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Mar 31, 2009
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coming soon
Matt Freeman and I do a podcast at nytheatre.com
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Mar 29, 2009
new monologue books for actors and those who like monolgues
I have one monologue in each of these books. They are both from Food For Fish. So if you wanted, you could just read Food For Fish, but then you would miss out on the other cool monologues contained within. There are some heavy hitters in these books, including many people that you or I may know personally. See below:
Women:
And Her Hair Went With Her (2), Zina Camblin
And We All Wore Leather Pants, Robert Attenweiler
Beauty of the Father, Nilo Cruz
The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (2), Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman
Boats on a River, Julie Marie Myatt
A Body of Water, Lee Blessing
Boom (3), Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
The Butcher of Baraboo, Marisa Wegrzyn
Christmas Belles, Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten
Chronicles Simpkins Will Cut Your Ass Off, Rolin Jones
The Conscientious Objector, Michael Murphy
Custody of the Eyes (2), Anthony Giardina
The Drunken City (3), Adam Bock
Earthquake Chica, Anne Garcia-Romero
Eat the Runt, Avery Crozier
Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, Quiara Alegria Hudes
Fall Forward, Daniel Reitz
Food for Fish, Adam Szymkowicz
Fuck Tori Amos, Caitlyn Montanye Parrish
Giftbox (2), Francine Volpe
God's Ear (2), Jenny Schwartz
Great Falls, Lee Blessing
Guardians (2), Peter Morris
The Hopper Collection, Mat Smart
Hunting and Gathering (2), Brooke Berman
In Our Name, Elena Hartwell
In the Shadow of My Son, Nadine Bernard
Joy, John Fisher
Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo
Marvelous Shrine, Leslie Bramm
Mauritius, Theresa Rebeck
Men of Steel, Qui Nguyen
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Jennifer Haley
None of the Above, Jenny Lyn Bader
100 Saints You Should Know (2), Kate Fodor
Property, Rosary O'Neill
Regrets Only (2), Paul Rudnick
School of the Americas, Jose Rivera
A Small, Melodramatic Story, Stephen Belber
Smoke and Mirrors (2), Joseph Goodrich
Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, Young Jean Lee
Spain, Jim Knabel
Tea, Valina Hasu Houston
tempOdyssey, Dan Dietz
This Beautiful City, Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis
Unconditional, Brett C. Leonard
Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, Julie Marie Myatt
What Shall I Do For Pretty Girls?, Don Nigro
When The Messenger Is Hot, Marisa Wegrzyn
White People, JT Rogers
Men:
The Actor, Horton Foote
Adopt a Sailor (3), Charles Evered
Boats on a River, Julie Marie Myatt
Cagelove, Christopher Denham
The Conscientious Objector (2), Michael Murphy
Darwin in Malibu, Crispin Whittell
Digging Eleven, Kia Corthron
Down and Dirty, Lee Blessing
Eagle Hills, Eagle Ridge, Eagle Landing, Brett Neveu
Echoes of Another Man, Mia McCullough
The Emperor of Ice Cream; or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Donald Rumsfeld, Matt Moses
Fall Forward, Daniel Reitz
Food for Fish, Adam Szymkowicz
The Four of Us (3), Itamar Moses
Gary, Melinda Lopez
November (2), David Mamet
Good, Clean Fun (2), Lee Blessing
Great Falls, Lee Blessing
Hunting and Gathering, Brooke Berman
The Last Good Moment of Lily Baker, Russell Davis
Massacre (Sing to Your Children) , Jose Rivera
Mauritius, Theresa Rebeck
Men of Steel (2), Qui Nguyen
100 Saints You Should Know, Kate Fodor
On the Line (2), Joe Roland
Property (2), Rosary O'Neill
Rats, Ron Fitzgerald
The Rules of Charity (2), John Belluso
School of the Americas, Jose Rivera
Screw Machine/Eye Candy, CJ Hopkins
Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven, Young Jean Lee
Spain (2), Jim Knabel
The Sunset LTD, Cormac McCarthy
The Thirteenth of Paris, Mat Smart
This Beautiful City, Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis
Unconditional, Brett C. Leonard
Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, Julie Marie Myatt
White People, JT Rogers
Willy's Cut and Shine, Michael Bradford
Wittenberg (2), David Davalos
Yemaya's Belly, Quiara Alegria Hudes
Mar 27, 2009
PT
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Offer expires this Sunday March 29th at midnight, so buy now!
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Preview: Thurs, April 23rd, 8PM
Opening: Friday, April 24th, 8PM
Pretty Theft runs Thurs-Sat at 8PM
And Sun at 7PM
From April 23rd - May 17th
Patron's Night with Pre-show Reception Sat, May 2nd!
