Off-Broadway's Mint Theater Company has announced it will stage a limited engagement of Harold Brighouse's Garside's Career February 1-March 15, 2025 at Theatre Row. Opening night is set for February 20.
Daniel Marconi (Sweeney Todd) will star as Peter Garside, and Matt Dickson will direct. Additional casting and creatives will be announced at a later date.
Garside's Career follows Peter Garside's journey from working engineer to member of Parliament, propelled by a silver tongue and a fascination with his power to persuade.
“One of the reasons I was drawn to producing older plays in the first place is they can show how today’s alarming issues have usually been around for ages," Mint Artistic Director Jonathan Bank said in a statement. "Working on them (or seeing them) helps put things in perspective. ‘If there’s one thing you learn by going regularly to the Mint,’ a critic once wrote, ‘it’s that the world has changed less than you think.’ Garside’s Career is especially deft at making that point, using a good deal of humor and a little sex too. Written 110 years ago, it’s a story about the intoxicating feeling that candidate Peter Garside has when commanding a crowd from the top of a soapbox, 'the glorious sensation of holding a crowd in the hollow of your hand,' and the problems this creates for his fiancé, his family and his constituents.”
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