Fistful of Love
May 15-31, 2008
A co-production with Manbites Dog Theater
Adapted from the plays of Charles L. Mee
Featuring Monica Byrne, Donnis Collins, Jane Holding, Lormarev Jones, Elizabeth Phillips, Dana Marks, Tom Marriott, Ron Quander, Rajeev Rajendran, Lucius Robinson, and LaMark Wright
Music by Jason Arrol, Bart Matthews & Lamont Reed
Designed by Emily Hower & Steve Tell
Directed by Jay O'Berski
Fifty runaway grooms seek asylum in idyllic Italy only to be hunted down by the fifty brides they've been promised to. The impossibility of
modern love and marriage plays out sensually
and savagely in a tango smackdown of love and death.
A play so full of love it takes two companies to produce!
REVIEWS:
A musical long-form poem about eroticism, love, loneliness, trust, and commitment. It walks; it talks (and talks some more); its sings; it dances; it gets in and out of the hot tub… it portrays the mythic and timeless struggle between men and women as a bloody war in which a few battles may end in happy détente. It is very, very funny. It also features a beautiful, delicate, melancholy performance by Tom Marriott that remains etched on the heart after the amusements have faded.
-- Kate Dobbs Ariail, CVNC.org, Full review
In a wedding season marked by swooning sighs of "I do," Fistful of Love fights back with a belligerent "I won't"… A contemporary multimedia adaptation of Aeschylus' ancient Greek drama "The Suppliants," Fistful takes altar aversion to bloody extremes. But it also offers enough confections of its own to turn the tragedy into a romantic comedy.
-- Orla Swift, News & Observer, Full review
"Bridezilla" meets Sadie Hawkins Day.
-- Byron Woods, Independent Weekly, Full Review
VIDEO:
preview by Jim Haverkamp
Wedding movie for "Fistful of Love" from Jim Haverkamp on Vimeo.
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