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Copyright: December 26, 2004
By: Laura Deni
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A SEARCH FOR CLOSURE FUELS NEW ONE MAN SHOW


Jeffrey Stanley and Luke Rosen (seated) in The Golden Horseshoe

Personal and family problems have always been script inspirations.  The Golden Horseshoe, A Lecture On Tragedy is a southern fried Greek tragedy written and performed by playwright Jeffrey Stanley.

Stanley gained fame as the author of the play Tesla’s Letters, a wartime drama set in Yugoslavia. Directed by Curt Dempster and funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the world premiere in New York at The Ensemble Studio Theatre received rave reviews. Stanley holds an MFA from the Dramatic Writing Program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts where he studied under playwright David Ives. Stanley also received his BFA in Film & Television Production from Tisch with a minor in cultural anthropology.

“This new show, in which I take to the boards myself, is a new foray for me,” Stanley told Broadway To Vegas.

With his teaching assistant Luke Rosen in tow, Stanley takes you through "an existential tunnel of country music terror" to the Underworld and back, through his failed marriage and his obsessive life and death search to find his hard drinking, country music singing, biological father.

Stanley uses country music, courtroom transcripts, birth certificates, Marine Corps discharge papers, DNA evidence, lawyers, and a healthy dose of Nietzsche to pick through his shattered marriage while piecing together a portrait of his biological father.

“Yes indeed, it's 100% autobiographical,” stressed Stanley. “I produce 'exhibits' throughout the lecture to verify the story's veracity because it's got a lot of twists and turns and people think I'm making it up. The exhibits wind up in plastic protectors on a table center stage, treated as precious artifacts, and at the end I invite the audience to take a look.”

Currently in a limited engagement at Don't Tell Mama in The Big Apple, performances are on January 12, 19, 26, and February 2.

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Copyright: December 26, 2004
By: Laura Deni
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