LUNAR ECLIPSE
In the shadow of the moon, everything comes to light.
By Donald Margulies - NEW JERSEY PREMIERE!
Directed by Mark David Boberick
with Andy Prosky* & Rita Rehn*
August 27 through September 20
WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS at 7:00 PM
SUNDAY MATINEES at 2:00 PM
Tickets: $40 General Admission, $35 Seniors
$25 Students & Military
OPENING NIGHT (8/27): $45, including Afterparty (no discounts)
PREVIEW NIGHT (8/26): $25 General Admission
THE CLEMANS THEATER for the ARTS at Allen A.M.E.
717 FRANKLIN STREET CAPE MAY, NJ
George has been waiting for this night – the seven stages of a lunar eclipse are viewable from the farm that he shares with his wife Em – and she decides to join him in taking in the view.
As the couple has been married for decades, they know how to take care of each other, needle one another, and offer each other the companionship that has made their lives so full, even though the world has saddled them with great chasms of emptiness.
Like the celestial event unfolding above them, the evening becomes a moment of alignment—when the secrets the sky reveals illuminate the universal truths at the heart of a long marriage.
With humor, tenderness, and emotional precision, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Donald Margulies crafts an intimate portrait of love, commitment, and the passage of time.
Content Note:
This play contains adult language and mature themes.
As the couple has been married for decades, they know how to take care of each other, needle one another, and offer each other the companionship that has made their lives so full, even though the world has saddled them with great chasms of emptiness.
Like the celestial event unfolding above them, the evening becomes a moment of alignment—when the secrets the sky reveals illuminate the universal truths at the heart of a long marriage.
With humor, tenderness, and emotional precision, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Donald Margulies crafts an intimate portrait of love, commitment, and the passage of time.
Content Note:
This play contains adult language and mature themes.
BIOS
DONALD MARGULIES (Playwright) has won a Lucille Lortel Award, two American Theatre Critics New Play Citations, two Los Angeles Drama Critics Awards, two Obie Awards (for Sight Unseen and The Model Apartment), one Tony Award nomination (for Time Stands Still), one L.A. Ovation Award (for The Country House), two Dramatists’ Guild Hull-Warriner Awards, five Drama Desk Award nominations, five Burns Mantle Best Play citations, two Pulitzer Prize nominations (for Sight Unseen and Collected Stories), and one Pulitzer Prize (for Dinner With Friends). His many plays include Lunar Eclipse, Long Lost, Brooklyn Boy, The Loman Family Picnic, What’s Wrong With This Picture?, Found A Peanut, God of Vengeance, Coney Island Christmas and Shipwrecked! An Entertainment – The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougemont (As Told by Himself).
His work has been produced in New York by Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, Second Stage, Roundabout Theatre Company, the New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Jewish Repertory Theatre and Theatre for the New City; at theaters across America, including South Coast Repertory, the Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theater of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Long Wharf Theatre; and in theaters around the world. Mr. Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
In 2005 he was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature, and he was the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre by a playwright; the 2014 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater American Playwright in Mid-Career Award; and the 2015 William Inge Festival Award for Distinguished Achievement by a Playwright. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mr. Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America. He is a Professor in the Practice of English and Theatre and Performance Studies at Yale University. His screenplay, The End of the Tour, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for Independent Film Spirit and USC Scripter Awards for best screenplay.
His work has been produced in New York by Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, Second Stage, Roundabout Theatre Company, the New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Jewish Repertory Theatre and Theatre for the New City; at theaters across America, including South Coast Repertory, the Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theater of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Long Wharf Theatre; and in theaters around the world. Mr. Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
In 2005 he was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature, and he was the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre by a playwright; the 2014 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater American Playwright in Mid-Career Award; and the 2015 William Inge Festival Award for Distinguished Achievement by a Playwright. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mr. Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America. He is a Professor in the Practice of English and Theatre and Performance Studies at Yale University. His screenplay, The End of the Tour, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for Independent Film Spirit and USC Scripter Awards for best screenplay.
ANDY PROSKY* (George) Born in Washington DC, Andy now makes his home in New York City. He holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Rutgers University where he studied acting with William Esper. He has performed in Europe at The English Theatre in Vienna and toured the United States with The Acting Company. In the film Up Close and Personal he had a one-on-one scene with screen legend Robert Redford. In New York he performed with Christopher Plummer at Lincoln Center in Shakespeare’s King Lear. His professional debut came when he was 12 years old at Arena Stage in Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle. His father Robert Prosky was a member of the resident acting company of Arena Stage for 25 years before starting a highly successful Film and Television career that included “Hill Street Blues” and many feature films such as The Natural and Mrs. Doubtfire. His father and he performed in Arthur Miller’s The Price with Andy’s brother John Prosky at the historic Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. Andy is an avid guitar and bass player and enjoys spending his summers in Cape May Point, NJ.
RITA REHN* (Em) Cape May: Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Heisenberg; Broadway: Nine, Tony winning Best Musical, A Chorus Line, Royal Family. Award winning series "The Barbara and Benny Show" on You Tube now looking for venues overseas. Much gratitude to Andy Prosky for being my partner and Bob Johnson for helping me learn lines!!
*Appearing through an Agreement between this theater and Actors' Equity Association,
the Union of Professional Actors & Stage Managers in the United States.
LUNAR ECLIPSE is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com
the Union of Professional Actors & Stage Managers in the United States.
LUNAR ECLIPSE is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com
