Los Angeles Premiere of a new Farce by Mark Twain, adapted by David Ives
June 05, 2012
Coeurage Theatre Company
presents
IS HE DEAD?
What do you get when you combine Mark Twain and David Ives? “An elaborate madcap comedy that registers high on the mirth meter and reaches especially giddy comic heights!” – David Rooney, Variety. Coeurage Theatre Company brings the Twain-penned, Ives-adapted farce Is He Dead? to the stage right in time for the 3rd Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Twain’s play was never produced in his time, largely due to a fire that destroyed London’s Lyceum theatre in 1898. Over a century later, the play was discovered in UC Berkeley’s archives, revamped by Ives, and debuted on Broadway – ironically at the Lyceum Theatre.
Coeurage looks to build on a third season that has already seen hit productions of Balm in Gilead and Romeo and Juliet, also featuring ambitious mountings with large ensemble casts. Associate Artistic Director Ryan Wagner returns after directing their acclaimed produc...
