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Geometry of Fire is Coming....

GEOMETRY OF FIRE
written by Stephen Belber
directed by Lucie Tiberghien
Nov 12 – Dec 14, 2008

An investment banker turned Marine sniper recently returned from Iraq; a Saudi-American who just wants to get laid. In any other world, these two guys would be best friends. But when their lives collide in this one, each are forced to survive on the fly. Based on a true story.

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Stephen Belber (Playwright). Stephen’s most recent play, Fault Lines is currently enjoying a Naked Angels production at The Cherry Lane Theatre. Other plays include Match (Broadway), A Small, Melodramatic Story, (LAByrinth Theater Company), McReele (Roundabout), Tape (Naked Angels—NYC/LA/London), Carol Mulroney (Huntington Theater), and One Million Butterflies (Primary Stages). As a screenwriter, he adapted his play Tape, (directed by Richard Linklater, starring Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke; Sundance, Berlin); The Laramie Project (co-writer for HBO Films; Sundance, Emmy nomination for screenwriting); and Drifting Elegant, (directed by Amy Glazer.) TV credits include Rescue Me and Law & Order: SVU, (staff writer). His film Management, which he wrote and directed, starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this September.

Lucie Tiberghien (Director). Credits include The Things We Know, (a short film which Lucie co-wrote and directed) Hurt Village, by Katori Hall, (BRIC) and the world premieres of A Small Melodramatic Story by Stephen Belber (LAByrinth) and Augusta by Richard Dresser (Contemporary American Theater Festival). Other recent credits: Geometry of Fire, (Sundance), Hoodoo Love, (Katori Hall, Cherry Lane), Air Conditioning (Tommy Smith, Juilliard). Lucie directed Rattlestick’s production of Craig Wright’s The Pavilion, which received a 2005 Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Play of 2005.

MEET THE CAST:
Jeffrey DeMunn (Last Days of Judas Iscariot, at LAB, film: The Green Mile, Burn After Reading)
Donnie Keshawarz (Broadway’s Tarzan, FX’s Damages),
Jennifer Mudge (Fault Lines, The Pavilion at Rattlestick)
and Kevin O’Donnell (Off Broadway debut).

The creative team is comprised of Robin Vest (sets), Anne Kennedy (costumes), Peter West (lights), Broken Chord Collective (sound), Mary Robinette Kowal (props), Rick Sordelet (fight choreography) and Brian Smallwood (technical director). Katrina Renee Herrmann is Production Stage Manager, Alyssa Ritch is Assistant Stage Manager, and Alice Reagan will serve as Assistant Director.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

Wednesday – Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm.
Tickets are $40.00 and are available through SmartTix (212-868-4444) or www.smarttix.com.

Or get the remaining three shows of the season (including Geometry!) for only $75.

Special Benefit Performance:
Night Out with Stephen Belber’s Geometry of Fire
Tuesday November 18, 2008
6:30 pm: Agave Restaurant (140 Seventh ave South)
8:00 pm: Rattlestick Theater (224 Waverly Place)
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