Door Wide Open
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Opened May 17, 2003
Closed Jun 22, 2003
Opened May 17, 2003
Closed Jun 22, 2003
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Door Wide Open is a new play based on the love letters of novelist Johnson and infamous Beat poet Jack Kerouac. In January, 1957 Allen Ginsberg set up a blind date between 34 year-old Jack Kerouac and 21year-old Joyce Johnson. The two began a stormy love affair that lasted for 22 months -- a period which included the publishing of Kerouac's seminal work On The Road. Kerouac spent much of his time drinking and traveling -- roaming Africa with William Burroughs, visiting his mother in Florida, and on a national publicity tour -- writing to Johnson throughout. Door Wide Open uses Jack and Joyce's actual letters to chronicle an ill-fated, tempestuous relationship between two writers.
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Nobody said that dating an artist is easy, and this especially holds true for the lover of a Beat poet. The Beats were never known for their fidelity; rather, they were known for their rampant alcoholism and drug use.
Jack Kerouac was certainly no exception. In fact, he epitomized the itinerant lifestyle with On the Road and made the restless Dean Moriarty the hero of his age. Women were drawn to the sense of excitement and adventure that Kerouac exuded. Joyce Johnson saw in him an escape from the conventional life of a 1950s woman, but this nice Jewish girl looked for commitment in all the wrong places.
How could Johnson have expected to bring stability to Kerouac's life? It's hard for [...]