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The cast
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| David Johnston |
Zeke |
| Leslie D. Smith |
Glory |
| Sarah Hamilton |
Reggie |
| Jay Coffman |
Jason |
| Kyle Carrion |
Peter |
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The Uncurled Hand
July 10-19, 2008
The winner of our 2007 New Play Festival is Stephen Kilduff's The Uncurled Hand.
Overview of the play: The Uncurled Hand is a five-person drama about the past and the future crashing in on a man who is prepared to face neither one.
Zeke is a Vietnam-era draft resister living in contented self-exile in the New Mexico desert. His daughter, Reggie, a high school senior whose poetic voice he has nurtured, wants nothing more than to leave the only home she has ever known for the wider world. Certain that her friend Peter, who has just been accepted into the film program at N.Y.U., is unqualified for the job, she longs for a hero to rescue her.
This wish seems to be answered by the appearance of Jason, Zeke’s long-unacknowledged younger brother, who arrives bearing a gift, a bequest for Reggie from the grandmother she never knew with the potential to radically alter her future. Jason’s presence strains Zeke’s marriage (his wife Glory, a painter of desert scenes, is alarmed to learn after twenty years with Zeke that he has a brother) and threatens the isolation and control that are the foundations of his life.
The playwright: Stephen Kilduff was born in 1958 in Baltimore, Maryland, and educated in Catholic and public schools there. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Baltimore in 1982 with a B.A. in English.
In the years since, he has written and published in most forms: op-ed pieces in the Baltimore Evening Sun, fiction in The Sun Magazine, poetry in Dancing Shadow Review, fiction in New York Press, as well as essays, news articles, book reviews and music reviews in Baltimore City Paper, where he was an editor and contributing writer.
Kilduff began writing plays in 2004, and the following year he received an Individual Artist Award in Playwriting from the Maryland State Arts Council. Snow on the Stand was produced by the American Theatre of Actors in New York in August 2006. Graven Image will be produced this summer by Uncommon Voices as part of the 27th Baltimore Playwrights Festival.
The director: Dr. Brian Haimbach earned his Ph.D. in theatre with a specialization in directing and new play development from University of Georgia. He has directed extensively and performed around the country as an actor, singer and dancer. Directing credits include Hamlet, Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, Top Girls by Caryl Churchill, The Exonerated by Blank and Jensen, Amadeus by Peter Shaffer and The Rocky Horror Show as well as numerous world premieres. Professionally he has spent time with Touchstone Theatre, Chicago Dramatists and the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Brian is head of the theatre program at Greenville Technical College and is active in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Southeastern Theatre Conference and the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival.
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