KEIR DULLEA 

 

 

Keir Dullea, best known for his starring role in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, will be back at SKTC this January in Kent Brown's Butcher's Cabin, playing the sort of dark, troubled persona that characterized his career. But the man himself is anything but dark and troubled. Residing in Fairfield and married to actress Mia Dillon, Keir is always in demand somewhere.

 

Born in Cleveland, Dullea found himself in the thick of Manhattan's intellectual scene when his parents took over the management of a Greenwich Village bookstore. He attended Rutgers and San Francisco State before launching his acting career in regional theater and making his NY debut in a 1956 production of Sticks and Bones. His first big break came in the TV pilot of Route 66 and was followed by roles in Naked City, and Checkmate, leading to a spectacular 1961 film debut in The Hoodlum Priest as a born-to-hang juvenile delinquent who crosses paths with a determined minister.

 

From then on, Dullea's characters seemed to walk a dangerous tightrope of emotions. He starred as the haphephobic teenager David in the deeply-felt love story David and Lisa (1962) winning the Golden Globe Award for Most  Promising Male Newcomer. In The Thin Red Line (1964) he played an edgy, nervous-eyed private who is pushed to his murderous brink by a brutal sergeant on Guadacanal. In Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) Dullea portrayed the incest-inclined brother of Carol Lynley. He also co-starred as the mysterious intruder who inserts an emotional wedge between lesbian lovers Anne Heywood and Sandy Dennis in the groundbreaking film about homosexuals, The Fox (1967). Two years later he played the salacious Marquis De Sade in a relatively tame production of De Sade (1969). The apex of his film career, however, came with his starring role in Stanley Kubrick's epic science-fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), as the astronaut Dr. David Bowman, a role he reprised in 2010.

 

A consummate stage actor as well, Keir made his debut on Broadway in 1967 with Dr. Cook's Garden co-starring Burl Ives, and won some "flower power" stardom two years later as a sensitive young blind man who attempts to wriggle free of his over-protective mother in Butterflies Are Free opposite Blythe Danner. He continued to show his odd-man-out appeal as Brick in the Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1974, acting along with Elizabeth Ashley as "Maggie," and in the black comedy P.S.: Your Cat Is Dead one year later. Since then Keir has acted steadily on the stage in NYC and in regional theaters in productions of Doubles, Sweet Prince, The Seagull, and The Little Foxes, among others.

 

His cinematic roles since 1970 have included another "mysterious stranger" in The Next One (1984), The Good Shepherd with Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie, directed by Robert De Niro, and The Accidental Husband where he appeared in a cameo role with Isabella Rossellini as his wife.

 

We are thrilled to have this accomplished, renowned actor back with us!

 

 

 

 

 

From the snow of October to the balmy, springlike temperatures of late November, this has been the most confusing autumn on record. I feel I can take credit for the balmy weather: I ordered snow tires.  But, if the weather has you completed mixed up, one thing is clear: the 2nd season of Stray Kats is off and running. If you missed "Holiday Memories" you missed a very special evening thanks to an incredible cast, great music, and of course the beautiful words of Truman Capote. 

The full-season special is over but you can still pick up the remaining five shows at the discounted price of $100. That's a $25 savings!

 

 

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Sincerely,

Kate Katcher
Artistic Director

 

Amos Butcher has been incarcerated for many years, convicted of a brutal murder. Now, at the end of his life, he returns home to live out his dying days...and set the record straight.

SKTC is delighted to premiere this new work by CT playwright Kent Brown. Those of you who joined us last season will recall his poignant two-hander, "In the Middle of Nowhere", the tender and harrowing love-story about an elderly couple grappling with their fear in post 9-11 America. 

Kent is an educator, director, editor and playwright whose works have been produced throughout Canada, Belgium, The Netherlands, Australia and the United States. American venues include People's Light and Theatre Company, Walnut Street Theatre, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Orlando Repertory, BoarsHead Theater, West Coast Ensemble, Boston Theatre Works, Moving Arts, The Side Project and Pulse Ensemble. Titles include Valentines and Killer Chili, Two Beers and a Hook Shot, Larry's Favorite Chocolate Cake, Designer Genes, Playtime, The Seduction of Chaos, Reduced for Quick Sale, The View From Sunset Towers, Lover Boy, Welcome to Four Way: The Town That Time Forgot, A Trick of the Light, Gooney Bird Greene and Her True Life Adventures, The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Comic Thriller Starring Shirley Holmes and Jennie Watson and Gooney Bird Greene and Her Fabulous Animal Parade. Critical recognition includes prizes from Mill Mountain Theatre, McLaren Comedy Festival, Boston Theatre Marathon, George R. Kernodle, Pulse Ensemble and Denver Center Theatre Festival competitions as well as a Drama-Logue Award for Excellence in Writing. In 2007, In the Middle of Nowhere won the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild/Julie Harris Playwright Award. He has served as guest artist/critic at the Writers' Center at Chautauqua, Illinois State University, the Dayton Playhouse New Works Festival, the Indiana Theatre Works Creativity Conference, the New Plays Premiere Series at Clemson University and the Sewanee Writers' Conference and has been a member of the selection panels for the Millay Colony, The Bonderman Playwriting Symposium and New Dramatists. Brown is a member of The Dramatists Guild. He lives in Fairfield, Conn.

 

 

"BUTCHER'S CABIN"- JANUARY 14TH at 7:30 p.m.

 

Florence Phillips in "Land of the Sweets"

Stray Kats will appear at the Newtown Family Festival at Edmond Town Hall on December 4th.

For the 26th year, the festival will benefit Newtown Youth and Family Services.

The Festival is billed as a "family friendly" event and SKTC is hoping that the older children and adults will enjoy these three hilarious one-acts by the inimitable Fred Stroppel , including Florence Phillips as a Russian ballet teacher suffering through yet another season of "The Nutcracker" in "Land of the Sweets", Don Striano & Carole Schweid in "On the Bridge" and Don, Carole, Kate and Florence in "Mashed Turnips", written for this holiday season.  I must tell you, my SKTC followers- I'm a little scared.  

Festival tickets are $15 per person, or $30 for a family four-pack (two adults and two children), with tickets for additional children $5 each. Tickets are available at Everything Newtown, 61 Church Hill Road; C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street; and Newtown Savings Bank's two Newtown branches (39 Main Street and 228 South Main Street, within Sand Hill Plaza) and Bethel branch at 68 Stony Hill Road (Route 6).

Consider a Gift Certificate to Stray Kats Theatre Company for Mom, Dad, Junior's teacher, your Aunt Sarah or your Uncle Sam! One-size fits all! 

Just click on the picture of the gift certificate to go to our order page.

 

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