– World Premiere
Written by Bill Connington
Directed, Choreographed, and Designed by Rachel Klein |
Darkness can be fun - come to the dark side! PRINCES OF DARKNESS is a blending of the Hamlet, Oedipus, and Dracula stories. Your host for the journey is none other than Lucifer. Satan's question is, "If God is so great, why is the world such a mess?" He proposes an unusual and extreme remedy for the problem. The mood of the evening? A shadowy dungeon full of sultry glamor, and a hint of whiskey in the air. The sounds? Tons of Phillip-Glass-sounding stuff, with hints of spaghetti western melodrama a-la-Ennio-Morricone. The movement/dance? The well-known mixture of Klein irony, energy, and a variety of dance genres. This world-premiere is brought to you by the guy who presented ZOMBIE, the award-winning Off-Broadway play, adapted from the novella by Joyce Carol Oates (www.zombietheplay.com). And the gal who brought you La Enferma (www.rachelkleinproductions.com/www.myspace.com/rachelkleinnyc). In ZOMBIE Connington played a mild-mannered serial killer. In PRINCES he presents Lucifer, a creature of oily charm and devilish plans. Klein builds on her body of darkly humorous work, and has a few new tricks up her sleeve.
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60 minutes
Showtimes:
Sunday- August 8 - 7pm
Wednesday- August 11 - 9pm
Thursday- August 12 - 9pm
Friday- August 13 - 9pm
Saturday- August 14 - 7pm |
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Artist website: www.princesofdarkness.com
Cast
Bill Connington is the only performer. It's a solo show. Bill Connington is the adapter and star of the Off-Broadway extended-run, critically-lauded show "Zombie." "Zombie" was adapted from the novella by Joyce Carol Oates and directed by Thomas Caruso. Connington was named the Best Lead Actor (Offoffoff Fringe), and Outstanding Male Actor (Talkin' Broadway). "Zombie" was awarded Outstanding Solo Show by FringeNYC. Critic Patrick Lee named Connington's performance as one of the most outstanding of the year. Anita Gates wrote in the New York Times, "Shocking...a chilling one-man study of perversity...Mr. Connington commits totally to this haunting characterization and leaves us wondering exactly what kind of people are walking the streets alongside us." "Zombie" also played the New York International Fringe Festival and the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York. A short film version has been shot in Boston and is currently being edited. (www.zombietheplay.com.)
Connington has performed in three evenings of Joyce Carol Oates plays at the New York Society Library, "Just Like That" on Theater Row, "Mr. Gallico" at HERE, "Spectacle of Spectacles" and "All Mixed Up Inside My Head" at LaMama E.T.C., and in his own play "Dating Rituals of the American Male" at the Royal Theater in NYC. He has also performed in regional theater, television and independent film.
Connington is an award-winning playwright, and wrote the book for the musical "The Eternal Anniversary" (Summer Shorts 3, 59 East 59 Theater), and has written "God and the Supermodel," "The Perfect Lady," "Walker" and "The Relationship Thing." His plays "Lord Byron's Lover," "Teach Me All About Love, Johnny Mathis" and his adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" have been performed in New York. He is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Rachel Klein is the director and choreographer. Recent directing credits are "The Tragedy of Maria Macabre" (an on-going work in progress developed by an Emerging Artists Residency Grant from the Field); "Lizardman! A new musical"-- book by Michael L. Cooper, music by David Mallamud; "Hound" by John Patrick Bray; "All Kinds of Shifty Villains" by Robert Attenweiler; "Sir Sheever" by Benjamin Spiro; "Sean Gill's Our Prison," "Go-Go Killers!," "Stage Blood is Never Enough" and "Aenigma," as well as several devised movement pieces including "Metro," "Rock N' Roll Medusa" and "La Enferma."
Klein's choreography has been featured at Night of 1000 Stevies, La MaMa, Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, 45 Bleecker, Banzai!, Bowery Poetry Club, the Bushwick Site Fest and Open Studios Festival, the Hiro Ballroom, the Bushwick Starr, the Duplex, the Downtown Clown Review and Don Hill's. Klein holds a BA in theater directing from Columbia College Chicago, and is an associate member of the SDC. She recently assistant directed John Gould Rubin on his production of "In the Daylight," Off-Broadway. www.rachelkleinproductions.com (For video see http://www.myspace.com/rachelkleinnyc) |
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