Lyric Stage Company of Boston recently announced casting for the upcoming production of Katori Hall‘s (The Mountaintop) new play, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning.
The official synopsis reads:
In the tradition of the moving Intimate Apparel and hilarious By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning is a “fresh, spontaneous, and highly watchable”* play that brings together seven African-American women in a Memphis beauty parlor/boarding house during the waning days of World War II. As they wrestle with the uncertainty of what the future will hold when, and if, their men return, they fight dirty — with each other and with their own fears and desires, uncovering newfound friendship and love.
The cast of Saturday Night/Sunday Morning stars Ramona Lisa Alexander, Jackie Davis, Meagan Dilworth, Jade Guerra, Cloteal L. Horne, Tasia A. Jones, Keith Mascoll, Omar Robinson, and Jasmine Rush.
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons, the creative team also includes scenic design by Mac Young, costume design by Elisabetta Polito, lighting design by Ian W. King, and sound design by Kelsey Jarboe.
Katori Hall is a playwright and performer from Memphis, TN. Hall’s plays include: The Mountaintop (2010 Olivier Award for Best New Play), which ran on Broadway at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre starring Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson, Hurt Village (2011 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Signature Theatre), Children of Killers (National Theatre, UK and Castillo Theatre, NYC), Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane Theatre), Remembrance (Women’s Project), Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature Theatre) and Pussy Valley (Mixed Blood). Hall is an alumna of the Lark Playwrights’ Workshop, where she developed The Mountaintop and Our Lady of Kibeho, and a graduate of Columbia University, the A.R.T. at Harvard University, and the Juilliard School. She will also soon begin directing her first film, “Arkabutla,” as previously reported.
Preview performances of Saturday Night/Sunday Morning are set to start October 23 and run through November 21, with an official October 25 opening at the Lyric Stage in Boston, MA. Tickets range from $31 to $65 and can be purchased here.
