Listen in as playwright/performer Manning Jordan, director Alice Cash, and performers Ashley Underwood & Ellie MacPherson of Dooley, performed as part of FRIGID 2018, discuss inspiration from disturbing 1960s board games, plunging psychological depths, collaboratively re-writing, re-naming in the interest of financial considerations, “sneaking around outside of classrooms” to meet your new collaborators, the benefits of inconsistent performance times, and sharing your most vulnerable self onstage.
“…my friends wouldn’t play it, they said ‘it’s all too heavy, we don’t want to get into it.’ So then I went home, and I wrote the play as if we had played it…”
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Dooley
written by Manning Jordan
directed by Alice Cash
remaining performances:
Thu Feb 22, 2018 | 7:10PM
Mon Feb 26, 2018 | 10:30PM
Sat Mar 3, 2018 | 1:40PM
The Kraine Theater
85 E. 4th Street
Manhattan
tickets: $20, available via Vendini
photos by Alice Cash