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JEFF STARK
Nationality: USA
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Jeff Stark's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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IRT: A Tragedy in Three Stations Sweet Cheat, TheIRT: A Tragedy in Three Stations
Synopsis:
A site-specific, live-action show about building New York's electric railroad, played out live in the New York City subway. the audience follows the actors in and out of train cars and across platforms as our story hurtles through the city. In 2004 two subway workers discover love letters written in an obscure corner of a crumbling IRT station. the action speeds back to 1904. Union carpenter Thomas Fowler squares off against subway financier August Belmont. An altruistic nurse, Clara, ignites another passion in Fowler. Can the two of them stop a careless machine? Will reckless love spoil Belmont's plans? Who's writing in the tunnels? And why? Our actors auditioned and rehearsed the entire show in the New York City subway over the last two months. Our crews rode trains with stopwatches and note pads. We recorded in tunnels and researched volumes of subway history and lore. Full period costumes. Custom traveling sets. Mobile lighting. Live music. This is live theater in transit
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- press release
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New York Subway 2009
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Synopsis:
the Sweet Cheat is site-specific theater. Based on Rick Moody's science fiction novElla the Albertine Notes, the play incorporates music, video, and installation, all staged inside a massive abandoned building-a relic of New York's industrial past. This is the synopsis: "With much of Manhattan decimated after a suitcase bomb explodes in Union Square, 20 percent of the population is addicted to a drug that allows perfect memory recall. Reporter Kevin Lee's assignment: Is it true you can get to the future on Albertine?" Stark's last play, IRT, took place without permission in the New York City subway system. the Sweet Cheat continues this series of art in the real world, far from black box theaters and white-walled galleries. This is not guerrilla theater; it's trespass theater, where the risks are serious and the art questions the division between life and representations of it-just like the story itself. the space has not been curated for safety. All audience members must approach the performance with extreme caution. there are only 40 tickets-no seats-per show. Tickets go on sale online on April 16 at exactly 1pm.
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Audience meets in Manhattan and is taken to the play location 24 Apr 2010
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