Cavedweller
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 8, 2003
Closed Jun 1, 2003
Opened May 8, 2003
Closed Jun 1, 2003
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Running Time:
2hr. 30min.
2hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Dorothy Allison's best-selling novel, Cavedweller is adapted for the stage by Kate Moira Ryan. Michael Greif directs this powerful work that tells the tale of a former rock star who must pay for her past -- reclaiming her two abandoned daughters and reuniting the family she'd torn apart years ago.
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Dorothy Allison's thick and passionate 1998 novel Cavedweller, in which an ex-rock singer called Delia Byrd and her three daughters haltingly make their way through figurative caves of the heart and head towards the light of day, isn't the likeliest candidate for stage adaptation. It's an unwieldy enterprise; in fact, Allison has said that she'd break it up into two novels were she writing it today.
Nevertheless, adapted for the stage it has been by Kate Moira Ryan, who was commissioned to do so by Michael Greif when he was still artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse. Now, the two-act work has been brought to Manhattan as part of the New York Theatre Workshop's series "Cradle and All[...]