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Playwright: Bob Glaudini
An Incredible Body of Work
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Peter Dubois, Bob Glaudini, John Ortiz. (Photo: Credit: Monique Carboni)
The Huntington Theatre Company continues its 29th season with the world premiere of Bob Glaudini’s Vengeance is the Lord’s, directed by Peter DuBois.
With Vengeance is the Lord’s DuBois and LAByrinth Theatre Company member Glaudini unite for a third world premiere production. Their previous collaborations were both LAByrinth Theater Company productions: A View from 151st Street 2007 and Jack Goes Boating also in 2007, starring LABrynth co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz, who repeated their roles in the recent film version of the play directed by Hoffman.
“Peter was the first person I shared my play with,” says Glaudini. “Coming off the experience of working with Peter on Jack Goes Boating, I knew he was the right collaborator for this project.” Philip [Seymour Hoffman, star of Jack Goes Boating has also been a champion of the play from the start, and was more than happy to hear that it had found a home here at the Huntington.”
“This will be the third play of Bob Glaudini’s I have directed,” says DuBois. “I love returning to his work. He writes with a muscular spare lyricism and creates deep, meaty roles for actors. This play is propelled by magnetic characters, and takes place at the holidays where the quirkiest dynamics of everyone’s family come out at full tilt. Bob imbues this darkly comic domestic drama with a soul-stirring poignancy.”
Bob Glaudini’s works include On Borrowed Time, Against the Sun (Theater Genesis), and The Claiming Race, Sickness of Youth, and The Poison Tree (presented in Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum’s New Works Festival; The Poison Tree went onto be produced on the Taper main stage).
The LAByrinth Theater Company, of which Mr. Glaudini is a member, produced his play Dutch Heart of Man at New York’s The Public Theater, followed by productions of Jack Goes Boating and A View from 151st Street. The Identical Same Temptation and The Claiming Race were produced at New York’s Theater for a New City. He wrote the script for the film Jack Goes Boating, which was released this fall. Mr.
Glaudini also directed the world premiere of Sam Shepard’s Mad Dog Blues at Theater Genesis and the premiere of Cowboy Mouth written by Mr. Shepard and Patti Smith at The American Place Theatre.
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