Sets – Christine Jones
Costumes – Paul Tazewell
Lighting – Scott Zielinski
Sound – David Van Tieghem

Cast:
Patricia Buckley, Airrion Doss, Sean Dugan, Peter Frechette, Peter Gaitens, Jessica Hecht, Cherry Jones, Chris McGarry, Martha Plimpton, John Sierros, and Jeff Weiss

Facility:
New York Theatre Workshop

Facility Address:
79 East 4th Street. Located between Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village.

Prices:
all tickets, $60.00

Description:
FLESH AND BLOOD, by Peter Gaitens, adapted from the novel by Michael Cunningham (Pulitzer Prize winner for The Hours), is the epic story of three generations of an American family, beginning in the 1930s with the arrival of Greek immigrant Constantine Stassos in New York City. The story spans one hundred years, illuminating how, like many American families, the dreams of a single immigrant are played out and transformed by succeeding generations. In an on-going cycle, each generation of the Stassos family both alters and is altered by its moment in time, until we find a family remarkably different than that of its roots. Directed by NYTW veteran Doug Hughes (A Question of Mercy), the cast of FLESH AND BLOOD will include acclaimed performers Jessica Hecht, Cherry Jones, Martha Plimpton, and Jeff Weiss.

FLESH AND BLOOD is the third in an on-going series being produced by the Workshop entitled CRADLE AND ALL: THE CHANGING AMERICAN FAMILY. Four works, beginning in February, 2003, with Prudence Wright Holmes' Bexley, OH(!), will explore how powerful historical forces - economic, social and political - have radically transformed American family life over the last century, as well as how these forces will continue to impact this essential human structure into the future. Other works in the series include CAVEDWELLER, play by Kate Moira Ryan, based on the novel by Dorothy Allison, directed by Michael Greif; and Alexander Thomas' THROW PITCHFORK, which was first produced at NYTW last season and will be remounted for a limited engagement. The series will culminate in a weekend symposium examining the American family circa the year 2050.

Dates:
First preview, Saturday, June 28, 2002; opening night, Wednesday, July 16, 2002;
final performance, Sunday, August 24, 2002

Performance schedule:
Tuesday - Friday, 8:00pm; Saturday, 2:00pm and 8:00pm; Sunday, 2:00pm and 7:00pm

Exceptions:
Saturday, June 28, no 2:00pm performance
Sunday, June 29, no 2:00pm performance
Friday, July 4, no performance
Sunday, July 13, no 7:00pm performance
Monday, July 14, special 8:00pm performance
Wednesday, July 16, 7:00pm curtain (opening night)
Thursday, July 17, no performance

AfterWords (post-performance discussions):
Tuesday, July 8
Wednesday, July 9
Tuesday, July 22
Wednesday, July 23

Running time:
2 hours with one 15 minute intermission

About the artists:
Peter Gaitens, originally from North Vancouver, British Columbia, trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England, with the invaluable financial support of actors Kate Nelligan and Victor Garber. Previous to Flesh and Blood, he co-adapted (with Maia Guest) a stage version of James Baldwin’s novel, Giovanni’s Room, which was produced at the Drill Hall in London. This was the first Estate-sanctioned adaptation of any of Baldwin’s works. His UK acting credits include – Giovanni’s Room, The Glass Menagerie, Never Swim Alone, Moliere’s Shorts, Golden Boy, The Heretic Mysteries, A Month in the Country, Eurydice, Dog in the Manger, The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, and Pillow Talk, and in the US, the first production of Flesh and Blood at Portland Center Stage. Television credits include 21 Jumpstreet, Red Dwarf, Danger Bay, Top Cops, Top of the Hill and Neon Rider. He is the recipient of the Alliance Communications Corporation Canadian Talent Development Award and a Canada Council Arts Grant and has taken part in NYTW’s summer residency at Dartmouth College. Peter is a NYTW “Usual Suspect”.

Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1952 and grew up in Pasadena, California. He received his B.A. in English literature from Stanford University and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. His novel A Home at the End of the World was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1990 to wide acclaim. Flesh and Blood another novel, followed in 1995. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and DoubleTake. His story “White Angel” was chosen for Best American Short Stories 1989. In August 2002, he published Land’s End: A Walk Through Provincetown, a work of non-fiction. Michael Cunningham received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award, both for The Hours, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1988, a Michener Fellowship from the University of Iowa in 1982, and the Whiting Writers Award in 1995. He currently lives in New York City. A film version of The Hours has been made -- directed by Stephen Daldry, and featuring Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep. A film version of A Home at the End of the World, directed by Michael Mayer, starring Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, and Sissy Spacek, completed filming in the spring of 2003.