A world premiere by Amelia Roper
Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt
Cast: Sami Molly Bray*, Juliana Canfield*, Samantha Blaire Cutler*, Gregory Diaz IV*, Renata Friedman*, Carolyn Holding*, Lynne Lipton*, Austin Smith*, Matthew Stadelmann*
& Paul Wesley
sets / John McDermott // lighting / Grant Yeager
costumes / Tilly Grimes // sound / Brendan Aanes
properties / Samantha Shoffner
production management / Daniel Prosky
Line Producer / Jessica Rieken
Associate Producer / Shannon Buhler
Stage Manager / Abbie Betts*
Assistant stage manager / Katie Cecil Cairns
Casting / Anne Davison //press agent / Richard Kornberg
Company Videography / Crystal Arnette
Production stills / Robert Altman
A grand hotel in Switzerland. Guests enjoy their private, awkward, funny and not-so-funny lives while the world around them falls apart.
Zürich is a play about the big and the small, messes and who cleans them up, and the impossibility of neutrality.
This play was commissioned by Colt Coeur with the support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.
Premiered April-May 2018 at NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP's Next Door Series
*These artists are appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association. This is an Equity-Approved Showcase. Zürich is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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Press
“The 10 characters in “Zürich,” directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt in a polished Colt Coeur production, are human beings of the 21st century... Ms. Roper lends a bracingly astringent perspective to life as we know it today. “Zürich” takes what might be called a terrorist approach to the classic omnibus comedies associated with the likes of Alan Ayckbourn and Neil Simon.”
“★★★★! Working with a superb multigenerational cast, Campbell-Holt fleshes out every uncomfortable nuance in Roper’s collection of mostly two-person conversations. Placid as some of the interactions might look from our voyeuristic vantage point, they are tense with potential violence; corruption, betrayal and resentment are never very far from the surface.
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“Ingeniously engineered... an ambitious concept... excellent ensemble cast...”
“Amelia Roper’s smart dialogue matched with winning performances makes Zürich a stand out.”
“This current production is a brainteaser. In a series of scenes, many issues of human interaction are addressed albeit even those awkward and very private ones that we’d never hope anyone might be privy to watch...From the emergence of these scenes, spiffily directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, we peek into worlds of corruption, violence, frightening reality that touches all of our lives in a place that remains neutral. The writing is humor-laden.”