Play: Never the Sinner

Please Join Us As

Woodshed Collective

Presents
The New York Return of

Never the Sinner
The Leopold and Loeb Story

By John Logan

Conceived by Woodshed Collective
Directed by Gabriel Hainer Evansohn
The Outer Citric Circle Award for
Outstanding Off-Broadway Play Returns to New York City July 13-28.

Never the Sinner
July 13 – 28

Flamboyan Theater, CSV Cultural Center (107 Suffolk St.)
Tuesday-Saturday @ 8pm.
Sundays: July 15 and 22 @ 3pm
Saturdays: July 21 and 28 @ 2pm

All Tickets $18
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(Featuring Long Sunday contributor Stephen Squibb!)

In what seems to be ripped from the headlines of today, Never the Sinner is the true story of the complex relationship of Leopold and Loeb that lead to the murder of a fourteen year old boy "for the thrill of it."  Their deed and the sensational trial that followed enthralled a nation in 1924 has inspired playwrights, screenwriters and authors to pen plays, movies, musicals and books all examining the psyche of two boys that had so much promise but hardly any as well received as Never the Sinner.

Never the Sinner depicts the story of Leopold and Loeb - two young millionaire lovers who in 1924, while attending university of Chicago, murdered a fourteen-year-old boy simply for the "thrill of it." This cinematic play chronicles the dark, deranged yet hauntingly tender world of Leopold and Loeb's relationship against the media's sensational coverage of what was then, "the trial of the century."  A trial which is now equally famous for Clarence Darrow's legendary defense of the boys in the face of city-wide cries for execution.

"To say that Leopold and Loeb were 'monsters' is too easy. To say that they were 'evil' is too facile. …Leopold and Loeb were human beings. Just like the rest of us. They were tormented. They were brutal. They lacked any true moral, ethical compass. They could not find their way in our sunlit world, so they embraced the darkness. In that darkness, they had only each other."

- John Logan's forward to Never the Sinner

The Cast Features Teddy Bergman, Chris Cole, Dan Cozzens, Meredith Holzman, E.C. Kelly, Keith Lubeley, Derek Manson, Stephen Squibb, and Hugh Sinclair.

The design team includes Eric Southern (scenic), Carl Faber (lighting), Jessica Pabst (costumes), Joshua Higgason (sound) and Lauren DiGuilio (props).

Press for Woodshed Collective's production of Blood Wedding:

"Woodshed Collective brilliantly executes this story of two families who become trapped in an unbreakable cycle off murder and revenge. Blood Wedding is a beautifully produced and…well acted evening of theater."

-Show Business Weekly

"Everything about Woodshed Collective's new revival of Blood Wedding, Federico Garcia Lorca's poetic tragedy, is striking…there's eye catching imagery aplenty here.  They know how to compose arresting, impressive stage pictures."

–nytheatre.com

"There are many things to like in Woodshed's production, not the least of which is Lillian Groag's limpid new translation, which – especially in this ensemble's naturalistic performance – lends a refreshing immediacy to Lorca's prose."

-Village Voice

"[Blood Wedding's] climax is particularly breathtaking. The scene looks like a painting, and says more in a moment about the violence and hopelessness of the times…than pages of words."

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