The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Adapted For The Theatre by Christopher Carter Sanderson
“You’ve taken Rand’s novel, and the Warner Bros film, and made it into a piece of theatre with a quick pace, strong forward momentum—and one that carries to the fore Rand’s impassioned ideas about the individual, originality, and integrity (in life and in art). There’s great clarity to your work here. Undoubtedly, the question of the individual versus the collective is always in the air.” —James Bundy, Artistic...
“You’ve taken Rand’s novel, and the Warner Bros film, and made it into a piece of theatre with a quick pace, strong forward momentum—and one that carries to the fore Rand’s impassioned ideas about the individual, originality, and integrity (in life and in art). There’s great clarity to your work here. Undoubtedly, the question of the individual versus the collective is always in the air.” —James Bundy, Artistic Director, Yale Rep, Dean, Yale School of Drama
In a taught, 90-minute tale, Ayn Rand's iconic story of Howard Roark, a young architect who makes his way through the moribund world of the ordinary and accepted on his own rigorous terms, unfolds in the best possible way to show that story for the allegory it was meant to be. Rand's background as a Broadway playwright comes to the fore as the bones of the story carry it well. Ideally suited for a Black actor and actress to play the lead roles and make the controversial yet powerful statement that the individual is where society's value is expressed.