TAPE (LOUISVILLE 2000)

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

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"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

 

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 directed by Jucha in January of 2003 at Stamford Center for the Arts in Connecticut.

 

Photos: Richard Trigg, Actors Theatre of Louisville