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by Lindsay Harris Friel
The Layman’s Cemetery
July 9 – 28, 2010
London’s not so swinging when you’re trying to kill yourself.
It’s 1967 and Brian Epstein crashes a cemetery, looking to check in to residency. Joe Orton follows him, looking for some tail…or to talk to Brian about the screenplay he’s written for the Beatles. (You know, whatever comes first.) They argue rewrites and ponder the making of a man. Some clothes come off. More clothes come off. There’s a lot of scrabbling in the dark. Within weeks, both of them would turn up dead. But they might have had this meeting, they might have had this chance. They might each have had something to risk and something to save. [click for more information...]
by Thomas Kyd
The Gremlin Theatre
March 13 – 28, 2010
Where words prevail not…violence prevails.
Penned a decade before Hamlet, Kyd’s sensational story is said to be its greatest influence. Noted as the first true revenge tragedy, this gripping cat-and-mouse game is a wronged father’s quest for justice for his murdered son complete with ghosts, vengeance, violence, an innocent woman driven to madness, and a play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer. [click for more information...]
by José Rivera
The Gremlin Theatre
October 3 – 18, 2009
Armageddon in heaven means hell on earth, if you’re not careful.
Marisol Perez’s routine existence changes abruptly when her guardian angel informs her that the angels are planning a rebellion against God. With the heavens in an uproar, social stability and natural order rapidly begin to deteriorate on Earth. Acid rain burns the skin; apples and coffee are extinct. The sun never rises and the moon is lost in the orbit of another planet. Men can bear children. Like the other poor mortals suffering without assistance from on high, Marisol does her best to stumble along, trying to make sense of a world gone mad. [click for more information...]
