The Stolen Chair Theatre Company has been active in the Off-Off-Broadway scene for several years now, and their next production is set to debut next week at the Milagro Theater on the Lower East Side.

The Accidental Patriot: The Lamentable Tragedy of the Pirate Desmond Connelly, Irish by Blood, English by Birth, and American by Inclination is the third installment in Stolen Chair's Cinetheatre Tetralogy, an audacious project initiated two years ago. They've set out to create 4 original stage productions based on 4 classic film genres. Their first, a live-action silent film called The Man Who Laughs (based on the Victor Hugo novel), generated rave reviews as well as nytheatre.com's 2005 People of the Year award. Yours truly actually appeared in the next installment of the tetralogy (and is an associate member of the company, for the sake of full disclosure), 2007's Kill Me Like You Mean It, and is therefore not qualified to speak objectively about it, but United Stage's Stanley Hall is.

The Accidental Patriot... promises to be another genre-bending adventure from Stolen Chair. We'll have an interview up with the Artistic Director of the company shortly!