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Affluence and Deterioration: A Family Portrait
That Face at the Manhattan Theater Club
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The Manhattan Theater Club—winner of sixteen Tony Awards and six Pulitzer Prizes—will present Polly Stenham’s critically acclaimed comedic drama That Face under the direction of Sarah Benson. Stenham’s dark comedy traces the story of a plutocratic family that is rapidly unraveling despite their affluence. After giving a 13-year-old girl 40mg of her mother’s Valium, Mia has been suspended from boarding school. Her brother Henry has dropped out of school entirely and, despite his hopes of attending art school, lives with his mother, Martha, in a destructive, codependent relationship. Their father is thousands of miles away in Hong Kong, leaving the siblings to shoulder the weighty responsibility of piecing their own lives together, while coping with a self-indulgent, manipulative, alcoholic mother.
Polly Stenham is an award-winning English playwright, receiving the Evening Standard’s 2007 Charles Wintour Award and the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, as well as the 2007 Best New Play Theatrical Management Association Award for That Face when it premiered in 2007. Sarah Benson is the Artistic Director of SoHo Rep and directed last season’s acclaimed New York premiere of Sarah Kane’s Blasted. The cast of That Face includes Christopher Abbott (Good Boys and True at Second Stage) as Henry, Cristin Milioti (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter at NYTW) as Mia, and Laila Robins (Frozen) as Martha.
Tickets for That Face are available via New York City Center Box Office (131 W. 55th St.), CityTix® (212-581-1212) and www.nycitycenter.org. Tickets for That Face are $75.