A Lecture on
Tragedy
Professor Stanley |
|
Teaching Assistant Luke Rosen |
In this hilarious
southern fried Greek tragedy, playwright Jeffrey
Stanley, with his teaching assistant Luke Rosen in tow,
takes you through "an existential tunnel of
country music terror" to the Underworld and back
in this navel-gazing life and death journey to resurrect
a family skeleton. Take notes, there'll be a quiz at the
end (see
syllabus).
Teaching Assistant Luke Rosen (left) does the emoting as Stanley uses country music, courtroom transcripts, birth certificates, Marine Corps discharge papers, DNA evidence, letters, lawyers, and a healthy dose of Nietzsche, Sir James Frazer and ancient Greek theatre to piece together a family mystery. |
Running time 75
minutes, no intermission.
"Be there."
Dear Horseshoe fans,
the show's limited engagement at Don't Tell Mama in New
York City during 2005, after world premiering at the Live
From the Living Room performance series at the Gershwin
Hotel in New York City in 2004, has come and gone.
Thanks for your interest. It was my first "one man
show" (that's in quotes because it was actually a
multi-person show, with Luke Rosen periodically taking
over as me, briefly, in order to emote on my behalf,
saying my painful words for me, and also featured a silent
actress knitting in the audience and a violinist on one
song). The show was successful enough that I followed it
up over the coming years with two more truly solo shows, Beautiful
Zion: A Book of the Dead and
Jeffrey
Stanley's Boneyards.
THE GOLDEN
HORSESHOE: A LECTURE ON TRAGEDY
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