Fri 2/17-Sun 3/5
British playwright Jez Butterworth wrote his play The River in 2012, but it hasn’t been seen in Cleveland. That’s about to change, thanks to Ensemble Theatre, which opens its production of the work this week.
“On a moonless night in August when the sea trout are ready to run, a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly-fishing since he was a boy,” the synopsis tells us. “But she’s not the only woman he has brought here — or indeed the last.”
It was the playwright’s first work since his 2009 play Jerusalem was a sell-out at London’s Royal Court Theatre so his eerie, elusive follow-up (whose 2014 New York version starred Hugh Jackman as the fisherman) attracted a lot of attention as well.
Ensemble’s production runs Fridays and Saturdays @ 7:30pm and Sunday @ 2pm through Sunday March 5 at the group’s home at Notre Dame College in South Euclid. Go here for tickets.
ensembletheatrecle.org/the-river