Rehearsals Begin Tuesday, October 14
Casting is set for award-winning British playwright
Joe Orton’s riotous farce “What the Butler Saw,” opening at the
Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum on November 23, 2014. Rehearsals begin October 14, previews begin November 12 and performances run through December 21.
Joining previously-announced cast member
Paxton Whitehead (Broadway’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” “My Fair Lady” and “Noises Off”), are
Frances Barber (Ophelia in “Hamlet” and Marguerite in “Camille” at Royal Shakespeare Company),
Sarah Manton (Broadway’s “One Man, Two Guvnors”), Angus McEwan (“The Duchess”),
Rod McLachlan (Broadway’s “Holiday,” The Government Inspector” and “Our Town”) and
Charles Shaughnessy (best known for CBS’ “The Nanny”).
“What the Butler Saw” is directed by farce veteran and Orton expert
John Tillinger, who previously directed the Orton plays
“Loot” and “Entertaining Mr. Sloane” in repertory
at the Taper (1987). Set design is by James Noone, costume design is by
Laurie Churba Kohn, lighting design is by Ken Billington and John McKernon, sound design is by
John Gromada, wigs and hair are by Carol F. Doran,
Casting is by Mark B. Simon, CSA, and the production stage manager is
David S. Franklin.
Set
in the consulting room of a private psychiatric clinic, the action
begins when the very proper
Dr. Prentice (played by Shaughnessy) is interrupted by his wife
(Barber) just as he is about to seduce a beautiful, young woman who is
applying for a job as a secretary (Manton). As his botched efforts to
conceal his actions spiral outrageously out of control,
Orton ferociously skewers psychiatry, religion, marriage, morality, government and definitions of gender.
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