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From the writer of "Shakespeare in Love,"
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and "Arcadia" comes another
beautifully written script and story...
A.E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, but his memories are
dramatically alive. The river flowing through this play connects Hades with
the Oxford of Housman's early manhood, where high Victorianism in art,
literature and morality is being challenged by the aesthetic movement and an
Irish student, called Wilde, is about to burst onto the scene. The
Invention of Love uses the free form of memory to give a sympatric
account of Housman in the age of Oscar Wilde, and it asks whose passion was
really the fatal one?
Excerpts from previous reviews of the play:
 | “So beautifully constructed that the playwright seems to be
discovering his play only one jump ahead of the audience. It has that
sense of surprise and wonder.” –Vincent Canby, The New York Times
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| “Some of the finest, most passionate, and most disarmingly brilliant
dramatic writing that he has given us.” –Alastair Macaulay, The
Financial Times |
Produced by Rich Klare
Directed by Michael Kharfen
About the director:
Michael Kharfen has directed both a one-act play (Fin and Euba)
and a full-length production (Wit). Fin and Euba is a
two-character, original play that he directed for Silver Spring Stage’s 2003
One-Act Festival and was selected to represent the Stage at the Maryland
Theater Festival where it won several awards including overall production,
acting, technical excellence and direction. It then went on to be presented
at the Eastern States Theater Festival where it also won overall production,
acting, direction and other awards. Wit was produced in January, 2004
at Silver Spring Stage and received the 2004 Ruby Griffith Award for All
Round Production Excellence. Michael has spent the past nine years in the
Washington area immersed in theater both on stage and off. He has acted in
numerous productions, produced four full-stage productions, a one-act
festival and two one-acts, assist as artistic liaison on two shows, and
serve in various technical capacities: run lights and sound and crew, stage
manage performances, build and paint sets, collect props, and anything else
that needed to get done.
Production Dates: January 27 - February 18, 2006
Auditions: November
6 & 7, 2005
Produced by special arrangement with
Samuel French, Inc.
ESP Productions are partially supported by grants from the
The Town of Herndon, The Nelson and Katherine Post Foundation, the Virginia
Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. |
