Redemption is the goal in a fractured memory play looping onward for 40 years. With sensibility comes closure. Wind up the Victrola and let the story unfold! Dowding and Zoë Bennett have created a fantasy world divided into two sections: the downstage world of text and human interaction and the juxtaposed upstage world filled with whimsical expression and beautifully crafted movement. The ethereal float amongst the upstage until these characters are called upon to pass through the equator into the downstage to live out their fate as projected through the eyes of our protagonist, August, vaguely disguised as Tennessee Williams' during the summer of 1940 where the artist was drafting up his play Battle of Angels under constant pressures for concession from finicky producers. It was here that August spent a summer with the infamous Kip Kiernan, guarded artfully by his amorous protector, Clare. Doom is the underlying theme in this memoir play in which the writer relays a desire for compassion and redemption. This production premieres at the beautiful gallery setting of the third floor at The Invsible Dog Art Center in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn on Sunday February 9 at 6pm, with a post show reception to follow. A $10 donation is suggested and reservations can be made by email to director/producer G.J. Dowding at [email protected]
The next stop of our production lands us at The Wild Project in The East Village from Monday, March 3-Wednesday, March 5 with performances each night at 8:30. It will be a more intimate, traditional theater setting with a stronger focus on media. Our last stop of production will take place at Dixon Place in the Lower East Side on Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30. This showing will focus more heavily on a memoir telling of Tennessee Williams' and his great loves: Hazel Kramer, Kip Kiernan, and Frank Merlo. It will include text from Something Cloudy, Something Clear along with letters and poems written by Williams. We look forward to encountering you along the way!
