December 21, 2011

Contact:
Lisa Murray
Development & PR Director
lmurray@peterboroughplayers.org
www.peterboroughplayers.org
(603) 924-9344 ext. 105

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Collaborators at Peterborough Players
London’s National Theatre Broadcasts New Play

Peterborough, NH (December 21, 2011) – London’s National Theatre will broadcast a new play by John Hodge, Collaborators, onto the Peterborough Players’ big screen on Saturday, January 14th, 1:00 pm. Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov, best known for his novel The Master and Margarita.

Moscow, 1938: a dangerous place to have a sense of humor or a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he’s offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Inspired by historical fact, Collaborators embarks on a surreal journey into the fevered imagination of the writer as he loses himself in a macabre and disturbingly funny relationship with the omnipotent subject of his drama.

John Hodge’s blistering new play depicts a lethal game of cat and mouse through which the appalling compromises and humiliations inflicted on any artist by those with power are held up to scrutiny. Alex Jennings plays Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale, Stalin.

National Theatre in HD – Collaborator – by John Hodge
Saturday, January 14th, 1:00 pm
Peterborough Players, 55 Hadley Rd., Peterborough 03458
$25 Adults, $20 Students
Box Office: (603) 924-7585 or online: www.peterboroughplayers.org

The Peterborough Players is handicapped accessible and is equipped with a hearing assistance system. Free parking available on site.

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The Peterborough Players, a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization, has been providing professional theatre to audiences since 1933. Peterborough Players, PO Box 118, 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough, NH 03458, (603) 924-9344, www.peterboroughplayers.org.

The Peterborough Players is sponsored in part by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation-Monadnock Region, the Shubert Foundation, Putnam Foundation, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, William D. Doeller Fund, and Actors’ Equity Foundation.