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Performance times: Tues., Wed. & Thurs. at 7:00 PM; Fri. & Sat. at 8:00 PM; Sat. & Sun. at 2:00 PM. With two additional Sunday evening performances at 7:00 PM on June 8th and June 15th.

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For Groups of 15 or more: Call (212) 315-9434 and speak to Ted Altschuler about group rates.

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• $19.00 for performances: June 7th – June 22nd • $30 for performances: June 24th – July 13th

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JONATHAN BANKArtistic Director

Presents

With

MIKEL SARAH LAMBERTJODIE LYNNE MCCLINTOCK

ANGELA REEDPETER RUSSOGARETH SAXE

Set Design: BILL CLARKELighting Design: JEFF NELLIS

Costume Design: HOLLY POE DURBINProperties Specialist: JUDI GURALNICK

Dialect Coach: AMY STOLLERProduction Stage Manager:

SAMONE B. WEISSMANAssistant Stage Manager:

NAME HEREPress Representative:

DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATESGraphic Design: JUDE DVORAK

By D.H. LAWRENCEDirected by MARTIN L. PLATT

PERFORMANCES BEGIN JUNE 7THTo order tickets call (212) 315-0231or order on-line at www.minttheater.org

S P E C I A L P O S T S H O W E V E N T S :

SATURDAY, JUNE 7TH (following the matinee)Artistic director Jonathan Bank, director Martin Platt anddialect coach Amy Stoller will take your questions.

TUESDAY, JUNE 10THArtistic director Jonathan Bank and the Cast will take yourquestions.

SATURDAY, JUNE 14TH (following the matinee)Dr. Eleanor Green, President-elect of the D.H. LawrenceSociety, North America will speak about Lawrence and takeyour questions.

SUNDAY, JUNE 22ND (following the matinee)Dr. Shirley Glass, psychologist, leading specialist onrelationships and the author of Not Just Friends will offermarriage counseling to the characters from The Daughter-in-Law and speak about her book and her work as well astake your questions.

A.A. MILNE MEETS JANE AUSTEN!Please show your support for the Mint and join us for a very special benefit reading of:

A.A. Milne’s dramatization of Pride and Prejudice

Featuring: The wit and wisdom of Jane Austen. The warmth andwhimsy of A.A. Milne all brought to life by an “All-Star” Cast.

One performance only on Monday June 16th, 7:00 PMat the Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher St.

Tickets:$150 for front seating and an invitation to a special reception.$75 Orchestra seating $40 Balcony seatingYour donation is tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

Returning to the Mint this fall: Arthur Schnitzler’s

“One of the twentieth century’s greatest plays and a masterpiece by any standard.”

-John Simon, NY Magazine

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”“Quite extraordinary; it is one of the great British dramas of the 20th century. - Michael Billington,The Guardian

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see “one of the best plays of the 20th century.”- The Tribune

Mint Theater Company, “that truffle hound of half-buriedtreasures from the past,” has a celebrated reputation forexcavating such worthy but neglected treasures as ArthurSchnitzler’s Far and Wide and Granville Barker’sThe Voysey Inheritance.

This June, join discerning theatergoers for novelist D.H.Lawrence’s powerful 1913 play, presented by the award-winning Mint Theater - New York’s Premier TheatricalRestoration Company.

“A bonafide neglected masterpiece.”-The Spectator

“One of the best plays of the 20th century.”-The Tribune

“This is an enormously rewarding play.”-The Daily Telegraph

“A right, rare treat.”-The Evening Standard

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By D.H. LAWRENCE

By D.H. Lawrence

“I never even knew that D.H. Lawrence wrote plays!”

That’s why the Mint is here—to introduceyou to the greatest plays you’ve never heardof. Beginning on June 7th, we will be pre-senting Lawrence’s remarkable domesticdrama for a limited run. Our last production(Far and Wide) was a complete sell-out, soorder your tickets now or you may miss out!

