke | Edward Herrmann |
| Mia | Michelle Joyner |