In the wings: 'The Father' gets a West Coast premiere at North Coast Rep

San Diego Union-Tribune

May 31, 2018 2 PM PT

North Coast Rep is staging the West Coast premiere of Florian Zeller’s time-bending, mystery-laced play “The Father,” about an older man whose faltering grip on memory shakes up his life and relationship with his daughter.

NCRT artistic chief David Ellenstein directs James Sutorius, Robyn Cohen, Matthew Salazar-Thompson, Jacque Wilke, Richard Baird and Shana Wride in the piece, which was nominated for a Tony Award as best play in 2016.

“The Father” — whose subtitle is “A Tragic Farce” — was translated from the original French by Christopher Hampton. The play premiered in 2012 in Paris; its subsequent Broadway production won a Tony for actor Frank Langella in the lead role.

‘The Father’

When: In previews. Opens Saturday (June 2). 7 p.m. Wednesdays; 8 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays; 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays. Through June 24.

Where: North Coast Rep, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach.

Tickets: $42-$53 (discounts available).

Phone: (858) 481-1055

Online: northcoastrep.org.

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James Hebert

James Hebert is The San Diego Union-Tribune’s theater critic, and has covered the San Diego arts scene for more than two decades. He earned his master’s degree at Columbia University in New York and worked as a magazine editor in Boston before joining the U-T. Hebert’s awards include a national arts-writing prize from the Society for Features Journalism (for a profile of the choreographer Twyla Tharp), and some two dozen local and regional journalism honors; his work also has been republished in two college writing textbooks. In 2009, Hebert served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

In the wings: ‘The Father’ gets a West Coast premiere at North Coast Rep

‘The Father’