Teatime at Golgotha
Description
TEATIME AT GOLGOTHA is “a heady, wittily self-effacing drama” about the unenviable search for meaning in what is — in all likelihood — a cold, cold world. Following the stories of Longinus after the crucifixion, the last hours in the life of astronomer Tycho Brahe, and a modern day hostage situation, TEATIME leaps back and forth through the millennia, drawing meanings, parallels, and conclusions that the characters themselves characteristically fail to notice.
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Press Quotes
“Mark Chrisler’s intelligent, thrilling TEATIME AT GOLGOTHA [is] rewarding: bringing history, myth, and hallucination into fruitful collision. Chrisler … presents a heady, wittily self-effacing hour-long fantasy that charms even as it ridicules its own grandiosity. Chrisler partitions the stage into three playing areas, each populated by three characters from a different historical period … Gradually the worlds begin to intersect, as the same phrase that ends a scene in one era starts the next in another … The most striking moment of TEATIME AT GOLGOTHA comes when the three playing areas are lit simultaneously for the first time and all the characters, stupefied, see one another … The cool humor and fantastical musings of TEATIME AT GOLGOTHA … Using great theatrical economy — the play is rhetorically precise, and all the details are telling — Chrisler needs only an hour to develop his themes. But rather than pin his ideas down at the end, he lets them linger evocatively.” —Justin Hayford, The Chicago Reader
Author
Mark ChrislerMark Chrisler's plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, London, San Francisco, New Orleans, and throughout the US, as well as in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He has been presented or developed at such places as The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Stella Adler Studio, The San Francisco Playhouse, Ilkhom Theatre, Four Humours Theatre, The Side Project, Springboard Theatre, The New York International Fringe Festival, Curious Theatre Branch and many more. He is the author of over ten full-length and solo plays in addition to nearly a hundred short plays. He received his MFA in dramatic writing from Ohio University and his BA in theater arts from Northern Illinois University. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including a Newberry Library Fellowship, a special Orgie Award, a NAPAT New Play Award and the Best Emerging Playwright of 2010 award from The Chicago Reader. He lives in Chicago with his wife, where he serves as a resident playwright for Found Objects Theatre Group, an Artistic Associate for Prop Thtr and teaches playwriting for Silk Road Rising Theatre.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 6/30/2014 |
| Pages | 44 |
| ISBN | 9780881456004 |
Special Notes
First staged at Prop Thtr, Chicago
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com
