‘Neva’ at The Kirk Douglas Theatre

In collaboration with the South Coast Repertory and La Jolla Playhouse,  Neva, Guillermo Calderón’s politically charged play, opens Wed. June 12 as DouglasPlus event at the Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.  

The production will take place in the theatre’s rehearsal room, Upstairs and will play for eight performances only through June 16, (including one preview on June 11).
Chile’s Teatro en el Blanco’s Spanish language production of  Neva was one of the highlights of the Radar L.A. festival in June 2011.  The DouglasPlus production is the West Coast premiere of the English translation by Andrea Thome.

This production, which is also directed by Calderón, features Sue Cremin, Ruth Livier and Ramón de Ocampo. 
The show takes audiences to St. Petersburg in 1905, where Anton Chekhov’s widow, the actress Olga Knipper, is huddled with fellow actors in a dimly lit rehearsal room, while striking workers are being gunned down by the tsarist regime in the streets outside. 

Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times wrote of Neva,  “. . . culminates in a cascading monologue of revolutionary fervor that is, in its critique of bourgeoisie stage pretension, unlike anything I’ve experienced in the theatre.”

Tickets for “Neva” are available at www.CenterTheatreGroup.org, the CTG box office located at the Ahmanson Theatre or at the Kirk Douglas Theatre box office two hours prior to the performance, or by calling (213) 628-2772. Tickets are $30 (ticket prices are subject to change). The Kirk Douglas Theatre is located at 9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232.