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BASH BY NEIL LABUTE PRESENTED BY HUDSON THEATRE WORKS

Weehawken Water Tower
Weehawken, NJ


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Neil Labute's Bash is a collection of three darkly brilliant one-act plays. In "Medea Redux", a woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her junior high-school English teacher. In "Iphigenia in Orem", a Utah businessman confides in a stranger in a Las Vegas hotel room, confessing to an especially chilling crime. In a "Gaggle of Saints", a young couple separately recount the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City. All three are unblinking portraits of the evils that are abroad in everyday life; each is distinguished by the raw and yet lyrical intensity that has become Neil Labute's signature.

Neil Labute (Playwright) burst onto the filmmaking scene at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival with his feature debut, In the Company of Men. The film went on to win the Filmmaker Trophy at the festival, as well as the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Feature. In addition to Sundance, it screened at the Cannes, Edinburgh, and Deauville Film Festivals and won two Independent Spirit Awards. Following on the success of In the Company of Men, LaBute continued to push boundaries on screen and stage and has established himself as both a leading playwright and film writer/director. Among his films are Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, The Shape of Things, Lakeview Terrace, Some Velvet Morning and the short films sexting and BFF. His most recent feature film is Dirty Weekend, starring Matthew Broderick and Alice Eve. It is currently in post-production and will premiere fall of 2014. LaBute's plays have been Tony and Olivier Award nominated and staged throughout the world. They include bash: latter-day plays, The Shape of Things, The Mercy Seat, The Distance From Here, Autobahn, Fat Pig, Some Girl(s), This Is How It Goes, Wrecks, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, In a Dark Dark House, reasons to be pretty (Tony Award nominated for Best Play), The Break of Noon, In A Forest, Dark And Deep, Reasons to Be Happy and the forthcoming MCC premiere The Money Shot. LaBute is also the author of Seconds of Pleasure, a collection of short fiction which was published by Grove Atlantic.

Frank Licato (Director) is Artistic Director of Hudson Theatre Works where he recently directed Of Mice and Men, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and 3 Men, which will be seen in the United Solo Festival this fall. He has worked with such theatre luminaries as Joseph Chaiken, Peter Brook and Robert Brustein.  As a director he received an Ap-plause Award from the New Jersey Theatre Alliance and a Perry Award for Best Direc-tor for The Grapes of Wrath at the Chatham Playhouse. He was named Best Director by the Off-Broadway revue for his production of Sam Shepard's Seduced. His production of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things was selected as a regional finalist in the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival. His production of Robert Clem's Fever was voted a top 10 show at the 2001 New York International Fringe Festival and his production of On the Waterfront was made into the award winning documentary, Waiting for Budd.  He is a member of the Actors Studio Playwright and Director Unit.

ACTORS:

KEVIN CRISTALDI in IPHIGENIA IN OREM (Man) Kevin's television credits include Criminal Minds, Gilmore Girls, Numbers, Medium, The Unit, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  His theater credits are:  Impasto (Nylon Fusion Theater), When I Come to Die (Kansas City Rep), Next Fall (Florida Studio Theatre), The Dirty Talk (Center Stage, NYC), Eddie Legs (Lillian Theatre, L.A. Weekly Theater Award nomination), Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Schoolhouse Theatre, NY), The Strip (Evidence Room, L.A., company member), The Last Station (Vermont Stage), Importance of Being Earnest (Two Rivers Theater, NJ), The Miser (Hartford Stage), and the title role in Hamlet (Arden Theatre, Philadelphia). He has appeared off-Broadway in A Dish for the Gods (The Lion Thea-ter), Message to Michael (Rattlestick Theater), and has worked with the Labyrinth Thea-ter Co., terraNova Collective, and Vampire Cowboys.

DAN HILT in A GAGGLE OF SAINTS (John) most recently appeared in the Oscar nom-inated movie Foxcatcher.  Other film and TV credit include:  American Gangster, Law and Order, The Sopranos, What Would You Do.  His theatrical credits include work with:  Actors Shakespeare Company, The Playwrights Theater of NJ and the Summit Play-house.

TARA CIOLETTI in A GAGGLE OF SAINTS  (Sue) Tara's theatre roles include Stop Kiss, Inspecting: Romeo and Juliet , Antony and Cleopatra: Infinite Lives (NYC Fringe Festival Debut), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2012 Perry Award  Best Lead Actress), Our House, Beyond Therapy, Prelude to a Kiss. Rabbit Hole ; films include Abel and Cain, Time Signature and Meme.

KRISTEN LAZZARINI in MEDIA REDUX (Woman) Most recently was in the Raucous production of The Tempest as Stephano and Sebastian in Astoria. Past credits in-clude: The title role in Marisol, The Crucible (Elizabeth Procter), Dead Man's Cell Phone (Hermia), The Balcony (Carmen) and Five Flights (Jane) amongst others.  She is a graduate of the Rutgers Theater Program.

Scenic and lighting design is by resident designer John Shimrock. Sound and music design is by resident musician Donald Stark, costumes by resident designer Ann Lowe, stage manager Dawn D'Arrigo, produced by Karen Brady and Gregory Erbach, founding members of HTW.

Hudson Theatre Works is a not for profit, equity theatre committed to ensemble collabo-ration as well as artistic risk through its work with its permanent company, guest artists, partner institutions and the surrounding community.  It is dedicated to a rugged aesthetic and seeks to tell stories, both new and old, classic and contemporary, which reflect our lives, relationships and world today.

Hudson Theatre Works primary focus is in bringing a living theatre community to the area of Hudson and North Jersey through performance, outreach and theatre arts instruction.

This program is made possible by the City of Weehawken and Mayor Richard Turner
and in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Thomas A. Degise, County Executive and the Board of Chosen Freeholders.


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Please contact Hudson Theatre Works at (201) 472-5123 for more information.

Location
  Weehawken Water Tower
4100 Park Avenue,
Weehawken, NJ 07086
United States
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Dates
 
First: Wednesday May 13, 2015 8:00 PM
Last: Saturday May 30, 2015 8:00 PM

Prices
 
$10.00 - $30.00

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Who: Hudson Theatre Works

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Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: No

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