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Medicine Show Theatre Presents
The Theory Of Color
Thursday, July 12, 2007 through Sunday, July 29, 2007
A new play by Lella Heins about a worldly female artist whose life begins to unravel when she and her husband move from Manhattan to a remote hamlet in the middle of nowhere.
Length: 1 hr 45 mins
Intermission: Yes
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
"THE THEORY OF COLOR" tells the story of Elena, a worldly Italian-born artist who finds herself transplanted from New York City to a small, sleepy, remote island when her husband Tom accepts a new job as the town doctor. Arriving at the end of the summer vacation season, Tom and Elena soon meet several of the local “townies” including a priest with a penchant for the bottle, a schizophrenic who’s convinced that the other townspeople are out to kill her, and a young man experiencing serious jitters about his upcoming wedding. While Tom is enthralled with the “normalcy” of small-town life, Elena is driven to distraction by the depression and unhappiness that she sees around her. As the long winter months drag by, she starts to realize that Tom may not be the man she thought he was.
Featured in the cast: GEOFF WIGDOR (young Robert De Niro in the feature film Sleepers, guest leads on television’s ER, Law and Order and Third Watch); JAMES NUGENT (many roles at off-Broadway’s Pearl Theatre), CELESTE MORATTI (Dario D’ambrosi’s “Crazy Sound” at La Mama) as well as CHARLOTTE PATTON, ALEXANDRA DEVIN and KATHRYN SAVANNAH.
Director ALEXANDER HARRINGTON has worked extensively at La Mama ETC, where he’s directed “The Burial At Thebes,” “Henry IV Parts 1 and 2” and “Agememnon.” He is the author of a theatrical adaptation of “The Brothers Karamazov” which was produced at La Mama and the Culture Project and published in the anthology Playing With Cannons: Explosive New Works from Great Literature by America's Indie Playwrights (New York Theatre Experience).
LELLA HEINS has been a member of the Actors Studio Playwrights Unit since 1988. Her play “Jean” was produced by Halcyon Theatre and, with Tammy Grimes in the lead, at a concert reading at LTV Studios in the Hamptons. Among her other credits: “Valentina” (produced as part of The Actors Studio Short Play Festival and by The Magellan Theatre Project at the Ohio Theatre), the prose-poem-play “Baudelaire” (AC Space in London, Medicine Show Theatre), “The Move” and “In the Bedroom” (Spazio Zazie in Milan, Italy). “Oriundina, the Siren of Itaparica,” a musical play with music by Carman Moore, won a Lower Manhattan Culture Council grant and was presented by LaMama Theatre as part of their Experiments ‘04 series and at Gallery27 Plus. In 2003 Medicine Show Theatre produced six of her short plays under the title “Lion Taming in Miami and Other Views of Life,” also directed by Mr. Harrington. She has adapted short stories by Edith Wharton, Anton Chekhov and Guy de Maupassant.
Scenic and Lighting Design is by TONY PENNA and Projection Art by CATERINA BERTOLOTTO.
MEDICINE SHOW THEATRE ENSEMBLE was founded in 1970 by Barbara Vann and the late James Barbosa. The company is dedicated to offering creative alternatives to conventional theatre by creating and presenting works that experiment with language, music, movement, form and ideas. The works are chosen to delight the mind, honor creativity, confound empty convention, encourage active compassion and present the many facets of the American experience within a global community.
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