Dreams of Escape at Eddie Goes to Poetry City on Stage at Catastrophic Theatre

There's something about avant-garde playwright Richard Foreman's work that actor/director/designer Greg Dean finds deeply moving and funny.Eddie Goes to Poetry CityThe story's theme is one that many people can relate to: Eddie wishes to escape the life he has. His destination of choice is a little more singular: Poetry City. As usual — in what is a very unusual telling — he finds that all is not paradise once he arrives with his personal baggage in tow.

Dean is directing this one-act, 75-minute play and one of his challenges is providing guidance to his actors "I have the hardest time talking about it, but I'm not in bad company. I watched a documentary that was made in the mid-, late '90s . Somebody just filmed a rehearsal and apparently Foreman himself has a hard time trying to [explain his work] to the actors."

In further explaining what attracts him about Foreman's writing, Dean said:"I would read the plays and be really really into them and not understand why. For years I only had access to his writings whether plays, manifestos, essays and I hadn’t seen any of his work and when I finally did get to see some — a video tape — he was doing the kind of stuff I was interested in but he started doing it the year that I was born.

"I keep telling the actors 'This is your chance to do everything you're not allowed to do, everything they've rung out of you in drama school. Indicate, over-emote, telegraph your intent. Play stereotypes.' It feels enough like a story that people have had a good time in the past."

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