BETROTHED

Written and directed by Rachel Dickstein

Original score composed by Vijay Iyer

Set Design by Susan Zeeman Rogers
Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban
Lighting Design by Nicole Pearce

Based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri’sThe Treatment of Bibi Haldar, Chekhov’s fableBetrothed, and S. Ansky’s folktale The Dybbuk.

Inspired by Indian Kathak folk dance, Marc Chagall, and wedding ceremonies from South Asian and Western cultures, the play offers a unique look inside three women’s struggle between marriage and personal independence, to explore what is one of the most controversial ceremonies of our time.

Created in collaboration with the ensemble: Laura Butler, Lula Graves, Daniel Irizarry, Ryan Justesen, Mahira Kakkar, Derek Lucci, Paula McGonagle, Gita Reddy, Alok Tewari

Produced by Catherine Ward
Production Manager/TD Gary Levinson
Production Stage Manager Joanna Leigh Jacobson
Assistant Set and Prop design by Emily Rebholz
Press Representation: Richard Kornberg & Associates

Betrothed has been developed with the generous support of Meet the Composer, the Jerome Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Pufffin Foundation, the Nancy Quinn Fund of A.R.T./ New York, the New York State Council on the Arts – a State Agency, the Dramatists Guild Fund, the Katherine Dalglish Foundation, the Emanuel and Jette Metzger Philanthropic Fund and private donations.

May 4-26, 2007 at the Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster Street

Betrothed was first presented in a workshop production at the Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory 2006.