Red-Haired Thomas
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 9, 2009
Closed Mar 28, 2009
Opened Mar 9, 2009
Closed Mar 28, 2009
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Running Time:
1hr. 20min.
1hr. 20min.
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http://www.SohoThinkTank.org
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Fresh from the 2008 Ice Factory Festival, the Obie Award winning Soho Think Tank presents Red-Haired Thomas, written by STT Artistic Director Robert Lyons and directed by Oliver Butler, co-Artistic Director of The Debate Society.
Professional gambler Cliff has got it bad. His daughter doesn't need him, his wife might leave him, and his newspaper vender Iftikhar, whose mother country is at war, just might kill him. Witness Cliff's darkly comic, spiraling descent into a paranoid mythology of power-point presentations, rolls of quarters and hostage videos. Can our migraine-plagued redheaded founding father Thomas Jefferson save the day? Enter with caution into a desperation-filled dreamscape, where the sanest inhabitant may be Thomas Jefferson. (With songs.)
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As you enter the Soho Think Tank's production of Robert Lyons' shaky political satire Red-Haired Thomas, now at the Ohio Theatre, you walk down a royal blue carpet past suspended images of various Founding Fathers of the United States. The blue runner winds its way in a U-shape around the apron of the stage, while surrounding both sides of the playing area -- which is littered with white stacks of newspapers -- are a set of seven pillars draped in dark red cloth. It's not until you sit and take in this sight (designed by Tom Gleeson) that the giant, abstract image of a United States flag takes hold.
The lights then come up on a sickly old man with sore feet and crippling migraines who turns[...]