by Stephen Belber
directed by Brian Jucha
Premiered March 2000 at the Actors
Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays, Louisville,
Kentucky.
Starring Dominic
Fumusa as Vince, Stephen Kunken as Jon, Erica Yoder as Amy
What's the statute of limitations
for betrayal of friendship? When Jon attends the premiere of his flick in
the Lansing Film Festival, he faces the most important weekend of his young
life - but not in ways he expected. His old pal, Vince has been stewing
for a decade and their high school girlfiend, Amy is now the assistant district
attorney in Lansing. Edgy humor gives way to a fiery confrontation that
examines the motives of memory and perception.
Set Design:
Paul Owen
Lighting design: Greg Sullivan
Costumes: Suttirat Larlarb
Sound design: Martin R. Desjardins
Stage Manager: Charles M. Turner III
Dramaturg: Michael Dixon
Assistant Stage Manager: Juliet Penna
Fight Director: Drew Fracher
Casting: Laura Richin Casting |
"Brilliantly
directed.
Brian Jucha has done an exquisite job."
- Ridgelea Reports
"Brian Jucha's staging
is taut and carefully paced. The performances bristle with an undercurrent
of violence. Stephen Belber lures us into the story with deft, casual dialogue
craftily laden with unspoken uneasiness, and tosses in clever plot twists
to keep us on our toes.."
- San Francisco Examiner
"Belber's work received
a fine Brian Jucha staging featuring beautifully balanced performances."
- LA Times
"Director Brian Jucha makes
the most of Belber's rueful sense of humor and injects a funny physicality
into a play that could be deadly earnest."
- Louisville Courier Journal
Photos:
Richard Trigg, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Presented
by special arrangement with The Joyce Ketay Agency. Originally produced
by Access Theatre Inc.
* TAPE was made into a major motion picture and
released in November, 2001, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan
Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and Uma Thurman*
** TAPE was subsequently presented in a new
production in January of 2003 at Stamford Center for the Arts in Connecticut. |
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