Filmmaker Stuart Gordon is well-known for adapting the works of H.P. Lovecraft, but four decades ago, he also helped bring Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s The Sirens of Titan to life on the stage, and La's Sacred Fools Theater Company will celebrate the adaptation's 40th anniversary by performing a new version of the play, updated by Gordon himself, to conclude their 20th season.
Press Release: In 1977, acclaimed writer/director Stuart Gordon adapted Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s classic novel for Chicago’s Organic Theater with the approval and input of the author himself. Now Sacred Fools will close its 20th season with the recently rediscovered adaptation, newly updated by Gordon and more timely than ever.
Director Ben Rock ("Baal," "Occupation”) brings to the stage this visually dazzling and darkly humorous sci-fi epic about what happens when the richest man in the world loses everything, sets out on an unbelievable journey through space and time,...
Press Release: In 1977, acclaimed writer/director Stuart Gordon adapted Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s classic novel for Chicago’s Organic Theater with the approval and input of the author himself. Now Sacred Fools will close its 20th season with the recently rediscovered adaptation, newly updated by Gordon and more timely than ever.
Director Ben Rock ("Baal," "Occupation”) brings to the stage this visually dazzling and darkly humorous sci-fi epic about what happens when the richest man in the world loses everything, sets out on an unbelievable journey through space and time,...
- 3/22/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
A lot of things can make a project jump out at an actor from the pages of casting notices. Sometimes it's a hard-hitting log line or a breakdown featuring the sort of character the actor has longed to play. When Pete Caslavka saw the casting notice for "The Magic Bullet Theory" on backstage.com in January, the creative and highly unusual audition requirements stood out. The play, which will be onstage at Sacred Fools Theater Company in Los Angeles through April, is an original production about the assassination of JFK-steeped with American lore and conspiracy theory. Actors were told to prepare two things: a movement exercise in which they would act out a historical assassination and a monologue that they felt was in some way "American." Caslavka decided to have fun with it. "I recited the lyrics of 'Stuart,' a song by the Dead Milkmen, a punk band from the '80s,...
- 3/31/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Sarah McKinley Oakes)
- backstage.com
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