Κίφερ Σάδερλαντ: πρώτη θεατρική εµφάνιση

• Την πρώτη του θεατρική εµφάνιση ετοιµάζεται να κάνει ο Κίφερ Σάδερλαντ πρωταγωνιστώντας στο δράµα «That Championship Season» (1972) του Τζέισον Μίλερ. Ο ηθοποιός που αναστήθηκε επαγγελµατικά χάρη στον πράκτορα Τζακ Μπάουερ του «24» θα συµπρωταγωνιστεί µε τον Κρις Νοθ, τον «Mr Big» του «Sex and the City», αλλά και µε τους Μπράιαν Κοξ, Τζιµ Γκάφιγκαν και Τζέισον Πάτρικ. Το έργο αφορά την επανένωση τεσσάρρων πρώην παικτών του µπάσκετ µε τον προπονητή τους, 20 χρόνια µετά την κατάκτηση του πρωταθλήµατος από την κολλεγιακή οµάδα στην οποία έπαιζαν. Εργο και συγγραφέας απέσπασαν το 1973 βραβεία Tony και Pulitzer. 

Kiefer-Sutherland

• That Championship Season (1972), a play by Jason Miller. [ Public Theatre, 844 perf.; Pulitzer Prize, Tony, NYDCC Awards.] Four former high school basketball players have come to the home of their old coach (Richard A. Dysart) for a reunion. Their championship season would seem to have been but the beginning of successful careers for them, but appearances are deceiving. George Sikowski (Charles Durning) has become a corrupt but ineffective politician; Tom Daley (Walter McGinn), a cynical alcoholic; Phil Romano (Paul Sorvino), a ruthless, lecherous strip miner and womanizer; and James Daley (Michael McGuire), a failed high school administrator with futile dreams of success in politics.

• The absence of the fifth player on the team also says something about their victory; he refuses to come because he believes they won the championship unfairly. All the same, the coach manages to summon up memories of their one day of triumph in order to continue on. The New York Shakespeare Festival production of this mordant, unflinching look at middle‐American life boasted a superb cast under the careful direction of A. J. Antoon>.

• It was so successful Off Broadway that Joe Papp moved it to Broadway, where it won all the major awards. A 1999 revival by the Second Stage proved the work to be still very stageworthy. Jason MILLER (1940–2001) was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was a film and stage actor as well as a playwright. His only other play to receive a major production was the short‐lived Nobody Hears a Broken Drum (1970)

Kiefer Sutherland

• Born: 21 December 1966
• Birthplace: London, England
• Best Known As: Star of the TV series 24

• Name at birth: Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland

• Kiefer Sutherland is the star of the TV series 24. The show, with Sutherland as counter-terrorism expert Jack Bauer, broke convention by having each hour-long episode represent an hour in Bauer’s day. Sutherland’s success on television came after a respectable 15 years in the movies: Sutherland’s memorable turn as a bully in Stand By Me (1986, with River Phoenix) led to a string of successful ensemble movies, including The Lost Boys (1987), Young Guns (1988), and Flatliners (1990, co-starring his one-time fianceé Julia Roberts). Although he has carried the lead in several movies and played a variety of roles, he has a reputation for playing creeps and jerks, such as in A Few Good Men (1992, with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson), Freeway (1996, opposite Reese Witherspoon), Dark City (1998) and Phone Booth (2002, starring Colin Farrell). Kiefer is the son of movie star Donald Sutherland

• Kiefer learned how to rope and ride in the movies and has competed professionally as a calf roper… Sutherland was nominated for the Emmy Award for outstanding lead actor in a drama series every year from 2002-2006; he won the award in 2006… He has a twin sister, Rachel… In December of 2007 he began serving a 48-day jail sentence for two drunk-driving arrests in three years.