In this evocative, new play *The Dudleys!* takes the adolescent memories of a young man and translates them into a malfunctioning 8-bit video game, the kind he used to play. A life size video game onstage provides the setting in which actors must score and overcome obstacles as they navigate their way through and overcome the dangers of *The Dudleys!* The production features a live band of all original music composed on vintage video game equipment (think Atari, Gameboy and Commodore 64). *The Dudleys!* pits the two dimensional world of happy endings up against the confusion and aimlessness of real life.
*The Dudleys!* comes to the Dream Up Festival after a workshop of the piece in 2009 in a downtown Manhattan bank vault. The workshop was lauded for the use of original music created by playwright Stevens and video design created by Dan Monceaux, Angela Hill, David Bengali, Jordan Rein, Josh Lampman, David Mauro, Camillo Munar, and Jake Witlen. The play features performances by Erin Treadway, Dianna Ruppe, Craig Bridger among others with choreography by Melinda Rebman and scenic design by Kara Zaigon.
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Artist's Website
www.playthedudleys.com
Cast
Brandon Bales, Craig Bridger, Josh Levine, Meg McLynn, Casey Robinson, Diana Ruppe, Wrenn Schmidt, Eric Slater, Erin Treadway and David Wylie with scenic design by Kara Zeigon, lighting design by Joe Novack, costume design by Nicole Wee and choreography by Melinda Rebman
Plays by Leegrid Stevens have been seen in the downtown New York theatre scene at venues such as HERE Arts Center, Lark Theatre,
Ontological-Hysteric
Theatre, Altered Stages and Spring Theatreworks’ Dumbo space, in addition
he has been produced at several other theatres across the US and Europe. His plays have been published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Smith & Kraus, Stage Tribes and by Martin Denton in his Plays and Playwrights Anthology. Stevens was named as one of the “People of the Year” by nytheatre.com citing him as being, "indisputably one of the smartest and most innovative young playwright/directors working in New York's Indie
theatre scene.” Leegrid Stevens holds an MFA from Columbia University’s
School of the Arts.
* The Dudleys!* Director, Matt Torney is a writer and director based in
New York City. Originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland, he has been an associate director of Rough Magic Theatre Company, one of Ireland’s
leading
independent theatre companies, since August 2009. Prior to that, he worked for a year as the resident assistant director at the Abbey Theatre. Torney
holds an MFA in theatre directing from Columbia University and studied
under both Anne Bogart (artistic director SITI company) and Brian Kulick
(artistic
director Classic Stage Company). Some of his past works include *Black
Milk *by Vassily Sigarev at the Belfast International Theatre Festival, *The
Last Days of Judas Iscariot *by Stephen Adly Guirgis at the Project Arts
Centre in Dublin (nominated for 2 Irish Theatre Awards including ‘Best
Director’), *Woyzeck *at the Dublin Fringe Festival (nominated for a
Fringe Award) and *Paper Tigers*, a new play by Ben Schiffer at the
Edinburgh Festival. His New York credits include: *The Angel of History
*at
the HERE Arts Center, *Sistahs *by Harrison Rivers at
Collective:Unconscious and *The Frankenstein Project *at Columbia
University. Most recently he assisted Jimmy Fay on the American premiere
of
Sam Shepherd’s *Ages of the Moon *at the Atlantic Theater Company.
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