New Play '...Double Vision' to Run as Part of FringeNYC

Don't Say Miami and Joshua P. Weiss will present the New York premiere of Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich's play ...Double Vision, directed by Ari Laura Kreith (Contracts, Memory Play: A Fragment).  The show will be presented as part of the 11th Annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC 2007, which runs from August 10th through August 26th, 2007. ...Double Vision will be performed at The Linhart Theater, 440 Lafayette Street, 3rd floor (between Astor Place and E. 4th Street).

The play, according to press materials, "is a dark romantic comedy about urban singles running from their hearts' desires - smack into a brick wall. It looks at city life and the twisted relationships it inspires. It's a quirky tale about men and women and the relationships they run from. At the center of the story is Dave, who's afraid to tell his girlfriend to turn down a job transfer across the country in California. The more he resists the urge to tell her to stay, the more he loses his grip on reality, identifying closer and closer with the naked man in the subway. Around him, his roommates and friends are also living out their relationship fears - with sometimes-tragic consequences. Mark keeps company with only married women to minimize the risk of getting in to deep. And the older Ben beds only nubile beauties, telling himself he's their age...in spirit anyway. Celia avoids love, working the nightshift and Mary escapes up the corporate ladder. Michelle is young and has never been hurt, but all that's about to change..."

...Double Vision joins FringeNYC 2007 after a reading at Playwrights Horizons directed by Mark Brokaw. Productions of Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich's plays include Absolute Flight: A Reality Show With Wings at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival, Hitting The Wall off-Broadway at the 2006 Summer Play Festival, The Woman With Orange Hands at Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boy Girl Boy Girl at Trinity Repertory Company, Three A.M. at Chicago's CollaborAction Theatre, and June in White at Boston's New Theatre. She has had readings of her work performed in New York at Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Women's Project and Productions, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. 

The six-member cast will include Christopher McCann as Ben (Tony Kushner's A Dybbuk, John Guare's Lydie Breeze, as well as Howard Korder's The Lights at Lincoln Center Theater, for which he received a Drama Desk nomination and an OBIE); Shane Jacobsen (Dorian Gray: The Musical) as Dave, Linda Jones (The Country Wife at the McGinn Cazale) as Celia, Quinn Mattfeld (The Apotheosis of Vaclav Drda) as Mark, and Rebecca Henderson (Baby Face, bobrauschenbergamerica) as Mary.

The set and costume design will be by Michael Wilson Morgan, the lighting design by Antoinette Stokes, and the sound design by Ben Morss.

The performance dates and times for the play will be: Friday, August 10 at 9:30 p.m.; Saturday, August 11 at 2:15 p.m.; Friday, August 17 at 3:00 p.m.; Wednesday, August 22 at 8:45 p.m.; and Friday, August 24 at 5:00 p.m.

All tickets will be $15.00. For tickets in New York call 212-279-4488 or Outside New York 1-888-FringeNYC or visit www.fringenyc.org. For more information, please visit www.DoubleVisionFringeNYC.com. 

Photo by Jim Baldassare - Shane Jacobsen (as Dave) gets lost and naked in the subway

 

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