A Life Time Burning

Friday 31 Oct & Wednesday 5 Nov, 2008
A LIFE TIME BURNING
By Cusi Cram
Directed by Ethan McSweeny
Featuring Elizabeth Canavan*, Raúl Castillo*, Deirdre O'Connell*, & Kelley Rae O'Donnell*

LAB post reading post

No one wanted to be the first to post, so that befalls me. We had our reading of Incendiary last night. I think it went exceedingly well and I hope you'll come if you weren't able to see it. It's kind of an amazing cast.

So I thought I would try to put some dramaturgy up about my play.

Here is a scene I had to delete.

Here is an article entitled "Personal Accounts: Memoirs of a Compulsive Firesetter" Another short article here.

And Here a few pages down, an article about female firesetters.

I watched a lot of film noir while writing this play. Here is some crazy cool dialogue from Out Of The Past.

Here is some visual dramaturgy. And some more.

I posted a lot of scenes on my blog while I was writing this play. Here is the first.

Here is a list of film noir films people suggested to me.

Too much? Not enough? Thanks for reading.

Incendiary

Thursday 30 Oct & Thursday 6 Nov, 2008
INCENDIARY
By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Damon Arrington
Featuring Carlo Alban*, Beth Cole*, Kelley Rae O'Donnell*, Michael Puzzo*, Joselin Reyes*, Felix Solis* & Sidney Williams*

7 Captiva Road

Tuesday 28 & Wednesday 29 Oct, 2008
7 CAPTIVA ROAD
By Andrea Ciannavei
Directed by Michele Chivu
Featuring Betsy Aidem*, Beth Cole*, Cusi Cram*, Yetta Gottesman*, Dierdre O'Connell*, Wilemina Olivia-Garcia, Richard Petrocelli*, Daphne Rubin-Vega*, Felix Solis* & Sidney Williams*

Night Train

Monday 27 Oct & Monday 3 Nov, 2008
NIGHT TRAIN
By Mel Nieves
Directed by Felix Solis
With Elizabeth Canavan* & Ed Vassallo*

The April Hour

Sat 25 Oct & Sun 26 Oct, 2008
THE APRIL HOUR
By Jonathan Smit
Dir Scott Illingworth
With Vanessa Aspillaga*, J. Eric Cook, John Doman*, Haskell King*, Deirdre O'Connell* & Elanna White*.

Objects Are Closer Than They Appear

Thu Oct 23 & Fri Oct 24, 2008
OBJECTS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR
By Megan Mostyn-Brown
Dir Carolyn Cantor
With Justin Reinsilber* & Matthew Stadelman*