UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

• Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide: Mar 11-14, 2010

Originally produced in New York City
by New York Theatre Workshop with the support of Dartmouth College.

For its off-Broadway debut, ERS tackles one of American literature's most daunting challenges: the first chapter of William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury. That chapter, April Seventh, 1928, is told from the point of view of Benjy Compson. Mute and mentally handicapped, Benjy cannot distinguish between past and present. He free-associates his way through his family's troubled past and longs for his lost sister.

With the same radical commitment ERS showed in its groundbreaking staging of Gatz, ERS embraces Faulkner's language and his multilayered narrative. An eerily timeless family living room is the setting for the company's romp through this dark story. With humor, pathos and a shot of high-energy choreography, the ensemble brings this infamous literary masterpiece to life on stage.

Support provided by REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater.)

"Hypnotic ... a magical opportunity."
Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"A stunning act of literary transmutation."
David Cote, Time Out New York

PAST PERFORMANCES

• Jun 2009 Vienna Festival, Vienna

• Jun 2009 Holland Festival, Amsterdam

• Jan 2009 Culturgest, Lisbon

• Oct 2008 REDCAT, Los Angeles

• Apr-Jun 2008 New York Theatre Workshop, NYC

PRESS

Expresso-Actual January 24th, 2009
The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) by Joao Carneiro

Publico 20 January 2009
Flowing with the Flux by Rita Martins

The New Yorker 26 May 2008
Intruder in the Wings: A staging of William Faulkner's 'The Sound and the Fury.' by Hilton Als

The New Yorker 5 May 2008
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Novel Approach by Hilton Als

The New York Times 30 Apr 2008
Faulkner's Haunted Family, Moving in and Out of Time by Ben Brantley

Time Out New York (Feature) 30 Apr 2008
Authorial Intense by Helen Shaw

Time Out New York (Review) 30 Apr 2008
The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) by David Cote

The New York Sun 30 Apr 2008
Elevator Repair Service's 'The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)' by Eric Grode

International Herald Tribune 29 Apr 2008
Elevator Repair Service celebrates stream-of- consciousness

Backstage 29 Apr 2008
The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928): Elevator Repair Service at New York Theatre Workshop

Variety 28 Apr 2008
REVIEW: 'The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)' by Mark Blankenship

The New York Times 27 Apr 2008
They Did 'Gatsby.' But Can They Handle Faulkner? by Justin Bergman

Variety 25 Apr 2008
Elevator pushes buttons with 'Fury': N.Y. company's Faulkner adaptation bows in April by Sam Theilman

The Brooklyn Rail Apr 2008
Nothing But Novel: Elevator Repair Service Does Faulkner by Claire Epstein

The Village Voice 4 Mar 2008
Spring Theater Preview- 'The Sound and the Fury', An Idiot's Tale: ERS follows up Fitzgerald with Faulkner by Alexis Soloski

Variety 30 Nov 2007
NY theaters set stage for novel ideas by Mark Blankenship

CAST

• Mike Iveson
• Vin Knight
• Aaron Landsman (also Pete Simpson)
• Annie McNamara
• April Matthis (also Autumn Knight)
• Randolph Curtis Rand (also Jim Fletcher)
• Greig Sargeant
• Kate Scelsa
• Kaneza Schaal
• Susie Sokol
• Victoria Vazquez
• Ben Williams

• Directed by John Collins
• Assistant Director (2008) Rachel Chavkin
• Set by David Zinn
• Lights by Mark Barton
• Sound by Matt Tierney
• Costumes by Colleen Werthmann
• Projections by Eva von Schweinitz
• Dance Director Katherine Profeta
• Stage Manager Sarah Hughes
• Assistant Stage Manager (2008) Katie Farley
• Technical Direction Ben Williams
• Production Manager Brian Garber
• Company Manager Ariana Truman