MIRROR REPERTORY COMPANY RESUMES OPERATION WITH NEW PLAY AT 
ARCLIGHT THEATRE:

LEON POWNALLÕS
DO NOT GO GENTLE

OPENS APRIL 25TH - PREVIEWS BEGIN APRIL 22ND
LEADS FULL REPERTORY SEASON

The Mirror Repertory Co. will premiere Leon PownallÕs Do Not Go Gentle, a play about the 
famed and troubled poet Dylan Thomas with Geraint Wyn Davies in the starring role, on 
Monday, April 25th 2005 at the Arclight Theatre (152 west 71st St.) Previews begin April 22nd.

Do Not Go Gentle explores Dylan ThomasÕ addiction to booze, bawds, and that most potent drug 
of all: fame. It further explores Dylan's masochistic obsession with Shakespeare's writings. 
Geraint Wyn Davies who most recently seen in New York as Edmund in Lincoln CenterÕs 
production of King Lear, which starred Christopher Plummer, will play the booze addicted 
Dylan Thomas. He also recently played Cyrano de Bergerac for the Shakespeare Theatre in 
Washington DC, for which he was nominated for the prestigious Helen Hayes award. Mr. Wyn 
Davies is best known for his work in such television series as Forever Knight, Tracker, Airwolf 
and others, as well as film cameos.

Leon Pownall has an extensive list of stage credits as a playwright and actor in Canada and the 
United States. Currently he is writing a one man show called Robertson Davies Forever Jung.

The Mirror Repertory Company was founded in l983 by Sabra Jones Mc Ateer, Geraldine Page, 
Eva Le Gallienne, and John Strasberg. The late Laurance S. Rockefeller underwrote the company 
with a founding grant. It is an alternating Repertory Company in the classic sense, with a 
different production every night. Sabra Jones and Anthony D. Marshall produced Alice in 
Wonderland on Broadway as the company's first project, garnering a Tony nomination and 
giving Kate Burton her Broadway debut. It became a WNET 13 Masterworks film and starred 
Kate and her father Richard Burton. The Mirror Repertory Company past roster included 
Geraldine, Ellis Raab, and Elizabeth Franz, and Anthony Hopkins. The current company 
includes Austin Pendleton, F. Murray Abraham, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Steven Weber, 
Enrico Colantoni, Maxwell Caulfield, Juliet Mills, Michael Moriarty, Tovah Feldshuh, and many 
others.

The Company produced sixteen plays in rep and fifteen regionally and has a highly regarded 
Arts in Education Program. Last season Mirror produced EDGE in London and the show was 
produced here in New York by Daryl Roth. This production at the Arclight marks the company's 
return to New York City.

Performances of Do Not Go Gentle will be on Wed. Ð Mon. at 8PM and Matinees are on Sunday 
at 3PM. Do Not Go Gentle will play six performances a week in rep with two performances of 
Lilia!, and two performances of Clurman.

The Mirror Repertory Company has scheduled two other productions to be played in rep with Do 
Not Go Gentle.

Lilia! is the story of Lilia Skala, the talented actress made famous by her Academy Award 
nominated turn in Lilies in the Field, as told through the eyes of her granddaughter, playwright 
and actress Libby Skala. The play tells of LiliaÕs amazing life as she grew to prominence as an 
actress in Austria, fleeing the Third Reich, and her arrival in America, where the only work she 
could find was in a zipper factory in New York, and finally found her way to her beloved 
profession on stage and in film.

Libby is a veteran of the New York stage and Hollywood herself (most recently appearing in the 
film Birth with Nicole Kidman).

Harold Clurman is known as "The Elder Statesman of American Theater", and the one-man play 
has been written and will be played by Ronald Rand, a former student of ClurmanÕs who 
resurrects the famous theatrical jack-of-all-trades and revered critic and teacher for one last 
lesson on passion. Clurman examines HaroldÕs rise from the lower East Side of Manhattan, to his 
education in Paris, his initiation into theater at the Provincetown Playhouse, and his founding of 
the Group Theater with friend Lee Strasberg (father -in-law of Mirror RepÕs Artistic Director) 
and future wife Stella. Ronald Rand, seasoned actor, playwright, and founder and editor of the 
theatrical paper Soul of the American Actor, brings the love for theater that Clurman embodied 
to the stage.

Performances of Lilia! are Tuesdays at 8PM and Wednesdays at 2PM. Performances of Clurman 
are Saturdays at 2PM and Sunday nights at 7PM.

On June 2 The Young Mirror will open Richard and Anne, a never before produced play by 
Maxwell Anderson dealing with the theory held by the great writer Josephine Tey among others, 
that Shakespeare much maligned the English King Richard lll, and that he was in actual fact a 
hero, a faithful husband and father, and well formed in face and body.   TWO CHILDREN from 
our ARTS IN ED program will also appear in this!

This will in play in rep with Do Not Go Gentle.  

There will also be two staged readings of ShakespeareÕs Richard lll starring Austin Pendleton 
(author of BroadwayÕs current hit about Orson Welles) and an all-star cast.  Come see this on 
June 14 and June 15 and compare Richard lll to Richard and Anne Ð which version is the truth?

Surprise guest stars!

Tickets are $30 and can be purchased by calling SmartTix at (212) 868-4444.