Set an alert for when Five Models in Ruins, 1981 tickets go on sale with TodayTix to see this new dark comedy about models, beauty, and a world in collapse. Elizabeth Marvel stars in this new play about a model who just appeared on the cover of Vogue — but what comes next? Five Models in Ruins, 1981 plays for a limited run at Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 this spring. Obie Award winner Morgan Green (School Pictures) directs this premiere from rising writer Caitlin Saylor Stephens.
Stephens’s witty, incisive new comedy explores a woman grappling with the power of her own gaze. Experience Five Models in Ruins, 1981 in New York and be transported to Europe…where everything is not quite glamorous. Princess Di just got married, but this European state is crumbling, and a model is ready for her big moment. Or is she? See Five Models in Ruins, 1981 off Broadway to find out.
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By: Caitlin Saylor Stephens
Director: Morgan Green
Producer: Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3
Cast list: Elizabeth Marvel (as Roberta), Stella Everett, Maia Novi, Britne Oldford, Sarah Marie Rodriguez, Madeline Wise
Sets: Afsoon Pajoufar
Costumes: Vasilija Zivanic
Lighting: Cha See
Sound: Kathy Ruvuna
Elizabeth Marvel is no stranger to the stage even as audiences may know her best from her screen roles in House of Cards, Homeland, Burn After Reading, True Grit, Lincoln, and others. Now, she returns to the stage as a darkly comic look as a model realizing the power not of others’ gaze but her own.
Caitlin Saylor Stephens is a playwright on the rise, and her work has been hailed as “taut and brutal” (The New York Times), “artistically hazardous” (The New Yorker), “fearlessly poetic” (Culturebot), and like “Cinderella in reverse” (BOMB Magazine). She is not afraid of depicting thorny women, as is the case in this new play, and her plays offer a sharp cultural critique at their burning core. Now, she turns her attention to a model, Roberta (Marvel), who is at the peak of her career after just landing a cover shoot for Vogue. But where will she go from there?
Five Models in Ruins, 1981 is a new dark comedy about a model looking for her moment of transcendent beauty — only to wonder if it may be too dangerous to behold.
Five Models in Ruins, 1981 is at New York's Lincoln Center Theater - Claire Tow Theater, which is located at 150 West 65th Street, New York, 10023.
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