A Staged Production of Barry Gifford’s HOTEL ROOM TRILOGY at the Roger Smith Hotel
Posted on 13. Oct, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events, Hotel
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MONK PARROTS, OPEN CHANNEL CREATIONS & ROGER SMITH ARTS present HOTEL ROOM TRILOGY by BARRY GIFFORD production concept and direction by GREG SKURA: A THREE-PART EXPERIENCE: TRICKS STARR* BLACKOUT
*World premiere, adapted from Mr. Gifford’s short story ROOM 584, THE STARR HOTEL, from his book AMERICAN FALLS
PERFORMANCE DATES
OCTOBER 27,28,29 2011
at
The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York NY
HOTEL ROOM TRILOGY is a trio of one-act plays that take place in a New York City hotel room across different periods in recent history. The event will take place in a room at the hotel and include an audience of only 10 for each performance, creating an intimate, voyeuristic experience of mood and menace for those who “check in” for the 75 minute experience.
The first of the trilogy, “TRICKS”, set in 1969, is a study in identity and psycho-sexual tension that features art-horror film star Larry Fessenden, Rob Sheridan, and Megan McQuillan. “STARR”, set in the present, is a world premiere adaptation of Mr. Gifford’s short story “Room 584, The Starr Hotel” from his book American Falls, and features Darrell Larson as a man on the run from the law, and, himself. “BLACKOUT”, a quiet, magical story set in candlelight during a blackout in New York City in 1936, features Luke Leonard and Tilly Scott. Overseeing the action as the hotel’s Bellboy and Maid are Joey LePage and Keely Hunt, respectively.
Greg Skura is responsible for the production concept and directs.
BARRY GIFFORD’s fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in twenty-eight languages. He has been the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His books Sailor’s Holiday and The Phantom Father were each named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, and his book Wyoming was named a Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. His film credits include Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, Ball Lightning and The Phantom Father. Barry Gifford’s most recent books are Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels and Sad Stories of the Death of Kings. For more information visit www.BarryGifford.com.
MONK PARROTS, INC. is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit performing arts organization founded in New York City that encourages creative approaches to theatre-making and builds repertory performance works that cross artistic boundaries. www.monkparrots.org
OPEN CHANNEL CREATIONS, LLC provides artists a platform to exercise unfiltered creative expression. www.openchannelcreations.com
ROGER SMITH ARTS is a multi-disciplinary arts production company providing cultural entertainment as a way to promote dialogue within and between the leading disciplines of the New York and global art worlds. The company’s mission is to establish itself as a pre-eminent and sought after cultural institution to the city of New York. www.rogersmithlife.com
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