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Flux's 2009/10 season begins with Adam Szymkowicz's Pretty Theft, a play about ballerinas, boxes and the dangers of beauty. After losing her father, Allegra falls under the wing of bad girl Suzy, only to find an unexpected friendship with Joe, an autistic savant. When things between them take a violent turn, Allegra and Suzy escape cross country and befriend Marco, a mysterious thief who claims he cannot be caught.
Mar 25, 2009
evolution of a one-man show
I wrote this one person (one dog actually) show called Bee Eater while I was at Juilliard. I thought it was 40 minutes long and I kept trying to write short 20 min or so one person shows to go before or after it. I wrote two of these and attempted another before scrapping it.
We put up Bee Eater for a couple of nights in Minneapolis and I can tell you it's actually 50 minutes long. (I had two 10 min pieces go on before it)
While rehearsing Bee Eater I came up with another idea-- a short one person piece to go after it played by the same actor and I think it's the right one this time. I finished writing it today. It'll still have to be tested but I think it brings out the things that people are glossing over in Bee Eater and hopefully does so in a cool way. I'll have to see.
I wrote Pretty Theft in '04 sometime and it's finally being done in nyc this April. Who know how long this play will take to go up. Could be next year, could be five years from now or ten. In any case I can add it to my list of my plays I want to see produced. That list is getting longer. And as I sit here, having just finished a new play all I can think of is that I better start another one soon.
Mar 20, 2009
notes about the play
I was asked to write playwright notes for Pretty Theft. Here they are--
In 2004, I took a class with Chuck Mee at the Flea. He was writing what would become Hotel Cassiopeia about the life of artist Joseph Cornell. Cornell is probably most famous for his boxes—dioramas created from collages of found objects. He lived his whole life in the house he grew up in and probably died a virgin. He also had many friendships with ballerinas and sometimes gave his art to them as gifts. In Chuck Mee’s class we were supposed to all write our own play about Joseph Cornell and in the spirit of Mee, we were all supposed to steal from one another. Every scene everyone brought in was on the table to potentially become part of our own pieces.
I did not end up writing a play about Joseph Cornell but instead wrote a play about an autistic guy named Joe who is obsessed with ballerinas and likes to collect things in a box. Likewise, I took my character of the Waitress from a café scene someone brought in where a character said “If you live in New York long enough you will eventually fall in love with a waitress” and I took my main character Allegra from an interview someone brought in of the dancer Allegra Kent.
Although I didn’t end up stealing scenes or dialogue, I instead wrote a play about stealing. I wanted to figure out why I was so opposed to taking lines from people’s scenes when that was what we were supposed to do. Ingrained in me still was the idea of theft as an unallowable taboo. So I wrote about it. I was interested in showing different versions of theft—the serious and less serious, emotional theft and physical theft and what theft means in America and to us as individuals. Why do some people compulsively steal? When something vital is taken from us, how does it affect us? That was the initial impulse to write this play. I also looked at Chuck Mee’s theatricality and tried to make my version of a Chuck Mee play. In Pretty Theft, ballerinas dance between scenes and wrenches fall from the ceiling. And above all, I wanted to make something beautiful, maybe terrible, hopefully funny but also emotionally resonant.
Half Price Tickets to Pretty Theft
Pretty Theft
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Preview: Thurs, April 23rd, 8PM
Opening: Friday, April 24th, 8PM
Pretty Theft runs Thurs-Sat at 8PM
And Sun at 7PM
From April 23rd - May 17th
Patron's Night with Pre-show Reception Sat, May 2nd!
Cast
Allegra: Marnie Schulenburg
Suzy: Maria Portman Kelly*
Joe: Brian Pracht
Bobby: Zack Robidas
Marco: Todd D'Amour*
The Ballerinas:
Waitress, etc: Candice Holdorf*
Supervisor, etc: Cotton Wright* Psychiatrist, etc: Lynn Kenny
*Appear courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
Director: Angela Astle
Choreographer: Ashley Martinez
Scenic Design: Heather Cohn
Costume Design: Becky Kelly
Light Design: Andrew Fritsch
Sound Design: Kevin Fuller
Prop Design: Kelly O'Donnell
Stage Manager: Kate August
Flux's 2009/10 season begins with Adam Szymkowicz's Pretty Theft, a play about ballerinas, boxes and the dangers of beauty. After losing her father, Allegra falls under the wing of bad girl Suzy, only to find an unexpected friendship with Joe, an autistic savant. When things between them take a violent turn, Allegra and Suzy escape cross country and befriend Marco, a mysterious thief who claims he cannot be caught.
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