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The Crumple Zone
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The Crumple Zone Written by Buddy Thomas Directed by Jason Moore June 28, 2000 – October 29, 2000 with Josh Briton Mario Cantone Gerald Downey Steve Matteo Paul Pecorino Set Design: Dawn Robyn Petrlik Costume Design: David Mills Lighting Design: Ed McCarthy Sound Design: Laura Grace Brown Choreography: Peter Kapetan Fight Consultant: B. H. Barry PSM: Gail Eve Malatesta ASM: Michael Biondi Technical Director: Jeff Duer |
Jason Moore directs Buddy Thomas’ new dark comedy, featuring actor Mario Cantone. Five very different men must confront questions of love, infidelity, and friendship over one frantic holiday weekend. Terry, an out of work actor, shares a cramped apartment with two friends who aren’t doing much better: Alex’s big gig is playing Santa Claus at the Staten Island Mall, while Alex’s boyfriend Matt is on a rickety national tour of Salem’s Lot: The Musical. Can things get any worse? When Matt returns home for a surprise visit, and finds Alex cheating on him, they do. The Crumple Zone received a 1998 New Voices Play Award.
FROM THE NYTIMES:
‘‘The Crumple Zone,’‘ a new play by Buddy Thomas at the Rattlestick Theater in Greenwich Village, has a lot going for it. It has a nicely structured plot about a gay household with a love triangle coming to a crisis at Christmastime; sequences of physical comedy directed by Jason Moore to be antic without being overblown into slapstick; and an effective set by Dawn Robyn Petrlik that evokes a pleasantly chintzy holiday atmosphere in a two-bedroom rental apartment on Staten Island. Most of all, it has a bristling, funny performance by Mario Cantone, who plays the squeaky wheel, a clamorously lonely man on the outside of the triangle looking in.
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