THE NAKED EYE

(was "The Naked Truth")
by Paul Rudnick
directed by Christopher Ashley

Sets by Derek McLane
Costumes by Catherine Zuber
Lighting by Don Holder
Sound by Christopher Walker

Take a photographer modeled on Robert Mapplethorpe (only funnier), stir in his lesbian assistant who rages at people who use bad French, mix with an uptight senator campaigning for President, his socially prominent wife, his finishing-school daughter, and his gorgeously vacant mistress (a former Playboy Miss August, and you get The Naked Eye - a farce for the '90s about the collision of art, sex, society and politics. Part comedy of manners, part over-the-top cartoon, The Naked Eye is the latest work by one of this country's most admired young playwrights, best known for his hugely successful comedies I Hate Hamlet and Jeffrey (recently released as a major motion picture).

This production was performed May 10 - July 10, 1996 at the Loeb Drama Center, in repertory with Long Day's Journey Into Night, with the following cast:

	Nan Bemiss MARY BETH PEIL* Mumbali Keefer PAMELA HART Alex DelFlavio NEIL MAFFIN* Katrin Dowling FRANCINE TORRES* Marcus Dowling THOMAS DERRAH * Pete Bemiss JEREMY GEIDT* Sissy Bemiss Darnley J. SMITH CAMERON * Lynette CHERYL KENAN
*member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
In photo, above: Mary Beth Piel, Sheryl Kenan, Jeremy Geidt, Pamela Hart. In photo, below: Thomas Derrah, Francine Torres, Neil Maffin.
- A.R.T. News Interview - Program Notes - Buy the poster! This page updated December 18, 1996