"Power of Sail" Extension Trailer

Power of Sail
Feb 8 - Mar 27, 2022
Geffen Playhouse
www.geffenplayhouse.org
Written by Paul Grellong
Directed by Weyni Mengesha
Produced with Daryl Roth
Featuring Hugo Armstrong, Amy Brenneman, Bryan Cranston, Donna Simone Johnson, Tedra Millan, Seth Numrich and Brandon Scott
Distinguished Harvard professor Charles Nichols (Emmy & Tony Award winner Bryan Cranston) finds himself in hot water after inviting an incendiary white nationalist to speak at his annual symposium. His colleagues are concerned, his students are in revolt, but Charles is undeterred in his plot to expose and academically thrash his invited guest. This profoundly relevant new play by Paul Grellong (The Boys, Manuscript) examines the insidiousness of hate disguised as free speech and the question of who ultimately pays the price.

[@samj5115]

Paul has written a play that is so relevant to our time and thought provoking. Worthy of the standing ovations the play receives nightly.

[@4rjohny5]

It looks very interesting. I wish we could watch a video recording of it. @Geffen Playhouse, is there somewhere online we can pay to watch the play?

[@nc3171]

Go see it If you haven't already this play is amazing. Bryan Cranston does an amazing job. The cast in this play are fantastic. It really makes you think and so relevant today.

[@audbawl]

I am excited to see this play! ✨

[@whatiswe]

Oooh sounds juicy! A Wonderful cast

[@GoldieHoffmanComedian]

Just saw this. Fanfuckingtastic!!- especially since I went in ‘totally fresh!’ which is the best if u can even still do it with plays/films. -The kind of play you’ll be thinking about and can discuss and debate for hrs. -Reminiscent of (an updated/more current) The Human Stain, and then some. -The kind of discussion we actually really need to be having, but still don’t seem know how to touch/ are too afraid to dig thru the thorniness involved, especially openly in public. -Funny, too, right when you need it. -Good complex characters, too - well… more so the men tbh. Swap the two PhD candidates with each other and voila, ‘fixed’! ;) But they weren’t bad per se, just that my personal lament is often preferring the male roles since I find women’s parts are often less fun, jovial, funny, nuanced/complex, intellectual, and ‘bad’/villainous. -and did I mention, Bryan fn Cranston in the flesh! (One of the few celeb ‘names’ who I think warrants such gushing over, and going to see something just because he’s in it. And proven again tonight) TL;dr: GO SEE THIS PLAY IF YOU CAN! Got shit ‘cheap’ tix on the side front and totally worth the neck cramp I’m feeling now. (Hey, that’s what pre-&-post-show vino’s for). --- PS: Need (yet another) understudy for Maggie?? I lived this shit at McGill! (Intl Studies & History dbl major lol - the classic path to comedy and acting, n’est-ce pas? But fr, I’m a good actor, reliable, and I can get off book in seconds. Oh, and I’m in LA (if it wasn’t obvious enough by this shameless self pitch, imagining that, maybe just maybe, the playwright/director/some other director putting this on is reading this and is actually charmed and not put off by such socially inept crude desperation.) And with that, gut shabbos/gut vuch y’all! 😘