"GONE" Promo Video

Gone by Charles L. Mee
February 9 - March 2, 2008
http://www.crowdedfire.org

Shoresh Alaudini
Kalli Jonsson
Mollena Williams
Marilee Talkington
in "Gone"




A Lover pleas. An invalid anquishes. A blogger blogs. What does it all mean? A collage of the human experience, Charles Mee's GONE bears witness to fragments of people at their most tender, their most frightened, and their most poignant as they struggle to thrive against the clock, and time is gone.




Directed by Marissa Wolf, featuring ensemble members Mollena Williams (actor), Cliff Caruthers (sound), Jarrod Fischer (lights), and Alycia Dymond (stage management).

Mankind is under a magnifying glass in Gone. Charles L. Mee, who the New York Times' Jonathan Kalb says "has pulled off impressive feats of literary juggling" weaves a collage of text from the lost writings of Sophocles, excerpts from Proust, The NY Times Obituaries, and his own plays. Mr. Mee describes his plays as "broken, jagged, filled with sharp edges, filled with things that take sudden turns, careen into each other, smash up, veer off in sickening turns" also saying that he likes to put them "—with some sense of struggle remaining—into a classical form, a Greek form, or a beautiful dance theatre piece, or some other effort at civilization."

Gone thoughtfully exposes the most charged and the most mundane of the human experience in a poetic, visceral collage for the stage. Be it a recounted nightmare, a lover's plea, or a blogger's simple account of her day, the longings of life are achingly explored. As time slips by, characters grapple to communicate their deepest thoughts, love to the fullest, struggle to recreate a memory, and live life with signifigance before time is gone.


WHEN:
February 9-March 2, 2008
Preview: February 9, 2008
Open: February 11, 2008
Close: March 2, 2008
Run: Thursdays -- Sundays
Time: Sundays at 5pm, all other shows at 8pm.


WHERE:
San Francisco Playhouse, Stage II
533 Sutter Street, SF

Category:

Entertainment

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• fire
• gone
• san
• fancisco
• playhouse
• mollena
• williams
• marissa
• wolf
• charles
• mee
• theater

[GShotsTV]

The tribute videos I did on Dan Cusick capture many of those special moments in the lives of the people around him as they know all too soon that he is about to be "Gone".

[only1lestat]

I just wanted to say that this video was very well put together. Very intersting stuff. I commend you on the video editing.

[GoodnDrunk]

So glad someone captured Rissy and Mollena talking about this work. Fascinating stuff. More, please!

[Monkkeystew]

gorgeous! smart and engaging and funny. Mollena's laugh is mighty.(and this production of GONE IS magnificent!! I saw the opening.)