DIRECTORJONATHAN BANK

SET DESIGNVICKI R. DAVIS

LIGHTING DESIGNBEN STANTON

COSTUME DESIGNHENRY SHAFFER

SOUND DESIGNJANE SHAW

PROPS SPECIALISTJUDI GURALNICK

ASSISTANT DIRECTORKIMBERLY MUELLER

CASTING DIRECTORSHARRON BOWER

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERSAMONE B. WEISSMAN

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERSARAH DUNCAN

PRESS REPRESENTATIVEDAVID GERSTEN& ASSOCIATES

GRAPHIC DESIGNJUDE DVORAK

ARTISTIC DIRECTORJONATHAN BANKPRESENTS

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SAVE THE DATE:Monday, May 2ndFINDING J. M. BARRIEQuestion:Do you know where The Old LadyShows her Medals starring FrancesSternhagen had its first Mint presentation?

Answer:As part of last year’s Gala Benefit!

This year’s gala - Finding J. M. Barrie- presents two more short gems bythe writer of Echoes of the War &Peter Pan. It will feature - a cast of New York’s finest talent, a lovelyreception and silent auction includingsome hard to find tickets, health-clubmemberships, a handmade quilt, finewine and more!

SURROUND EVENTS: THE LONELY WAYDiscussions last approximately 50 minutes and can be attended by all Mint patrons free of charge.

Arthur Schnitzler and Fin de Siecle Vienna – Sat. Feb. 5 following the matineeJoin Mark Anderson, Prof. of Germanic Languages (Columbia Univ.) for a discussion on turn-of-the-century Vienna and one of the leadingfigures of its literary avant-garde—Arthur Schnitzler. Anderson is the author of the upcoming Uncanny Nation: The Jewish-German Originsof Modernity from Paris to Bayreuth. He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins, Wesleyan, and L’Université de Paris.

Translating Schnitzler – Sat. Feb. 12 following the matineeMeet Margret Schaefer, the translator of Mint’s newly commissioned version of Der Einsame Weg. Schaefer has also published two volumesof Schnitzler’s short fiction—Night Games (2002) and Desire and Delusion (2003) and is currently working on a 3rd. She received her Ph. D.from U.C. Berkeley and has taught Comparative Literature at Berkeley, San Francisco State and the Univ. of Illinois, Chicago. Books will beavailable for purchase.

Psychoanalysis and Literature in Vienna - Sat. Feb. 19 following the matineeMartin Harries, Assoc. Prof. of English (NYU) will speak on the intersection of two powerful forces shaping turn-of-the-century thought. Hehas published in New German Critique, Theatre Journal and The Yale Journal of Criticism and is at work on his 2nd book: Lot’s Wife: LookingBack at Disaster in the Twentieth Century. Harries was educated at Yale, Columbia and Cambridge Universities and has also taught at Yale,Williams College and Princeton.

Parents, Children and Identity – Sat. Feb. 26 following the matineeThe Lonely Way raises compelling questions about identity. A child discovers his parents are not who he thought they were. A parent seeksa relationship with the child they gave up for adoption. Join two experts from the Association of Marriage and Family Therapists who willdiscuss the psychological and social questions raised by The Lonely Way.

Also: Mint Artistic Director Jonathan Bank and members of the cast will talk about the play and take your questions after the performanceevery Thursday night in February.

Call 212-315-0231 torequest your invitation.

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“In Arthur Schnitzler’s The Lonely Way, serious theatergoers can benefit from the discovery of a marvelous play…”-Ned Chaillet,

Wall Street Journal

“In Arthur Schnitzler’s The Lonely Way, serious theatergoers can benefit from the discovery of a marvelous play…”

Mint Theater Company, “that trufflehound of half-buried treasures from thepast” is now in it’s thirteenth seasonexcavating such worthy but neglectedtreasures as J.M. Barrie’s Echoes of the War,The Daughter-in-Law by D.H. Lawrence and Arthur Schnitzler’s Far and Wide.

This February Mint will offer New Yorkaudiences their first opportunity to seeAustrian master Arthur Schnitzler’s brilliant1904 play The Lonely Way in a new Englishtranslation by Margret Schaefer andJonathan Bank.