The Daughter-in-Law was unknown to allbut the most diligent of scholars until 1965,when a complete edition of Lawrence’splays was issued for the first time. A fewyears later The Royal Court produced threeof his plays, including the world premiere ofThe Daughter-in-Law. There have beensubsequent British productions, butLawrence the playwright is virtuallyunknown in the United States. The mostrecent London production was in the fall of2002 at the Young Vic and the criticalreception was fervent:

“This isn’t just a good drama, it is a greatone,” writes Michael Wright in The SundayTimes, “one that turns the intimate domesticworld of a Nottinghampshire mining familyinside out, and reveals—behind the coaldust and the lust—the fragile beating ofthe human heart.” Michael Billingtonof The Guardian found the play “quiteextraordinary; it is one of the great Britishdramas of the 20th century. What makesthis an exceptional play,” Billington states,“is the effortless way Lawrence combinesdomestic with social, economic and politicalrealism.” Toby Young, writing in TheSpectator, calls the play “a bonafideneglected masterpiece” and Alexs Sierz ofThe Tribune seconds this opinion,pronouncing The Daughter-in-Law “one ofthe best plays of the 20th century.”

The Daughter-in-Law was written in 1911,when Lawrence was still a schoolteacher inCroydon. Set against the background of apit strike, it tells the story of LutherGascoigne, a young miner, and his newlywed wife Minnie, a former governess. Thetensions and misunderstandings they sufferas a result of their different backgrounds areexacerbated by the powerful influence ofLuther’s mother, and brought to open

conflict when it is discovered that Luther,before his marriage, has made anotherwoman pregnant.

“A bonafide neglectedmasterpiece.”

The tone is highly naturalistic, the speechidiomatic and colorful, full of vitality,passion, and humor. In style and substance,Lawrence was far ahead of his own time,and there is uncanny modernity of the play’sthemes, particularly those which examinethe politics of sexual relationships, andbitter industrial strife.

In his book Changing Stages; Richard Eyrecalls The Daughter-in-Law a “blinding mas-terpiece.” In a recent article he elaborated:“The Daughter-in-Law isn’t the work of anovelist idly and patronizingly turning hishand to playwrighting; it is immenselyskilled...Lawrence has a concern that is veryrare in playwrights: a love of the physical,the way that men and women use theirbodies to work, wash, eat, touch or avoideach other.”

“One can readily understand why man-agements rejected it in 1913,” writesCharles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph, “forits authentic, deeply felt unpatronisingportrait of working-class life would havebeen almost inconceivable on the snobbish,strait-laced stages of the day.”

Lawrence was frustrated by his inability tofind a producer willing to take a chance onhim. “I believe that just as an audience wasfound in Russia for Chekhov, so an audiencemight be found in England for some of mystuff, if there were a man to whip ‘em in.It’s the producer that is lacking, not theaudience.” Mint Theater Company is just theproducer that Lawrence was lacking, andwe are thrilled to bring you this powerfuldrama for a limited run beginning June 7th.Don’t miss out on “one of the best plays ofthe 20th century.”

David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. He is bestknown as the author of Sons and Lovers,The Rainbow, Women in Love and thenotorious Lady Chatterley’s Lover, whichwas considered to be obscene and widelybanned; remarkably, the novel was notlegally available in England until 1960.Many of Lawrence’s works, including TheDaughter-in-Law, are set in the Eastwoodof his childhood, where he grew up thethird son of a coal miner.

“Even more than in the case of otherintensely autobiographical authors,” writesbiographer Harry T. Moore, “Lawrence'slife helps to illuminate his writings.”Lawrence’s most widely read novel, Sonsand Lovers is an autobiographical accountof his youth and was written at the sametime as The Daughter-in-Law, which alsoplumbs the conflict between mother andlover.

D. H. Lawrence was a brilliant and oftendifficult man. Few modern writers havebeen as strikingly original or as controversial.Few have inspired such passionateadmiration and such committed opposition.

Lawrence is the author of eight full-lengthplays, none of which he ever saw on stagein his lifetime. The Daughter-in-Law,arguably Lawrence’s best play, was availablein print for the first time in 1965. In 1968,The Royal Court produced The Daughter-in-Law along with The Widowing of Mrs.Holroyd and A Collier’s Friday Night, allunder the direction of Peter Gill, and theprocess of establishing Lawrence’s reputationas a great playwright was begun, nearlyforty years after his death. Over the lastthree and a half decades that reputationh a s g r o w n , a n d a p p r e c i a t i o n f o rLawrence’s gifts as a dramatist is nowundeniable.

ByD.H. LAWRENCE