THE DARK OUTSIDE

PRESENTS

WORLD PREMIERE OF
THE DARK OUTSIDE
BY BERNARD KOPS

In “The Dark Outside” by Bernard Kops, a birthday celebration for a one-armed East London tailor, who is in a life crisis, brings home his three grown children.  All are facing traumatic changes.  It falls to his wife–the family matriarch and unfailing strength–to hold the clan together.  Songs and poetic outbursts are inspired because plain speech is insufficient for the family’s powerful feelings.  This piece is the latest work for the stage by one of England’s greatest contemporary playwrights and is thematically similar to his most recent works of poetry.  Theater for the New City (TNC), 155 First Ave., will present its world premiere November 6 to 28, starring Austin Pendleton as the tailor and New York actress Katharine Cullison, for whom the part was written, as his wife.  Jack Serio directs.

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