The Sunset Limited
March 17 – April 11, 2010
A Novel in Dramatic Form by Cormac McCarthy
Directed by Jessica Phelps West
Cormac McCarthy is best known for the novels All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. With The Sunset Limited, McCarthy creates a new genre: A Novel in Dramatic Form. In a day when complex emotional and spiritual journeys are reduced to arbitrary categories—clinical depression, mental illness, born again Christian, Atheist—The Sunset Limited cracks open a spiritual reality that is impossible to reduce.
Part metaphysical detective story and part existentialist dialogue, The Sunset Limited is as challenging as it is relentlessly funny in it’s disarming and quizical banter between two disparate characters. McCarthy’s “stylized spareness that magnifies the force and precision of his words” (The New York Times) is particularly resonant in todays economic strife and offers solace in its forthright narrative about a man who has lost all hope and faith. The theatrical medium yields the incomparable richness and honesty for which Cormac McCarthy is so heralded.
The Sunset Limited at The Balzer Theater at Herren’s will be an Atlanta premiere!
Show Prices
Tickets $35 for adults and $15 for reserved student tickets.
Box Office Hours:
Tuesday – Friday
12 – 6 pm
Group and student discounts available by calling Whitney Rusert 678.528.1497
Educational Programming Sponsor:
Show Sponsors:
TBD
Performance Times
- Evening Performances at 7:30 pm: Wednesdays – Saturdays
- Matinee Performances at 2:30 pm: Sundays
- Saturday Matinees: March 27 at 2:30 pm
- $15 Seniors Matinee: Wednesday, March 31 at 2:30 pm
- Dinner & Theater: Thursday, April 1 at 5:30 pm at 30 Tables
- Talkback with Cast and Director: Friday, April 2 following the performance
Talent
Director — Jessica Phelps West
Cast
E. Roger Mitchell*
BLACK
Peter Thomasson*
WHITE
Designers
Set & Costume Designers— Isabel A. Curley-Clay & Moriah Curley-Clay of Axis Studios
Lighting Designer — Cristopher P. Kettrey
Sound Designer — Jonathan Summers
Props Designer — Maclare “MC” Park
Stage Manager — Wendy Palmer*
* Member of Actors’ Equity, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Call the box office for ticket information at 678-528-1500.
