Presented by August Strindberg Repertory Theatre in association with Theater Resources Unlimited.
Public Previews Thur, Nov 30 and Fri, Dec 1 at 7:00 PM. Opens Sat, Dec 2 at 2:00. Runs through Sat, Dec 16 on the following schedule: Evenings Wed-Sat at 7:00, Matinees Sat and Sun @ 2:00.
Tickets: $29 gen adm. Special seating (front rows): $49 for parent & child, $59 for one parent and two children, $69 for two parents and two children.
Box office: SMARTTIX, 212-868-4444; www.smarttix.com
Company's website: www.strindbergrep.com
Recommended for audiences aged 8 to 108.
Running time: 75 minutes
Critics are invited to a closed preview Wed, Nov 29 at 7:00 and any subsequent performance.

NEW YORK, October 26 -- Even people familiar with August Strindberg may be surprised to learn that he wrote plays for children. The best example is "The Black Glove," the fifth (and least performed) of his Chamber Plays. Its place in history has been obscured by a historical fluke: it premiered in 1911, after the close of Strindberg's Intimate Theater, which it was written for. This kept it out of many anthologies. To share it with New York audiences--and especially New York kids--August Strindberg Rep will present it November 30 to December 16 at Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, in the New York premiere of a verse translation by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey. Director is Robert Greer, Artistic Director of the troupe. The piece is recommended for audiences age 8 and up and special family plans are being offered.

In Strindberg's lyrical fantasy, a lost black glove found in the entryway to a large apartment building the day before Christmas Eve mystically passes through the hands of many of its residents as it bestows a Christmas spirit.  The glove belongs to a young wife who has been mistreating her servants and who is known as "too rich for her own good." She has wrongly accused her maid of stealing the ring, but in actuality it is lodged in the glove. Trouble is, there are only two characters who know this: a Tomte (a mythological elf from Nordic folklore typically associated with the winter solstice and Christmas season) and the Christmas Angel. The angel commands the Tomte to take away the young wife's baby daughter in order to teach the wife a lesson about "what it feels like to lose something," promising to restore the baby as a Christmas gift. In the course of the play, the wife learns humility and discovers her lost father.

The play will be acted by a cast of six women, in the British Travesty tradition of the late 1800s (in which Sarah Bernhardt played Hamlet, etc.), in order to ensure that the play will be children-friendly. The set will be minimal because the primary visuals are projected graphics by Donna Miskend, a children's book illustrator. The maid will be played by Crystal Edn. An old professor and old woman are played by Mary Tierney. Other casting is incomplete as of this writing. Costume design is by Janet Mervin. Lighting design is by Gilbert Pearto. Sound design is by Mark Bruckner.
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  Through December 16, 2017

  November 30, 2017 to December 16, 2017
• Gene Frankel Theatre
  24 Bond Street, New York, NY

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