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A staged reading of the play
"Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues"
August 16, 1993
Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Produced at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
by the the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre |
| Playwright by Caridad Svich |
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Jamie |
- Steven Culp |
| Directed by Lisa Peterson |
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Caroline |
- Kimberly Scott |
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Tirasol |
- Patricia Mattick |
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Simone |
- Anne Heche |
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Selah |
- Grace Zabriskie |
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Miranda |
- Fay Hauser |
A Play with Songs
Full Length in One Act
1M (20s), 2W (20s), 3W (40s-50s)
Fluid, Open Space |
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| Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues explores the question of how we cope with incalculable loss. In this play, a young woman is haunted by the death of her husband in an unnamed war. She is lost in a swamp of grief and longing. The women of her community struggle to sweep her back into the land of the living with earth magic, songs and buckets of fried chicken. |
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| A play with original songs set in a primeval landscape of swamp and burnt-out woods. The death of a young soldier (killed in a recent war) sends his widow, and a community of women left behind, on a journey where the soldier's ghost, fried chicken, and other mysteries of spirit and nature come together in a search for pure grace. "It is a rich and provocative piece of theater that deserves to be seen elsewhere." (Variety) |
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