COURTING DISASTER
By David Kranes
FREE READING Monday, October 11th @ 7 pm
Directed by Robin Wilks-Dunn
Company: Michael Behrens, Brenda Sue Cowley, Brien Jones, Alexandra Harbold
PLAYWRIGHT'S NOTE
"Much of Courting Disaster was written over two visits to the Wordbridge Playwrights Lab, where I was serving as a resource artist to emerging playwrights. Being in the presence of "gifted" individuals is powerful and illuminating. How those who are gifted navigate their gifts and selves through a lifetime poses choices and reconciliations. How does a person-of-gifts get from "here" to "there"? Delia, in this play, has made choices, her voice is unashamed. Kaman has heard her voice and been drawn to it -- but he still has choices to make. Agent Winters? Well....he's doing his job --though he'd rather be doing another one."
DAVID KRANES (Playwright)
David Kranes is a writer of seven novels and two volumes of short stories--most recently, Making The Ghost Dance (2005). His 2001 novel, The National Tree, was recently made into a film by Hallmark, which aired in November, 2009. His short fiction (appearing in such magazines as Esquire, Ploughshares, Transatlantic Review) has won literary prizes and has been anthologized. Over 40 of his plays have been performed in New York and across the U.S. (in theaters such as The Actors’ Theater of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theater Club, Cincinatti’s Playhouse in the Park), and his Selected Plays (with an Introduction by director, Jon Jory) will be published in 2010. His radio plays have been performed in the U.S., Canada and abroad. He has written for film and for dance companies. The opera, Orpheus Lex, for which he wrote the libretto, was performed at New York City’s Symphony Space in February of 2010. He is currently working on a novel, a play and a “wordscape”-score for a new Ririe-Woodburry dance piece choreographed by Charlotte Boyes-Christensen. In his second (or is it third?) life, Mr. Kranes, travels and consults in the casino industry.
Salt Lake Theatre Examiner | The magic of a well-told tale at Salt Lake Acting Company's Courting Disaster (10/7/10)
