12.01.2005
Stage noir?
The talent of Dennis Lehane would seem to know no bounds. The author of seven fantastic crime novels (including the movie-spawning Mystic River), has written a play, Coronado. Sarah Weinman at Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind saw it and says it's "really, really good" and "not to be missed."
The play is based on Lehane's widely anthologized 2004 short story, "Until Gwen," a story that began, "Your father picks you up from prison in a stolen Dodge Neon with an 8-ball of coke in the glove compartment and a hooker named Mandy in the back seat." The play, Sarah writes, expands on that original story, and deals with various people confronting situations in a small bar in rural America. It debuted this week at the Invisible City Theatre Company in New York. Here's hoping it goes wide, travels or is adapted for film... or all three.
The play is based on Lehane's widely anthologized 2004 short story, "Until Gwen," a story that began, "Your father picks you up from prison in a stolen Dodge Neon with an 8-ball of coke in the glove compartment and a hooker named Mandy in the back seat." The play, Sarah writes, expands on that original story, and deals with various people confronting situations in a small bar in rural America. It debuted this week at the Invisible City Theatre Company in New York. Here's hoping it goes wide, travels or is adapted for film... or all three.
