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SATURN RETURNS
West Coast Premiere
by Noah Haidle
October 23 - November 22, 2009
Segerstrom Stage

From the fertile brain of Noah Haidle, one of the brightest new voices in American theatre, comes 88-year-old Gustin.  He’s endearingly crabby and, according to his caregiver, perfectly healthy and in no need of care.  But there are echoes in Gustin’s home, echoes of the women he loved — and thought he couldn’t live without.  He steps into those echoes and takes the audience with him through three stages of his life, on an inventive journey that bends time and surprises at every turn.

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Kristen Bush and Graham Michael Hamilton in Saturn Returns. Photo courtesy of South Coast Repertory.		Conor O'Farrell, Graham Michael Hamilton, Kristen Bush and Nick Ullett in Saturn Returns. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.

Graham Michael Hamilton and Kristen Bush in Saturn Returns. Photo courtesy of South Coast Repertory.		Kristen Bush in Saturn Returns. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.

Kristen Bush and Nick Ullett in Saturn Returns. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.		Conor O'Farrell and Kristen Bush in Saturn Returns. Photo courtesy of South Coast Repertory.

Kristen Bush and Graham Michael Hamilton in Saturn Returns. Photo courtesy of South Coast Repertory.		Kristen Bush and Conor O'Farrell in Saturn Returns. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.		Nick Ullett in Saturn Returns. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.

Graham Michael Hamilton and Kristen Bush in Saturn Returns.  Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.

Playwright Noah Haidle. Photo courtesy of South Coast Repertory.		Conor O'Farrell, Nick Ullett, Kristen Bush and Graham Hamilton in Saturn Returns. Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.

Playwright Bio

Noah Haidle’s most recent play What is the Cause of Thunder opened at The Williamstown Theater Festival in July. His plays have been seen at Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, as well as others around the country and abroad. He has taught playwrighting at Princeton University, The Kennedy Center and in Kenya and Uganda as part of The Sundance Theatre Institute. He is a graduate of Princeton University and The Juilliard School, where he was a Lila Acheson Wallace playwright-in-residence.  He is the recipient of three Lincoln Center Le Compte Du Nuoy Awards, the 2005 Helen Merrill Award for emerging Playwrights, the 2007 Claire Tow Award, and an NEA/TCG theatre residency grant. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.