Mad Forest, by Caryl Churchill
February 15-March 4, 2007
at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Chelsea
Nominated for a 2007 NY Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Ensemble.
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Matthew Gray, Christiaan Koop, Tom Cleary
“Anyone unfamiliar with Mad Forest, Churchill’s stark, unsettling, kaleidoscopic drama... should rush to see QED Productions’ stunning revival.... beautifully directed by Julia Beardsley O'Brien.... This is political theatre at its best.”
–Back Stage
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“The production values are first-class all the way.... The eleven-member ensemble... is exemplary.... Kudos to QED for bringing this work to its audience with such craft and intelligence.”
–nytheatre.com
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Micah Freedman, Andy Waldschmidt, Mick O’Brien, Christiaan Koop, Matthew Gray, Tom Cleary
In December of 1989, the people of Romania violently overturned the rule of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu. Three months later, British playwright Caryl Churchill went to Bucharest with a group of acting students to see first-hand a society still groping its way forward through the chaotic aftermath of revolution. Out of this experience came Mad Forest, Churchill’s kaleidoscopic portrait of this extraordinary chapter in world history. Combining a fictional storyline with actual eyewitness accounts of the revolution, Churchill paints a world in which sudden freedom is both intoxicating and terrifying.
