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Guinea Pig Solo

Brett C Leonard
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A visceral, violent, and stunning riff on Büchner’s classic WOYZECK. Jose Solo is an Iraq War veteran trapped in post 9/11 New York in this modern American tragedy.

Production Info

Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
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Reviews

Press Quotes

“An inventive madhouse of a play … I was compelled, amused, scared, offended and jolted … Leonard comes at you head on and with no holds barred, like no one that I know of at work presently in the theater. He is a force to be reckoned with … a kind of raw, innocent daredevil committed to his own aesthetic.” —David Rabe

“… this genuinely startling piece of theater lodges under the skin like a needy parasite and burrows away long after the final curtain … It’s not to be missed by those who like theater to hit the back of the gut.” —Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

“… haunting and harrowing … bears the marks of a passionately engaged writer with a poetic soul, a gift for bristling dialogue, a pitch-black comic sensibility and an almost Orwellian view of the world … based on WOYZECK but utterly contemporary in its reworking … the kind of catharsis rarely found on the stage.” —Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

About the Author

Author

  • Brett C Leonard

    Brett C Leonard has been a member of New York's acclaimed LAByrinth Theater Company since 2003. His stage plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, Berlin and Sydney. In early 2010 his play THE LONG RED ROAD was directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman in an extended-run world premiere at Goodman Theatre in Chicago. In 2008 UNCONDITIONAL was directed by Mark Wing-Davey in its world premiere production by LAByrinth Theater Company at New York's Public Theater, and is published in Smith & Kraus' New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2008. In 2004 his play GUINEA PIG SOLO had its world premiere as the inaugural LAByrinth/Public Theater co-production, and was later produced at Chicago's Collaboraction, where it was named Chicago Tribune's "Top 10 of 2005" and "most visceral show of the year." In 2007 GUINEA PIG SOLO was presented as part of the Berlin Arts Festival's 50th Anniversary at the House of World Culture. ROGER AND VANESSA has been produced at Latchmere Theatre 503 in London, The Actors' Gang in Los Angeles and Tap Gallery in Sydney. SCOTCH AND WATER was first produced by New Company in London, where it was selected as Critics' Choice in Time Out London. Mr. Leonard is the recipient of the 2008 Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award and is Co-Artistic Director (with Tom Hardy and Kelly Marcel) of London's Bad Dog Theatre Company. He is also a member of Israel Horovitz's Playwrights Lab. GUINEA PIG SOLO, UNCONDITIONAL, ROGER AND VANESSA, SCOTCH AND WATER and THE LONG RED ROAD are published by Broadway Play Publishing. Past and upcoming film and television projects include Unconditional (Cooper's Town Prods/Overture Films), The Other (Lionsgate, co-written with Tom Hardy), Hung (HBO), Jailbait (Belladonna/Kindred/Warner Brothers) and Upstate (E-1 Ent., co-written with Bob Glaudini).

About the Book

Book Information

Publisher BPPI
Publication Date 10/1/2010
Pages 80
ISBN 9780881454581

Special Notes

Special Notes

Licensees are required to include the original stage producers credits in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:

Originally produced by the LAByrinth Theater Company, New York

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Guinea Pig Solo is produced
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