Where do you draw the line between hurting another player and truly injuring them? Actor Ezra Knight (Frank) talks about the power of PLAYING THE ASSASSIN and the fine line football players walk when they step onto the field to do their job. PLAYING THE ASSASSIN must close Sunday, November 8. Click the link below to get your tickets today before it's too late! #PlayingtheAssassin #interview #dtc #football #theline

Previews for PLAYING THE ASSASSIN begin this Wednesday, October 21! In our last post, we connected with playwright David Robson to see what inspired him to write this emotionally charged production. Digging a little deeper, we asked Robson to answer a few more questions about the development of his play. Fight Director Christopher Plummer works with Garrett Lee Hendricks and Ezra Knight to create a realistic altercation during a rehearsal this past weekend. (Photo by DTC). Q:

Assassin began with an obituary. In the summer of 2010, I came across the death notice of former NFL safety Jack Tatum. The name alone evoked my youth and early football fanaticism. As a kid I’d been a Steelers fan and had a great fondness for my home team, the Eagles, too. Still, I knew Tatum, who’d played for the notorious Oakland Raiders, by reputation: In the 1970s, he was known as the league’s hardest hitter—a steam engine of a man—and a dirty player known to take cheap

“How will you be remembered?” asks the home page for the website of the current production at Hartford’s TheaterWorks, “Playing the Assassin.” David Robson’s 80-minute drama depicts a testosterone-charged encounter between two men in a hotel room; but the question is pertinent because the play was inspired by a 2010 obituary. Or, to be more precise, its headline: “Jack Tatum, Whose Tackle Paralyzed Player, Dies at 61.” “I was a huge football fan as a kid,” Mr. Robson said. “I