In 2003 Mint introduced New York theatergoers to theneglected talents of one of the 20th century’s mostimportant European playwrights: Arthur Schnitzler. This winter, we will present another Schnitzlermasterwork, The Lonely Way (Der Einsame Weg), in a World Premiere translation, with performancesbeginning on February 1st, 2005.

Mint’s production of Schnitzler’s Far and Wide (Dasweite Land) was a sensational success, quickly sellingout its originally scheduled five week run and extendingfor an additional eleven weeks. Theatergoers who hadpreviously known Schnitzler only from his frequentlyproduced La Ronde were both surprised and enthralled

“Schnitzler previously seems to have been served up secondhand with not much of the original taste intact,” wrote Karl Leverett in Backstage. “Suddenly with Far and Widethere’s a plate of meat and potatoes before you. Schnitzler has the most penetrating vision of human relationships, often expressedin the most contradictory terms. The acute psychological insights never falter and make this a sustained drama for the head and heart.Again, we are in debt to the Mint Theater for this Lazarus-like exhumation.”

The Lonely Way is another substantial and nourishingfour-course meal. It is a subtle and redemptive dramathat explores the question of what makes a rewardinglife. The central story revolves around the brilliant butfailed artist Julian Fichtner, who has arrived at middle agewith nothing to show for his life-long pursuit of pleasure,freedom and self-expression. After years of restlesswandering, Julian returns home in the hopes of givingmeaning to his existence by being near his 23 year-old

son—a young soldier who has no idea that Julian is his father. “On the one hand, the play is a powerful emotional drama about the desperate hunger for children,”wrote Michael Billington of The Guardian in 1985. “But on a deeper level the play is about lonely individuals haunted by some dream.”

Billington was writing in response to a 1985 London production featuring Anthony Hopkins and Colin Firth as father and son. The Sunday Telegraph called the play “a trulyremarkable piece of drama,” and Billington called theplay “extraordinary.”

Mint has commissioned a new translation from MargretSchaefer who has had two volumes of Schnitzler prosetranslations published in as many years, with a third coming next year. Night Games, which featured anintroduction by John Simon, was received with criticalacclaim in 2003, as was her second volume Desire andDelusions. Frederick Crews, author of two books onSchnitzler’s compatriot Freud, called “Schnitzler andSchaefer—a perfect marriage, made in Vienna .”Schaefer will collaborate on the text with Mint artisticdirector Jonathan Bank; Bank adapted the text for Farand Wide and directed the production—he will alsodirect The Lonely Way.

This haunting play has never been seen in New Yorkand was only produced in the U.S. once in 1931. The Theater Guild produced an out-of-town tryout inBaltimore and Washington, but when the leading manbroke his leg plans to bring the play to New York wereshelved. 101 years after it was first written, Mint willgive New York theatergoers their first chance ever tosee this Schnitzler masterpiece.

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) was oneof the most famous of all of the greatpersonalities in Vienna at the turn of thelast century. Schnitzler wrote over twenty-five plays in addition to numerous stories,novellas and novels. From before 1900until 1925, Schnitzler was more talkedabout, and his plays were more performedon the stages of Germany and Austria thanany other writer.

In 1903, the year before the premiere ofThe Lonely Way, Schnitzler married OlgaGussmann, an actress and singer twentyyears younger than he was, and they had a son and a daughter.

Sigmund Freud wrote Schnitzler a letter in1922, in honor of his sixtieth birthday,describing the writer as his artistic doppel-ganger. “Whenever I am absorbed in oneof your beautiful creations I invariablyseem to find beneath their poetic surfacethe very suppositions, interests, and conclusions that are also mine…I haveformed the impression that you knowthrough intuition…everything that I havediscovered by laborious work on other people.”

Schnitzler was both a Jew and a critic of the Austrian Monarchy, which contributed tothe censorship of his work in his lifetime,and by the Nazi’s after his death. His work ultimately suffered the same fate as theViennese culture that he was describing andvanished into obscurity after Word War I.

“If previous ages tended blindly to ignoretheir geniuses,” writes John Simon, “ours isall too ready to crown as genius the nearesttrendy hack. One of the very few mastersnot fully acknowledged even posthumouslyis the Viennese playwright-fiction writerArthur Schnitzler.”

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