Harvest Theatre presents the play "The Guys" - From a flyer: "Written only two months after the tragedy at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, "The Guys" is based on the true story of a Fire Captain who has to write 8 eulogies for men he lost and the writer he enlists to help him find the right words to tell their stories. A very special limited engagement -- 5 performances only [Sep 7-11] (As our way of saying "Thank You": Firefighters, Police, Military Personnel and Veterans get 2-for-1 tickets)"
Performances in the Lincoln Hall of the Collingwood Presbyterian Church
2108 Collingwood Blvd., Toledo - map
Performances: September 7-11, 2006
Sep 7-9th, 11th at 8:00 p.m.
Sep 10th at 7:00 p.m.
Each peformance will be followed by a Q&A
Tickets available through: http://www.brownpapertickets.com
or by calling 1-800-838-3006 or (419) 902-0608.
Ticket prices range from $17-20.
About the play from the Dramatists Play Service, Inc. website:
"THE STORY: Less than two weeks after the September 11th attacks, New Yorkers are still in shock. One of them, an editor named Joan, receives an unexpected phone call on behalf of Nick, a fire captain who has lost most of his men in the attack. He's looking for a writer to help him with the eulogies he must present at their memorial services. Nick and Joan spend a long afternoon together, recalling the fallen men through recounting their virtues and their foibles, and fashioning the stories into memorials of words. In the process, Nick and Joan discover the possibilities of friendship in each other and their shared love for the unconquerable spirit of the city. As they make their way through the emotional landscape of grief, they draw on humor, tango, the appreciation of craft in all its forms—and the enduring bonds of common humanity. THE GUYS is based on a true story."
"[A] straight-from-the-gut beautifully written two-hander…laughter is heard as often as sobs." —CurtainUp.com.
"The kind of quiet hybrid that the situation and the times—an era of a million pithy sound bites, booming rhetoric, and the numbing repetition of the CNN loop that followed the attacks—seemed to demand…A small jewel of a play." —Chicago Tribune.
"Ms. Nelson's play…gives credible and powerful voice to a very specific kind of pain…perhaps the keenest message to emerge from THE GUYS is the assertion that writers—and actors—have a serious role to play in a grieving society." —NY Times.
"A generous, sad, touching play about the braveries of grief." -NY Post.
"A courageous and riveting…play that tackles the horror of September 11th with an intimacy that's both unsettling and healing." —Christian Science Monitor.
posted by jr to art at 8:57 A.M. EST
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Saw a fabubulous performance last night. The two actors have critically thought thru the extremely well crafted lines to put across a really live performance.
I liked the Harvest Theater quality so much, I bought a season ticket.
All Saturday eves in Sept. they're doing 40 one page plays @ Artomatic 419 on Adams Street/ Uptown. Hear them after 6:30pm while you see the artwork.
posted by robertbrundage at 04:17 P.M. EST on Sat Sep 09, 2006 #
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