Why Are We Back In Iraq?

NEXT PERFORMANCE - MAY 24th, 2004 7:30 PM - T.H.A.W. (Theaters Against Wars)Freedom Follies - Cherry Lane Theatre - 38 Commerce Street - Greenwich Village. A reading of Act IV Scene II. Alex Emanuel as NYC writer Ted Wolf, Ron Brynaert as New York Magazine Editor Harold Reynolds. Direction by Thomas Abbey.

December 8th, 2003 - T.H.A.W. FREEDOM FOLLIES - The Alwan Center for the Arts - 16 Beaver Street #4 - New York City. A reading of Act II Scene II

• Alex Emanuel as NYC writer Ted Wolf*
• Zach Zito as Australian Unilateral Terry Moran
• Direction by Thomas Abbey

November 17th, 2003 - Another Urban Riff - 320 West 37th Street - New York City. First Public Reading.

• ALEX EMANUEL as TED WOLF*
• SEANA LEE WYMAN as AMY DOWNDEN
• BILL GORMAN as HAROLD REYNOLDS*
• DAN SNOW as LT. COL. TAYLOR*
• ZACH ZITO as TERRY MORAN
• STEPHEN LEE ASHBY as DEPUTY ADAM WALTERS
• IAN CAMPBELL DUNN as PFC MARKS
• MASON PETTIT as LANCE CORP IRWIN
• CHRIS CHAN as PFC SANTANA
• ELVIS O. NOLASCO as CORP LANG*
• DAVE SPORER as PFC EDWARDS & KELLY ASHE
• DAVE DIXON as SGT DRUDGE
• THOM ABBEY - DIRECTOR
• LILITH BEITCHMAN - PRODUCTION MANAGER
• CELINE BEITCHMAN - ARTWORK
• * Appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity Association

• TED WOLF - New York City Magazine Writer, the son of a renowned activist/journalist, who has become more moderate in his politics since the events of 9-11, in his mid-thirties.
• AMY DOWDEN - Ted's live-in girlfriend, a city college teacher's assistant, in her mid-to-late-thirties.
• HAROLD REYNOLDS - Managing Editor of New York City Magazine, a former News Bureau Chief for The Washington Times, who resembles Donald Rumsfeld, in his mid-sixties.
• TERRY MORAN - Australian freelance journalist, extremely cynical but debonair, in his mid-fifties.
• LT. COLONEL BILLY TAYLOR - US Marine instructor of a chemical weapons course for the Embed Program Boot Camp, tough but with a folksy wit, in his late-forties.
• ADAM WALTERS - Deputy from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (OASD (PA)), a nebbish official, in his early forties.
• MARKS - PFC from the 3/4 US Marines, and a sniper, a metal head from Pennsylvania, in his early-twenties.
• IRWIN - Lance Corporal from the 3/4 US Marines, and a sniper, an aspiring actor from Hollywood, in his early-twenties.
• SANTANA - PFC from the 3/4 US Marines, and a go-for, a non-naturalized Mexican-American from Texas, in his late-teens.
• LANG - Corporal from the 3/4 US Marines, and a rifleman, an African-American from Brooklyn, who enlisted for college money, in his early-twenties.
• EDWARDS - PFC from the 3/4 US Marines, and a rifleman, that spent time in reform school, from South Carolina, in his early twenties.
• DRUDGE - Sergeant from the 3/4 US Marines, and the squad leader, proud to be a Republican from Texas, in his mid-to-late twenties.
• KELLY ASHE - Cable newschannel cameraman and Gulf War vet, the all-American son of a former NYC police commissioner, in his late-thirties.

ACTS & SCENES

• ACT I - New York City, February 2003
• Scene 1 - Feb 15, TED's Bedroom in Clinton Hill, night
• Scene 2 - Feb 16, HAROLD's Office at NYC Magazine, morning
• ACT II - Quantico, Virginia & New York City, February 2003
• Scene 1 - Feb 17, Marine Training Classroom, morning
• Scene 2 - Feb 17, Quantico Base Saloon, night
• Scene 3 - Feb 20, TED's Bedroom in Clinton Hill, night
• ACT III - Iraq, March-April 2003
• Scene 1 - March 24, Southern desert, noon
• Scene 2 - April 7, Diyala Bridge, night
• Scene 3 - April 9, Firdos Square, Baghdad, morning
• ACT IV - New York City & San Diego, April-May 2003
• Scene 1 - April 14, TED's Bedroom in Clinton Hill, noon
• Scene 2 - April 20, HAROLD's Office, NYC Magazine, morning
• Scene 3 - May 24, Camp Pendleton Base Saloon, night

This play is dedicated to the unilateral journalists murdered in Iraq.

# posted by Ron Brynaert : 1/14/2004 01:52:00 PM