Beginning June 10, the Philadelphia-based theater company The Wilma Theater, recipient of the 2024 Tony Award for Best Regional Theatre, presents the regional premiere of A Summer Day by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Jon Fosse, translated by Sarah Cameron Sunde.
Directed by inventive Co-Artistic Director Yury Urnov, the whimsical production weaves together mystery and magical realism as a woman investigates one day from her past, obsessively trying to understand what went wrong. The cast features Wilma HotHouse Acting Company members Krista Apple, Campbell O’Hare, Melanye Finister, Brett Ashley Robinson, and Ross Beschler, with Philadelphia-based actor Jaime Maseda. The regional premiere of A Summer Day runs from June 10 to 29, with 21 performances presented in the Wilma’s 300-seat theater.
Fosse is a Norwegian author and playwright who is one of the most internationally performed contemporary playwrights. While his plays have been presented on over a thousand stages worldwide, Fosse’s work is rarely produced in the United States. A Summer Day had only been presented once before in an Off-Broadway production at Cherry Lane Theatre in 2012, with film actress Karen Allen starring in the lead role.
Fosse knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat. He mixes genres like no one else. The play is simultaneously a suspenseful investigation story, an emotional drama, a piece of theater, poetry, and philosophy. – Wilma Co-Artistic Director Yury Urnov, who directs the upcoming regional premiere production of A Summer Day.
If You Go
- Previews from Tuesday, June 10, to Thursday, June 12.
- Invite-only performance on Friday, June 13, at 7 p.m.
- Runs through Sunday, June 29 at 265 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
- Tickets start at $35 and can be purchased at www.wilmatheater.org or by calling the box office at 215-546-7824.
- A Summer Day has an estimated 80-minute runtime with no intermission. The production is recommended for audiences 13 years or older.