Ether Steeds
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Aug 14, 2009
Closed Aug 24, 2009
1hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)
Visit the Ether Steeds website:
http://www.ethersteeds.com
FESTIVAL INFORMATION:
This show is part of the FringeNYC 2009 Festival.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
In this evocative, magical new play set in coastal North Carolina, cheap beer and anonymous gentlemen spur Mom and her venus-fly-trap obsessed daughter, Skeeta, toward the inevitable…
Ether Steeds comes to FringeNYC after a Lincoln Center showcase as a result of the 2007-2008 Dramatist's Guild Fellowship, and was partially published in The Dramatist magazine. Ether Steeds received an evening of development at the Public Theater's Director's Lab, was a finalist for the 2008 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and a workshop production at Carnegie Mellon in 2007.
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[Ed. Note: This is the fifth in a series of TM review roundups of shows in the 13th annual New York International Fringe Festival.]
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"If you don't shape the dark, it shapes you." That's the advice that a father bestows upon his daughter in Jason Williamson's poetic play, Ether Steeds, at the Actors Playhouse Theatre. Giving words to the unknown and telling stories to explain the world are the primary themes of this compelling and thought-provoking work about damaged individuals. Such tales don't necessarily make things better, but it does allow the characters to connect to one another, and offers the possibility of hope amidst hardship.
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