A Disaster Begins
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 9, 2009
Closed Oct 17, 2009
Opened Oct 9, 2009
Closed Oct 17, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Veanne Cox stars in the New York premiere of Ain Gordon's one-woman play, A Disaster Begins, a fictional account of the hurricane that destroyed Galveston in 1900.
The show finds Cox on stage equipped with little more than a glass and pitcher of water to tell her tale of the storm, weaving in her shocking experience of presidential corruption, pubescent despair, patriotic fervor, pre-marital passion and paralyzing writer's block.
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Ain Gordon's fascinating A Disaster Begins, now playing at HERE Arts Center, is a marvel of ideas and stories, made even more marvelous by its star, Veanne Cox.
The proceedings begin deceptively simply. Scratchy recordings of a pianist playing ragtime waft through the theater and there's a quaintly lettered black and white projection on a blackboard announcing the lecture that's to come. Soon, Muriel Halstead (Cox) enters -- looking like a tightly wound spinster school teacher in gray tweed jacket and ankle-length skirt -- and theatergoers may think that Gordon has concocted a charming old-time entertainment of sorts.
But, those expectations are dashed when Muriel distractedly announces th[...]