To support the creative visionaries of the current Off-Off-Broadway world, Judson Memorial Church presents MAGIC TIME, a free monthly series of staged readings of fresh plays by the movement’s astonishing voices.
Each month, a new playwright is provided with free space, a small stipend, and whatever magic we can muster to conjure his or her vision to life in the very space where it all began, the Judson Memorial Church Meeting Room. What results is a party with a brand new play smack-dab in the middle of it.
Up next at Magic Time
Thom Fogarty will direct TEN TALL TALES ABOUT THE MEN I LOVE, based on the short story collection of the same name by Ronn Smith and adapted by Thom Fogarty, will be presented Friday, February 24th and Saturday, February 25th by Magic Time and Thom Fogarty. This ‘walkabout’ production, based on Ronn Smith’s short story collection and Thom Fogarty’s reimagining for the stage, is a series of 10 overlapping scenes for 10 characters in the time of AIDS dealing with love, loss and life. The cast of ten includes: Armand Anthony, Micah Bucey, Quincy Ellis, Ken Kidd, Christopher Michael McLamb, Aidan O’Shea, Adam Patterson, Carlton Tanis*, and Dustye Winniford*. Lighting design by Bill Stabile. Costume and Stage design is by Thom Fogarty
Ronn Smith is the author of Ten Tall Tales About the Men I Love: Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Three or Four Poems (from which "Ten Tall Tales About the Men I Love" was adapted by Thom Fogarty); Nothing But the Truth: A Play (based on the YA novel of the same title by Avi); Unquote Comma or REQ: A Play; and American Set Design: Interviews with Twelve Contemporary Set Designers. He is also a fundraising/development consultant, working with cultural, humanitarian, and educational nonprofits that are committed to creating positive social change. Ronn currently lives in Boston.
Director Thom Fogarty brings his particular sensibility to this thought provoking piece. His work, based in movement and told in an inherently theatrical style, has always dealt with the vastness of human conditions as told through the observance of small everyday gestures and their meanings. This shorthand movement vocabulary (consisting of traditional miming and gestures that are easily identifiable) allows the actors to be both profane and profound at the same time, constantly creating a duality ,is moved to tears.
*Indicates member of Actor’s Equity Association (AEA).
Contact: THOM FOGARTY (212) 924.4142 LTFOGARTY (at) AOL.COM
Directions
Judson Memorial Church is located at 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012.
Subway stops: W. 4th on the ACE / F/ B / M and the NYU-8th St. on the N / R, and Christopher St. on the 1/2.
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