Too Much Sun
by Nicky Silver
In Too Much Sun, Audrey Langham – a celebrated actress – unravels completely while preparing for a new production of MEDEA. With nowhere else to go, she descends upon her married daughter for a summer by the sea. She is not, however, greeted with confetti and champagne. Her arrival sets off a chain of events alternately hilarious and harrowing.
Run
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Dates
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Type & Version
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Theatre
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May, 2014 – June, 2014
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Play, Original
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Vineyard Theatre, New York, NY
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Cast
Ken Barnett, Richard Bekins, Matt Dellapina, Matt Dickson, Linda Lavin, Jennifer Westfrldt
Creative
Director Mark Brokaw
Nicky Silver – Playwright
Nicky Silver is an American playwright. Formerly of Philadelphia, he resides in New York City. Many of his early plays were originally produced off-off-Broadway at the Vortex Theatre in New York. Later, his plays premiered at Off-Broadway venues such as the Vineyard Theatre and Playwrights Horizons. Silver noted: “My first real break came when the artistic director of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. happened to walk in and saw, ‘Fat Man in Skirts.'” Several of his plays received premieres at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, including Fat Men in Skirts (1991), Free Will and Wanton Lust (January 1993) and The Food Chain (1993-94 season). In her review of Fat Men in Skirts at Woolly Mammoth Theatre for The Washington Post, Lloyd Rose wrote: “Silver is a modern American absurdist in the tradition of John Guare or Harry Kondoleon, but more of a lowbrow. His go-for-the-laugh instincts are as naked as any sitcom writer’s. The dizzying, rather wonderful thing about “Fat Men in Skirts” is that such a shallow technique is made to serve such a deep and anguished vision. Silver never met a pain he couldn’t laugh at.
Silver wrote the new book for the Broadway revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical, The Boys from Syracuse, produced by the Roundabout Theater Company in 2002. His play, The Lyons, opened on Broadway in April 2012, after an Off-Broadway run at the Vineyard Theater in 2011. This is his first play to be produced on Broadway. The play stars Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa.
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