The Beckett Theatre
Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
This season we're loaded with comedies - with everything that's going on in the world, we figure we could all use a good laugh. In October, we bring you Vaclav Havel's brilliant satire of bureaucracy gone mad, in his seminal 1965 work, The Memorandum. This will be the first major Off-Broadway revival of this extraordinary work since its original Obie winning production in 1968 at the Public Theatre, and we're very proud to be presenting it. We follow that up in March with a play that has been near and dear to our hearts for sometime now: the dizzy and delightful Depression-era comedy, Three Men on a Horse by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm. We first encountered Three Men in 1998 when we presented it in our Concert Performance at the NY Historical Society. It's been a play we've been longing to revisit. With its jaunty dialogue, vivid characters, and great big heart, now seemed the perfect time.
Both plays are big: big ideas, big laughs and, more to the point, big casts. We're taking something of risk bringing them both to you in one season, but that's what we're about. The commitment to our mission and our company of professional theatre artists means everything to us - and we hope to you as well!
