courtesy of Dallas Theater Center
Interview/Entrevista
Price range: $15.00 through $15.95
Description
An interview grows darkly menacing as it turns into an interrogation by mysterious government bureaucrats.
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Press Quotes
“Throughout history words have been man’s most eloquent and efficient tool of progress. Words have transported the knowledge that has set men free; they have framed concepts of liberty and propelled righteous revolutions. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but, like a blade, it cuts both ways. Tyrants, too, have used words to perfume their evil intentions. Recall Adolph Hitler’s fiery speeches that held Germany enraptured and led the world toward horror and destruction. In a dramatic demonstration of this power, INTERVIEW/ENTREVISTA illuminates oppression with the same weapons used by the play’s government-sanctioned thugs — words. ‘They use language as a form of torture,’ says Jonathan Moscone, who directs the play for the Dallas Theater Center’s Big D Festival of the Unexpected, ‘There’s no physical violence, no guns in this play, but ultimately there’s a real brutality. Playwright Gil Kofman uses the language itself to create a visceral experience. The action of the play moves as quickly and intricately as the mind does.'” —Joy Dickinson, Dallas Morning News
“Gil Kofman’s INTERVIEW/ENTREVISTA examines a grueling and mischievous interrogation of a Latina, who’s seeking her emigré brother, by two bureaucrats from some unnamed government agency.” —Steven Mikulan, L A Weekly
Author
Gil KofmanGil Kofman was born in Nigeria and raised in Kenya, Israel, and NYC. He studied physics at Cornell before attending NYU Graduate Film School, and later receiving an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. His play AMERICAN MAGIC, a dark political satire, was produced in NY, LA, and London with music by Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth and Richard Foreman playing the part of the President. It was later published by Broadway Play Publishing along with two other plays, INTERVIEW and PHARMACOPEIA. His play, ENTREVISTA 187, won an LA Dramalogue Award and was later produced at the Dallas Theater Center. Kofman has also published short fiction in Gordon Lish's The Quarterly and helped produce, edit and shoot the Sundance (2002) award-winning documentary, Derrida. His film, The Memory Thief, which he wrote and directed, won the Feature Award at the Edmonton Int'l Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at the Red Rock Film Festival. The New York Times called it "morally audacious and intriguingly original." In 2008 he co-edited and acted in You Won't Miss Me (Sundance 2009) which won a Gotham Award and played at various festivals throughout the world including SXSW. In 2010 he directed and edited a feature thriller in mainland China, called Case Sensitive, which was developed at the Sundance Producer's Lab and got a wide release in China June 2011.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 8/15/2011 |
| Pages | 48 |
| ISBN | 9780881454703 |
Special Notes
Originally produced by Padua Playwrights, Los Angeles and then by Dallas Theater Center
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com