Swordplay Reading to Feature Brannon, Lee, Smith, Watson

By Andrew Gans
01 Oct 2009

A by-invitation-only reading of Ben Bettenbender's Swordplay will be presented Oct. 2 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA.

Directed by Brian Nitzkin, the cast will feature Ben Brannon (Othello, Last Night of Ballyhoo), David Huynh (This is Our Youth, Balm in Gilead), Victor Lee (Love Letters, A Thorn in Her Side), Alexis Rhee, Don Smith (Fame, Crank), Tim Venable (Night of the Iguana, Hamlet) and Jeorge Watson (Glory of Living, Stop Kiss).

Swordplay, according to press notes, is described is such: "Lives of a father and his son are turned upside down by a family tragedy and both men are forced to go to extreme measures to gain understanding, acceptance and the power to move on."

Bettenbender is also the author of Bliss (in New York at Rattlestick Productions and Currican); Vick’s Boy (Circa Theatre, American Theater Company in Chicago, Rattlestick Productions); Scaring the Fish (in New York at the INTAR and in San Francisco at the Magic Theatre); Those Left Behind (The Directors Company); Widow’s Walk (The Levin Theater Company, New Brunswick, NJ, and at the Summer NITE Festival in Chicago); Emil (New Jersey Repertory Theatre, The Levin Theater Company); and A Second Wind (Rutgers University, the Jan Hus Theater in New York, and The George Street Playhouse).

The Kirk Douglas Theatre is located at 9820 Washington Blvd. in Culver City, CA.