Mint Theater continues FREE streaming of acclaimed productions: HINDLE WAKES with Jeremy Beck, Rebecca Noelle Brinkley, Emma Geer, Jonathan Hogan more
Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:37 pm EST 01/13/25

THE MINT THEATER COMPANY

“This is a paean to women's sexual freedom from a time before they even had the right to vote.” – New York Times

“I'm thrilled to discover at long last so unjustly forgotten a playwright, and eager to see more of his work. Not only was Houghton an artist of exceptional skill, but Hindle Wakes, his last play, is a study of provincial hypocrisy in Vicwardian England that crackles with a biting candor fully worthy of George Bernard Shaw. – Wall Street Journal

Mint Theater

Continues FREE Streaming

of Their Acclaimed Productions

Next Up:

Hindle Wakes

by Stanley Houghton

Directed by Gus Kaikkonen

Beginning January 20th

Mint Theater Company (Jonathan Bank, Producing Artistic Director) will return to live performances in February with the New York Premiere of Garside's Career by Harold Brighouse, directed by Matt Dickson.

But before that, Mint is offering FREE streaming of their archival recording of Hindle Wakes by Stanley Houghton, beginning January 20th. Hindle Wakes is available at Mint's virtual theater, MintTheater.org, until March 16th only! Admission is FREE.

Mint has been investing in creating professionally shot and edited full-length archival videos since 2013. No Zoom boxes or Computer-Generated Imagery, these are professional quality, high-definition, three-camera recordings of live performances, captured in the theater with live audiences. “If you've never seen a Mint show, I can assure you that the company's special qualities come through on video,” said Terry Teachout in The Wall Street Journal.

Jonathan Bank explains: “When we began streaming past productions in 2020, the overwhelming response from our viewers was, 'Please don't stop.' We listened. Today, Mint serves two distinct audiences: those who experience our plays live and those, from across the country and beyond, who enjoy our productions through our recorded performances. In 2025, for the first time, we're thrilled to engage both audiences simultaneously with a theatrical pairing as rich and satisfying as a Lancashire Hotpot. Garside's Career and Hindle Wakes both originated at Annie Horniman's groundbreaking Manchester Repertory Theatre. Authors Harold Brighouse and Stanley Houghton were friends and colleagues.

"At Mint, we believe in deepening appreciation for playwrights by revisiting their works. Teresa Deevy, Arthur Schnitzler, George Kelly, and Rachel Crothers are just a few who've benefited from this commitment. Our growing catalog of recorded plays allows us to forge new connections—like this celebration of Annie Horniman, a visionary producer and benefactor who helped shape modern drama over a century ago. Past Mint productions first staged at her Manchester Repertory Theatre include Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse and The Price of Thomas Scott by Elizabeth Baker,” said Mr. Bank.

Hindle Wakes premiered in 1912, the same year as the coal-strike that inspired the events of The Daughter-in-Law , written in 1913. Stanley Houghton (February 22nd 1881–December 10th 1913) was a prominent member, together with Harold Brighouse (Garside's Career) and Allan Monkhouse (author of Mary Broome, produced by the Mint in 2012), of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists. Hindle Wakes, produced by the Mint in 2017, is his best known play. He also wrote a number of unpublished plays. Like Garside's Career, both plays find drama in a society on the brink of great change.

Gus Kaikkonen directs a cast that features “the appealing Jeremy Beck” (New York Times) and “the formidable Jonathan Hogan” (New Yorker), along with Rebecca Noelle Brinkley, Emma Geer, Sara Carolynn Kennedy, Ken Marks, Brian Reddy, Sandra Shipley and Jill Tanner.

Reviewing the Mint production in 2018 for The New York Times, Laura Collins-Hughes wrote that Hindle Wakes “is a play about class, ambition and self-determination, but it's even more concerned with the suffocating effects of paternalism,” making it the perfect companion piece for the Mint's upcoming mainstage production, Garside's Career, which also tackles class, ambition and self-determination. The late Michael Feingold wrote in the Village Voice said “...the revival, directed by Gus Kaikkonen, reaffirms the play as both well worth knowing in itself and particularly resonant in today's political climate.”

Garside's Career tells the story of Peter Garside's soaring flight from working engineer to member of Parliament, propelled by a ‘silver tongue' and an insatiable fascination with his power to persuade: “You don't know the glorious sensation of holding a crowd in the hollow of your hand, mastering it, doing what you like with it.” Peter's fiancé knows the danger of Peter's fascination, “The itch to speak is like the itch to drink, except that it's cheaper to talk yourself tipsy.” Performances begin February 1st.

ABOUT MINT THEATER COMPANY

"Of all the countless Off-Broadway troupes with which the side streets of Manhattan are dotted, none has a more distinctive mission — or a higher artistic batting average — than the Mint Theater Company, which 'finds and produces worthwhile plays from the past that have been lost or forgotten.' I've never seen a production there that was a sliver less than superb. Rachel Crothers's Susan and God, John Galsworthy's The Skin Game, Harley Granville-Barker's The Madras House, N.C. Hunter's A Day by the Sea, Dawn Powell's Walking Down Broadway, Jules Romains's Doctor Knock , John Van Druten's London Wall: All these fine plays and others just as good have been exhumed by the Mint to memorable effect in the 13 years that I've been reviewing the company, a tribute to the uncanny taste and unfailing resourcefulness of Jonathan Bank, the artistic director," said Terry Teachout in the Wall Street Journal. Mint was awarded an OBIE Award for “combining the excitement of discovery with the richness of tradition” and a special Drama Desk Award for “unearthing, presenting and preserving forgotten plays of merit.”

For more information, including photos and videos of all previous Mint productions, visit minttheater.org.
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