Auckland Theatre Company Presents Red

“There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend... one day the black will swallow the red.”

Director: Oliver Driver
Design: John Parker, Brad Gledhill, Claire Cowan
Cast: Michael Hurst, Elliot Christensen-Yule

Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, abstract expressionist Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting. A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose struggle to accept his growing riches and praise became his ultimate undoing.

“An electrifying new play.” - Daily Mail

“A fresh, exciting portrait of a brilliant mind.” - New York Times

"Most plays about painters avoid the actual painting but the great thing about Red is that we get to experience the art, the craft, the sheer hard slog; the whole messy, physical process, from stretching and sizing the canvases, mixing and applying the paint and we get the exhilaration of the act, too. Red is a philosophical, visceral, tough, emotional voyage into the very heart and soul of an artist." - Colin

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