NewsPHOTO CALL: Goldfarb's The Retributionists Debuts Off-BroadwayPlaywrights Horizons currently presents the world premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's The Retributionists at its Off-Broadway home. Margarita Levieva, Cristin Milioti and Adam Rothenberg star.
By
Ernio Hernandez
September 14, 2009
Leigh Silverman directs the work that also features Hamilton Clancy, Adam Driver, Rebecca Henderson and Lusia Strus. Tom Kitt provides original music. "Spring 1946. The plan was simple: a German for every Jew," according to PH. "Its execution would be swift, clean, its impact undeniable. In this daring new romantic thriller inspired by actual events, a band of young Jewish freedom fighters attempts to avenge a society's wrongs – if they can keep from tearing each other apart in the process."
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.