Sandra Oh To Play Paulina In 'Death And The Maiden' - Theater

Yesterday, Sandra Oh hinted in an interview that she will be doing a play "in a year or so", and today the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago could confirm that they will be setting up a production of 'Death and the Maiden' by Ariel Dorfman with Sandra Oh as the lead character, Paulina. The production will run between Jun 13 - Jul 13, 2014 and will be directed by Chey Yew.

Here's more info about the play courtesy of the Victory Gardens Theater:

Ariel Dorfman ’s explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a rocky new democracy. Gerardo has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by a kind doctor. Sandra Oh (the award-winning star of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy) plays Gerardo’s wife, Paulina, who thinks she recognizes the doctor as the man who tormented her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before. A riveting, haunting play about revenge, trauma and forgiveness..

Sandra Oh At Public Theater's 50th Anniversary Gala - Photos

Pics of Sandra Oh as she arrives at Delacorte Theater for the 50th anniversary of the New York City summer tradition Shakespeare in the Park, on June 18, 2012 in New York City.

Sandra participated in a special reading of Romeo and Juliet, starring Kevin Kline as Romeo and Meryl Streep as Juliet. 

Photos: Zimbio.com

Sandra Oh Joins Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline for Public Theater's 'Romeo and Juliet' Reading

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Shakespeare in the Park, a gala with a special one-night-only reading of Romeo and Juliet - featuring Kevin Kline as Romeo and Meryl Streep as Juliet - will be held on Monday, June 18 at Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, New York.

Sandra Oh will participate in the reading as Lady Montague, Romeo's mother. Lady Montague appears twice in the play, in act one and act three.

In addition to Sandra and the mighty Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, Theater Mania reports that the reading will feature these cool people in the following roles:

Murray Abraham (Friar Laurence), Christine Baranski (Nurse), John Cullum (Capulet), Raúl Esparza (Sampson, Apothecary, Watchman 1), David Harbour (Abraham, Capulet Servant, Paris' Page), Bill Irwin (Montague), Jesse L. Martin (Gregory, Friar John, Watchman 2), Sandra Oh (Lady Montague), Phylicia Rashad (Lady Capulet), Jerry Stiller (Peter), Michael Stuhlbarg (Paris), Christopher Walken (Mercutio), Sharon Washington (Stage Directions), Sam Waterston (Benvolio), and Jeffrey Wright (Tybalt), along with an on-stage band playing the music of Jeanine Tesori.

The Anniversary Gala serves to honour Al Pacino for his work with the Public Theater. The evening will also include "dinner al fresco and a party immediately following the performance". The tickets start at $1500. Click here for more information.

Sandra Oh Attends The Premiere Of "Poor Behavior"

Sandra Oh with actors Joanna Day, Chad Coleman and Reg Rodgers at the opening night performance of 'Poor Behavior' at Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum on September 18, 2011 in Los Angeles.

Sandra Oh and Joanna Day co-starred together in the play Satellites by Diana Son in 2006.

In The Sight Of Red, Red, Red. Red Blood.

Random pic of the week:

Sandra Oh as Adela in the play The House Of Bernarda in Los Angeles, in July 2002.

Said about Sandra's performance in a review in Variety:

Below the main platform on three sides are pits of red gravel, and when characters step into these areas, we know they're being overwhelmed by their passion.

The character who feels most at home in the blood-red part of the set is Adela, the youngest of the daughters and the object of the desired young man's lust if not his courtship. Sandra Oh delivers a superb, physically expressive performance: She's a woman incapable of holding back her sexual passion, and most at risk of becoming like her grandmother Maria Josefa (an outstanding, white-wigged Tsai Chin), an insane elderly woman whom Bernarda keeps locked up.

Madness

Random pic of the day:

Sandra Oh in the play Mad Forest in 1992 at the National Theatre School in Canada.

Photo: André Lecoz