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| Victor Lodato is a 2002-2003 Guggenheim Fellow, as well as the recipient of the 2003 Weissberger Award for his play Motherhouse. Other plays include The Bread of Winter, Wildlife, Margo and Zelda, and A Book of Harsh Geometry. In 2002, Victor received the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting. This past fall he was a playwright-in-residence at the Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France). Other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Princess Grace Foundation, The Robert Chesley Foundation, and Art Matters. His play The Eviction recently received its world premiere at the Magic Theatre, and won a Roger L. Stevens Award from The Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. His play The Woman Who Amuses Herself was selected as the 2002 winner of the Mill Mountain Theatre New Play Competition, and was produced by Mill Mountain in 2003. Other works have been produced at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, a.k.a. Theatre (Tucson), and Institute for Studies in the Arts. His plays have received workshops and readings at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Guthrie Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, A.S.K. Theatre Projects, Primary Stages, The Play Company, The Playwrights' Center, and The Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Mr. Lodato has twice developed work at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference. He has received commissions from South Coast Repertory and the Magic Theatre. His writing has been published in North American Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, and Northwest Review. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers University, and a member of New Dramatists and The Dramatists Guild of America. |
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Drama
Short, 5-10 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Snapshot.
A young man and woman in a psychiatric ward confront the violence lurking in history and in their own pasts.
This piece is part of Snapshot, an anthology of short plays. To perform this piece independently, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform this piece as part of the full-length collection, go to Snapshot.
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Snapshot
by Tanya Barfield, Lee Blessing, Michael Bigelow Dixon, et al. |
 
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Drama/Comedy
Full-length, 80-100 minutes
11 females, 11 males (4-25 actors possible: 2-15 females, 2-15 males)
$75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: Each piece in this anthology can be licensed and performed separately.
A photograph captures and documents a single moment in time and space -- a snapshot of history, of a reality bounded by the photo's frame. But what lies outside, beyond, behind the photograph? And what stories, memories, or associations does an image of place inspire? In this multi-writer project from Actors Theatre of Louisville, a diverse assortment of talented playwrights encounter and transform Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 1969, a compelling image of the monument by renowned photographer Lee Friedlander. Their thought-provoking scenes and monologues range from delightful comedy to utterly serious tragedy, each approaching the photo's themes through a new lens.
To perform the entire collection, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual piece independently, click on its title below:
A Quick Tour of the Monument by Craig Wright Monument by Honour Kane Scene at Mount Rushmore by Quincy Long Tyler Poked Taylor by Lee Blessing Rock Scissors Paper by Deb Margolin Little Pezidents by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Val Smith Defacing Patriotic Property by Tanya Barfield Her First Screen Test by Dan O'Brien Thrift of the Magi by Annie Weisman Night Out by Sunil Kuruvilla Here and Now by Chay Yew The Great Father by Victor Lodato American Klepto by Allison Moore Becoming American by Lynn Nottage History Lesson by David Lindsay-Abaire Bomb Squad by Craig Wright On Lincoln's Head by Julie Jensen
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| "A terrific collection of perspectives -- both directly and indirectly inspired by the photo, ranging from serious to sassy..." |
| --Back Stage |
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