Breaking the code: Alex Draper and Cassidy Boyd in Snoo Wilson's Lovesong of the Electric Bear (Photo: Stan Barouh)

In association with Middlebury College, PTP/NYC, formerly known as the Potomac Theatre Project, brings their 24th repertory season to New York’s Atlantic Stage 2 from 6 July through 1 August. Their season this year includes Lovesong of the Electric Bear, a play about mathematician Alan Turing by Snoo Wilson, and a revival of David Rabe’s play A Question of Mercy about euthanasia.

And of course their annual offering of work by Howard Barker. This year, Wrestling School associate and PTP co-founder Richard Romagnoli directs two poems for the theatre by Barker. The fine Robert Emmet Lunney (of Broadway’s The Graduate and other PTP Barker productions) will perform Gary the Thief, originally written for Gary Oldman, about a criminal who defines himself in direct opposition to “the crowd,” and the equally fine Alex Draper will perform Barker’s Plevna: Meditations on Hatred.

As to the other plays in repertory, Draper also stars in Wilson’s Lovesong of the Electric Bear, which examines Turing’s life from his childhood to his deathbed; Cheryl Faraone directs. Jim Petosa’s revival of Rabe’s A Question of Mercy centers on two lovers, one of whom is waging a losing battle with AIDS.

As Time Out New York‘s Helen Shaw has written, “The Potomac Theatre Project produces Barker in steady, stripped-down presentations, often with riveting central performances,” and of last year’s season the New York Times‘ Neil Genzlinger wrote that “the company [stands] out amid the season’s fluff and fringiness as one to turn to for serious work.” More information, including a full schedule of dates and times for all three productions, is available at PTP/NYC’s Web site.