The New Group opens Off-Broadway adaptation of Rope

The New Group has launched an Off-Broadway production of Rope, an adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 film. The production, directed by Scott Elliott and adapted by Gordon Greenberg, features Cameron Monaghan as Garrett Stern and Corey Fogelmanis as Nate Singer.

This version makes the romantic relationship between the two Princeton graduate students explicit. The plot follows the characters as they host a dinner party in their Turtle Bay apartment, using a trunk to hide the body of a classmate they murdered.

Monaghan described his character as a pragmatist who views the world through a lens of survival, while Fogelmanis, making his New York stage debut, noted that love serves as the primary motivation for his character's actions.