Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
World Premiere Feb 26 - Apr 7, 2019Three women—an art restorer, her nurse and their military captor—are trapped in a ravaged museum during a catastrophic hundred years war. Tasked with restoring a damaged Rembrandt painting, the women find common shreds of humanity as they try to save a small symbol of beauty in their broken world.
Holly Twyford (A Little Night Music, Sex with Strangers) and Felicia Curry (The Scottsboro Boys) star in this season’s Heidi Thomas Writers’ Initiative work, a brutal and elegant exploration of the unifying virtue of art and what things are most worth saving when the world is collapsing.
Performance Information
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Run Time
Run time approximately 95 minutes with no intermission.
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Content Warnings
This production contains theatrical haze, flashing lights, strong language and depictions of graphic violence and blood.
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Sponsored by
SigWorks: The Heidi Thomas Writers’ Initiative, a partnership with the Jenna and Paul Segal Foundation, is a multi-year commitment to present world premieres by female playwrights with female directors.
New Work at Signature Theatre sponsored by Dan and Gloria Logan
Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts