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WALL (1001 NY NIGHTS)
Participant of the 15th International Istanbul Theatre Festival
Written and Directed by Handan Özbilgin
Produced by Umut Egitimci
Story Editor: David Bromley
Starring:
Roya Shanks, Cem Baza, Ryan Shogren, Garry N.Hannon, Sinem Balkir, and Cathy Richards
Kenter Theatre May 30th, 2006.
Bilkent Theatre June 3rd, 2006.
What would you do if you found a dead body at your doorstep?
A wall divides two studio apartments of a tenement building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. As the lights rise on Halloween
night, Grace, an elegant woman with a white ballroom dress bursts into one apartment followed by her husband John. John is wearing a cowboy outfit, and is lugging a heavy trash bag over his shoulder. John releases the plastic bag and the dead body hits the floor with a loud thud…
Written and Directed by Handan Özbilgin
Story Editor: David Bromley
*Reading of the play held at Chashama Studios
The Cast: Defne Halman, Roya Shanks,Cem Baza,Ryan Shogren, Garry N.Hannon, Aundre Chin, and Cathy RichardsStage directions read by Jessica Marie Smith
What would you do if you discovered a dead body outside your apartment?
A. Drink one bottle of bourbon before doing anything
B. Call police department immediately and accuse neighbors
C. Steal wallet to cover unpaid phone bills
D. Return to leather sofa to watch “American Idol”
E. All of the above
Writer & Director: Handan Özbilgin
Producer: Umut Egitimci
Assistant Director: Yonca Kayacan
Stage Manager: Mary C.Stone
Asst. Stage Manager: Mercedes Vasquez
The Cast: Cem Baza, Paul Filan, Jessica Marie Smith, Roya Shanks, Jesus A.Del Rosario,Jr.,
Cathy Richards, Sakura Sugihara, and Ugur Ünal
Lighting Designer: Pamela Rapp
Composer: Rick Zaragoza
Set Designer: Jorge Dieppa
Costume Designer: Eleni Avgousti
Video Editor: Max Kaplun
Poster Design: Necdet Yilmaz
Story Editor: David Bromley
Halloween night, Lower east side,NYC: An American couple, John and Grace, discover a dead body on the doorstep of their apartment. The frightened pair decide to pass the blame and the stuffed trash bag on their Turkish neighbors, Ruya and Cumhur. Grace is a closet voyeur who spies on “the foreigners” through a hole in the wall. Halloween costumes, FBI agents, and a shady superintendent create a surreal tone in Wall. It is a high concept-multimedia production illustrating the separation, paranoia, and fear that exists post 9/11.
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