Pulitzer Prize-Winner Doug Wright Updates ‘Creditors’

Omar Metwally (left) as "Adolf" and T. Ryder Smith as "Gustav" in La Jolla Playhouse's world-premiere production of Creditors, adapted and directed by Doug Wright from the play by August Strindberg. (photo by Craig Schwartz)

La Jolla Playhouse presents the world premiere of Creditors, adapted and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) from the play by August Strindberg. A La Jolla Playhouse commission, Creditors opens Oct. 6 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre.

Adaptor/director Doug Wright (pictured right) gives August Strindberg’s Creditors a modern-day urgency in this compelling and savagely witty play. Two men — an artist and a mysterious stranger — strike up a seemingly innocent conversation at a seaside resort. As they exchange increasingly intimate perspectives on art, marriage and women — in particular, the artist’s wife — undercurrents of sexuality, language and economics explode into a tangled web of intrigue, suspicion and revenge in this gripping 19th century psychological thriller.

“We are so delighted to continue our long association with Doug Wright, whose acclaimed I Am My Own Wife inaugurated our Page To Stage program,” said La Jolla Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley. “Commissions represent a core component of our artistic mission, and we couldn’t be more excited to help originate Doug’s latest creation.”

Wright stated, “Creditors is Strindberg’s underappreciated masterpiece; on its surface, it’s a tautly structured thriller, but underneath its heart-pounding plot lies a rich, unsettling rumination on the toxicity of love.”

Creditors marks the 33rd play commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse. Commissions are a fundamental part of the Playhouse’s mission to advance theatre as an art form and provide unfettered creative opportunities for the leading artists of today and tomorrow. 

Creditors
Presented by the La Jolla Playhouse
Oct. 6-25
Tickets: $30-$65

In Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive
(Located on the UCSD Campus via the Revelle Entrance)
Box Office: (858) 550-1010
Online: lajollaplayhouse.com