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Off-Broadway News Mike Bartlett’s Bull Extends Off-Broadway

The hyper-intimate play centers on three employees faced with the impending layoff of one of their team.

Kerstin Anderson, Miles G. Jackson, and Alexander Pobutsky in Bull Marc J. Franklin

Mike Bartlett’s Bull, which officially opened Off-Broadway September 22, has extended.

Directed by Max Hunter (George Kaplan, See You), the intimate production is playing to 50 audience members a night at the storefront theatre JACK at 20 Putnam Ave in Brooklyn. The production will now run through October 12.

The newest work from Bartlett (King Charles III) centers on three employees facing imminent layoffs and a simple truth: two will stay, one will go.

“Mike Bartlett’s Bull exposes a more honest and unvarnished view of the profound brutality underlying many of our daily interactions,” said Hunter in a previous statement. “Bartlett manages to entertain and horrify in tandem, creating a fast and furious theatrical experience that is hugely entertaining, deeply hilarious, and a tour-de-force showcase for our fantastic ensemble. In building this production within the intimate confines at JACK, the brutality of Bartlett’s characters is heightened by collapsing the distance between audience and action so that each minor abuse and shift in power becomes unavoidable, primal, visceral. Proximity strips away pretense, placing the audience into a position of complicity and confrontation, demanding an internal response to where and how each person draws their respective line in the sand.”

The staging stars Kerstin Anderson (My Fair Lady), Miles G. Jackson (A Different Man), Alexander Pobutsky (American Fiction), and Paco Tolson (Vietgone).

The creative team includes scenic designer Thomas Jenkeleit, costume designer Amanda Roberge, lighting designer Cheyenne Sykes, assistant director BT Hayes, production stage manager Roger Lipson, and asssistant stage manager Ari Richardson.

Visit BullPlayNYC.com for more information.

 
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