TOSOS
II
(Doric Wilson - Mark Finley - Barry Childs)
in
association with Peculiar
Works Project
celebrating the origins of off-off-Broadway
presents
9 pm - Fri April 6, 13, 20 & Thurs April 26 - 2007
directed by Mark Finley
Adam: Matt Rashid
Silvadorf: Chris Weikel Urhelancia: Nick MathewsDisenchatralista: Roberto Cambeiro
Eve: Jamie Heinlein
stage manager/assistant director: Frederic Gravenson
producer: Barry Childsset designer: Michael Muccio costumes: Chris Weikel title graphic: Howard Cruse
back: Nick Mathews, Chris Weikel; front: Jamie Heinlein; Roberto Cambeiro photo by Ed Bodey
Located within The West Bank Café - 407 W. 42nd at 9th Ave - NYC
When Doric Wilson’s And He Made a Her opened at the Caffé Cino in 1961 it was a great success. In the words of playwright Robert Patrick, the comedy "helped establish the Cino as a venue for new plays, and materially contributed to the then-emerging concept of Off-Off Broadway." A satirical take on humanity’s foremost couple, And He Made a Her was the first Off-Off-Broadway play to move Off-Broadway (Cherry Lane Theater, 1962) and to make it onto the regional circuit (Stables Theater, Detroit, 1963). It also overnight established Doric Wilson as a "major new playwriting voice in American theater" (producer Richard Barr, New York Post, 1962).
Last year TOSOS II joined with The Peculiar Works Project to begin an ongoing celebration of the origins of off-off-Broadway with a critically acclaimed production of Lanford Wilson’s The Madness of Lady Bright starring Michael Lynch. They join together again to present this limited run of a landmark play.
This production of And He Made A Her is dedicated to Pamela Brown, Andrew & Mary Gerber, Jane Lowry and Hoyt & Susan Thiss , whose generous support has made this evening possible. And He Made A Her is a 2007 Lambda Award nominee and published in a special edition by United Stages that includes a CD of the original 1961 Caffé Cino production (for sale in the back).