- World Premiere
Author/Director: Antony Raymond
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"Peter In Pieces," written and directed by Antony Raymond, is a dark
comedy about the life and relationships of a New York actor who is
always trying to get laid until it causes his demise. Theater for the
New City’s Dream Up Festival will present the play's world premiere
September 8 to September 14.
The play depicts the sexual exploits, including then failed and
thwarted encounters, of an aspiring actor named Peter, played by
Christopher Heard. Peter, like many a serial womanizer before him,
has a penchant for destroying relationship bridges as he follows his
desires. Over the course of four pieces, we get to see Peter from
various angles--with a running buddy, an acting partner, his mistress
and his fiancée and finally, his brother. In the end, of course, Peter gets his comeuppance (and some would argue a fitting one at that); it is a comeuppance that puts the “dark” in dark comedy.
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Johnson Theater
Showtimes:
Sunday - September 8 - 5pm
Tuesday - September 10 - 9pm
Thursday - September 12 - 6:30pm
Friday - September 13 - 9pm
Saturday - September 14 - 5pm
Running time: Peter in Pieces is 85 Minutes $18.
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Lighting is by Daryl Embry, sound is by Dean Werb and costumes are by Maurice Turtelli.
Author/Director Antony Raymond is author/director of “Apartment 301”
(Access Theater), “Elsinore County” (Theatre Row and Cherry Lane
Studio Theater), “Yeah, I Met this Girl”(Zipper Factory and Under St.
Marks), "Lustyness: Plays About This Guy Names Lou" (Under St. Marks
Theater) and "Julio" (Kraine Theater). As an actor, Raymond has
appeared in several Off-Broadway shows, including “Fools in Love,”
“The Tempest” and “Beach Trip and a Night’s Dream.” His directing
credits include "Bette David Ain't for Sissies" by Jessica Sherr
(EdinburghFringe and 59E59), "Bluff" (Provincetown, MA) and
"Provincetown Murser Mystery" (Provincetown, MA). He has studied with
Uta Hagen, Austin Pendleton, Reed Birney, and Robert Perillo. Before
turning to the theater he was a professional wrestler who grappled
with such WWE legends as The Iron Sheik, The Honky Tonk Man, Fabulous
Moolah, Mae Young, and Superfly Jimmy Snuka. He is Artistic Director
of Elsinore County, a theater company located in the West Village.
Reviewing his "Yeah, I Met this Girl,” Nelson Diaz-Marcano wrote in
Manhattan With a Twist, “What I am trying to say is I think Raymond
has a mastery of realistic dialogue that many lack out there. Most
plays do not apply this way of speaking, instead they bask in stylish
rhythms or create their own language. It’s the beauty of theater, the
way you can manipulate the language to create new ones inside of the
already established. Raymond’s dialogue is not where style lies, it’s
in his structure, and what a great job he did of enforcing it by
sitting on the director’s chair himself.”
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