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Adding to a growing reputation for new local works, Fractured Actors Theater Company now brings to life John Logan's Tony Award-winning play, RED, starring Benjamin Colby Wilson and Michael Lie Murphy.

A visceral two-hander, RED features artist Mark Rothko at the height of his career. Viewed through the lens of his youthful new assistant, Ken, we witness Rothko at the pinnacle of his creativity, but struggling through the creation of a series of large paintings, commissioned as a series intended to feature in New York’s brand-new Four Seasons Restaurant. As Ken and Rothko paint, they challenge each other to ask big questions about art: what it takes to create it and what its role should be in the world. Set in the 1950s, and based on a series of real events, Red takes a compelling look at the ever-changing relationship between an artist and his creations.

Raw and provocative, RED is a searing portrait of an artist’s ambition and vulnerability as he tries to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.

Written by:  John Logan, Directed by: Karyn Noel

Fractured Actors Theater Company is based in Ventura, California and produces classical, experimental and original plays.

Past productions include Traveling Terrors, Laughter in Place, the Ventura County premiere of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Golden Age: A Speakeasy Project, The Foreigner, Freud’s Last Session, Arsenic and Old Lace and Inherit the Wind.

Fractured Actors Theater Company is committed to staging inspiring and thought-provoking theatrical experiences for a non-traditional theater audience. Fractured Actors operates out of Suite J of Liminal Church of Ventura. #NotAChurchPlay

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