Billy Crudup’s Acclaimed Stage Performance of Harry Clarke Now Available as an Audible Play
January 23 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Audible Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of
downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, today
announced the release of Obie-award winner David Cale’s Harry
Clarke, a sexually charged and wickedly funny thriller starring
Tony Award-winning actor Billy Crudup. This critically acclaimed,
riveting one-man play, which was performed live at New York’s
Vineyard Theatre until December 23rd, is now available for download
at www.audible.com/harryclarke.
Harry Clarke is the story of a shy Midwestern man leading an
outrageous double life as the cocky Londoner of the title. Moving
to New York City and presenting himself as an Englishman, he charms
his way into a wealthy family’s life as the seductive and
precocious Harry, and his increasingly risky and dangerous behavior
threatens to undo more than his persona.
This inaugural Audible Theater project, a collaboration between
Audible and the Vineyard Theatre to cast and produce the stage play
before recording and making it available to Audible listeners, is
part of Audible’s larger effort to identify and nurture playwrights
and expose outstanding performances of their works to millions of
listeners on Audible.
“This Audible production of Harry Clarke allows an entirely new
audience of listeners to enjoy a uniquely intimate experience of
this wonderful play,” said Dave Blum, Editor-in-Chief of Audible
Originals. “It also enables theatergoers lucky enough to attend the
show in person to relive Billy Crudup’s unforgettable tour de force
anytime, anywhere.”
“I’m absolutely thrilled that through Audible performances of my
work can be captured and preserved, and now have the potential of
reaching such a larger audience of people who may not have had
access to my plays and performances before,” said Cale.
“The Vineyard’s world-premiere production of Harry Clarke was an
expression of our mission to nurture and produce new plays and
musicals that push the boundaries of what theatre can be and do,”
said Suzanne Appel, managing director of Vineyard Theatre. “We are
thrilled that with Audible’s release of the audio play, audiences
beyond the Vineyard will have access to this riveting story and to
Billy Crudup’s incredible performance. We hope listening to the
audio play inspires more people to check out great live theatre and
to seek out other new play experiences.”
As an added bonus, the audio production also includes David
Cale’s Obie Award-winning solo play, Lillian, performed by the
author. Lillian – as described by the New York Times – “is a
luminous embodiment of the ineffable in life, a reminder that even
the most mundane existence is shaped by currents beyond
comprehension,” and is a perfect companion character to the
enigmatic Harry Clarke.
With a 30-day membership trial at Audible, new listeners can
enjoy any one audiobook, including this performance of Harry
Clarke, free.
Among the acclaimed performers who have narrated works of
literature for Audible are Zachary Quinto, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lily
Collins, Emma Thompson, and Jesse Eisenberg. Audible Studios has
won a Grammy Award, for its production of Janis Ian’s memoir
Society’s Child, and has also been recognized with the Audie Award
for Audiobook of the Year, for Colin Firth’s performance of Graham
Greene’s The End of the Affair. Audible invented and commercialized
the first digital audio player in 1997, and has since been at the
forefront of the explosively growing audiobook download segment. In
2016, Audible members downloaded an average of more than 17 books
over the course of the year. More than half of new Audible members
are first-time audiobook buyers.
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio content, offering customers a new way to enhance and enrich
their lives every day. Audible was created to unleash the emotive
music in language and the habituating power and utility of verbal
expression. Audible content includes more than 400,000 audio
programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters,
entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business
information providers. Audible is also the provider of spoken-word
audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store.
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