Off-Broadway's Mint Theater Company has announced the complete company of its limited engagement staging of Harold Brighouse's Garside's Career. Running February 1 through March 15 at Theatre Row, opening night is set for February 20.
Starring Daniel Marconi (Sweeney Todd) as Peter Garside, the production will also feature Erik Gratton (West Side Story), Sara Haider (Partnership), Melissa Maxwell (Henry V), Paul Niebanck (In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)), Michael Schantz (Othello), Madeline Seidman (Becomes a Woman), Amelia White (Crazy for You), and Avery Whitted (Chains).
Matt Dickson will direct. The design team will include scenic designers Christoper Swader and Justin Swader, costume designer Kindall Almond, lighting designer Yuan Li, and sound designer Carsen Joenk.
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 previous 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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