April 25 - May 17:
Thurs-Sat @ 8pm

The Milagro Theater
@ the CSV Cultural Center:
"The incubator of the arts in NYC"

107 Suffolk Street (Map)
No Wheelchair Access

Use coupon code MLIST for $14 tix
(Valid until May 11)

"[A] great deal of fun, thanks to the exquisitely smart script by Kiran Rikhye, the fluent and exciting staging offered by Stancato, some terrific performances...and a nifty set by David Bengali that—at its finest, depicting the deck of a pirate ship—is absolutely stunning...The Accidental Patriot is the most ambitious project yet for the still-young Stolen Chair Theatre Company. Resident playwright Kiran Rikhye's writing continues to astonish in its skillfulness and versatility and humor. Her co-artistic director Jon Stancato flexes his muscles as one of his generation's most imaginative and daring directors...[I]n terms of both audacity and entertainment value it's a fine example of indie theater at its best...and a harbinger of still greater things to come from this remarkable troupe."
-Martin Denton, NYtheatre.com

The Accidental Patriot is the third installment of Stolen Chair's CineTheatre Tetralogy, an original 1930s-style swashbuckler (as Sophocles might have written it if he’d been under contract to Warner Brothers), set against the tumultuous backdrop of the American Revolution.  This mash-up of Greek tragedy and Errol Flynn-era pirate films features both rapier duels and rapier wit as it satirizes heroism, patriotism, altruism, and all of the other flimsy –isms that move us to action.

Listen to director Jon Stancato as he is interviewed on East Village Radio

Photos by Carrie Leonard, 2008

With a cast of eighteen, live music, and even a high seas naval battle, The Accidental Patriot is the largest scale project we’ve ever conceived.   It is also at least twice as expensive as our entire 5th season, in large part because we finally have the resources to begin paying our artistic collaborators for their work.

Box office income contributes only 1/4 of our operating budget.  Though support from the city and the state allows us to dream bigger, we still depend upon your support to transform our dreams into reality. We set an ambitious fundraising goal of $10,000 for this show and are only inches away from achieving it, but we'll need your help...

We hope you’ll consider offering your support for one of NYC’s most innovative independent theatre companies and make a tax-deductible donation today!