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About Spain
Roll camera! See Tony Award nominee Marin Ireland, Tony winner Andrew Burnap, and more in Jen Silverman's world-premiere play Spain, where film and stage meet — as do art and propaganda, information and disinformation, and ambition and money. Get Spain tickets on TodayTix and watch it all unfold.
It's 1936. Two young filmmakers have the opportunity of a lifetime: to make a grand Spanish Civil War film that will singlehandedly shift American public opinion. With such an admirable goal, and so much passion and love the filmmakers have toward the film, does it truly matter that the KGB is paying for it all?
We can tell you Silverman's play is seductive, thought-provoking, slick, and unmissable — but if the play has one message, it's that the only way to know what's true is to find out for yourself. So get tickets to Spain off Broadway now.
Run time
1h 30m (no intermission)
Venue
Categories
Start date
November 8th, 2023
End date
December 17th, 2023
Spain cast and creative team
By: Jen Silverman
Director: Tyne Rafaeli
Producer: Second Stage Theater
Cast list: Marin Ireland, Zachary James, Erik Lochtefeld, Andrew Burnap, Danny Wolohan
Design: Dane Laffrey
Costumes: Alejo Vietti
Lighting: Jen Schriever
Sound: Daniel Kluger
Venue
Accessibility
Elevator access, wheelchair access
More information about Spain
The cast of Spain includes five Broadway veterans: Tony winner Andrew Burnap (The Inheritance), Tony nominee Marin Ireland (Reasons to Be Pretty), Zachary James, Erik Lochtefeld, and Danny Wolohan.
Playwright Jen Silverman has had three prior plays off Broadway since 2011: Crane Story, The Moors, and Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties, which earned a 2019 Drama League Award nomination for Outstanding Production of a Play.
For Spain in New York, Silverman teams up with director Tyne Rafaeli, who has directed eight Off-Broadway shows in six years. Spain is her Second Stage debut, but she's directed shows for Lincoln Center Theater, Classic Stage Company, and Playwrights Horizons.
Second Stage is a theatre company exclusively dedicated to producing shows by living playwrights in its one Broadway and two Off-Broadway theatres.
What to watch for
- Spain takes place at the onset of the Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939. Historians have called it the "dress rehearsal" for World War II, as multiple other countries got involved in some way.
- Most of the characters in the play are fictional, but real-life author Ernest Hemingway is a character in Spain. He's known for writing about war — his classic novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is inspired by his coverage of the Spanish Civil War.
- The KGB operated for close to 40 years while the Soviet Union was in effect. It was a security organization designed to advance the agenda of the then-ruling Communist party, which included closely monitoring and manipulating media.
- Like a movie, Spain has a score, even though it's not a musical. Daniel Kluger composed original music for the play.
- Two years before Spain, Rafaeli staged Selling Kabul, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated play set amid the U.S.-Afghanistan war.
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