The City in the City in the City
Note
Not yet published.Description
Tess’s mother dies just before they are supposed to leave for the ancient city-state of Mastavia to retrieve a package left for them by Tess’s estranged father. Unwilling to give up the mission, Tess posts an ad online for a traveling companion with her mother’s exact name, and meets a new Laura, a mysterious woman eager to escape her life. This unlikely duo sets off on a journey to this strange city of doubles, mystifying bureaucracy, ancient graves, and a hidden world neither of them expected to encounter.
Production Info
Full Length (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Press Quotes
“Matthew Capodicasa’s kaleidoscopic, fantastical play is a roller coaster ride … full of twists, turns, blind corners and about-faces. To keep up you’ll have to glue your eyes to the stage for a gripping 100 minutes … The show is powered by the tour-de-force performances of just two actresses … who transform themselves — sometimes at warp speed — into more than 30 characters … On the surface, the show seems to be a present-day story about a woman’s quest to find the father she’s never known dressed in the exoticism of a tale from the Arabian Nights … The [play] unfolds in a torrent of words as bits of narration, stage directions, conversations and thoughts — sometimes spoken in unison and other times fired off in fragments. Humor pops up unexpectedly, as it does in dark children’s stories … What’s the play all about? Interpretations could take many directions. There are references to war, refugees and the misery of people the more fortunate prefer to ignore. Echoes of alienation thread through the story. In the end, it’s probably up to audiences to devise their own explanations. The show gives them plenty of material to work with.” —Jan Sjostrom, Florida Theater On Stage
Author
Matthew CapodicasaMatthew Capodicasa's plays include NOISE IN THE LINE, NEXT/LIFE, ALL THE PEOPLE YOU'VE BEEN, THE CITY IN THE CITY IN THE CITY, THE SCENARIOS, YOU REMIND ME OF YOU, FRELMETSCH THE MANEATER, THE CITY OF, and CHAOS AND CAESAR SALAD. His work has been presented or developed at the Kennedy Center, the National New Play Network, Primary Stages, the Flea Theater, the Abingdon Theatre, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Bluebarn Theatre, the Bloomington Playwrights Project, Theater Masters, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Capitol Fringe, among others. He is a recipient of the inaugural Judith Champion Launch Commission from the Atlantic Theater Company, a winner of the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, and his plays have been finalists for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Heideman Award. His work has been published by Samuel French, and his fiction has appeared in West 10th. Film/TV: projects in development with Anonymous Content, Annapurna Pictures, Protozoa Pictures, 3311, Video House, Endless Media, and XYZ Films. You can also hear him nerd out on various podcasts from the Glass Cannon Network. BFA, NYU/Tisch. MFA, Fordham/Primary Stages. Recent grad: Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School. He teaches at NYU.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
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| ISBN | 9798888560778 |
Special Notes
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com