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Denis Johnson's Nobody Move a new play from Campo Santo and Intersection
San Francisco, CA March 7, 2011 Intersection for the Arts and Resident Theatre Company Campo Santo, present the next project in the special, ongoing relationship with Campo Santo Resident Playwright and National Book Award Winning writer Denis Johnson. This new play created from Johnson's latest book Nobody Move marks the 10th original theatre project created with Denis Johnson and Campo Santo, a creative partnership that has spanned nine critically acclaimed, adventurous, award-winning
World Premiere collaborations. Nobody Move is in many ways Denis Johnson's own noir piece and also the book that followed his opus award winning novel Tree of Smoke. This play follows in the trajectory of plays that include Soul of A Whore, Des Moines, Hellhound On My Trail, and many others. Nobody Move also reunites many of the actors in the informal Denis Johnson company from Campo Santo including Catherine Castellanos, Margo Hall, Donald Lacy, and Michael Torres and also includes Daveed Diggs (who appeared in 2010 in Chinaka Hodge's Mirrors In Every Corner), Brian Rivera (who played Oscar Wao in Fuku Americanus), Tommy Shepherd (Campo Santo member and Felonious Co-Founder), and Melyssa Jo Kelly in her Campo Santo performance debut.
Creative Collaborative Team: Alejandro Acosta, Suzanne Castillo, Jim Cave, Kat Evasco, Ben Fisher, Florentino Gonzales, Pak Han, Arturo Lozano, Joan Osato, and Tanya Orellana
The story follows Jimmy Luntz a life long gambler who is met by debt collectors as the play opens. Luntz pushes his luck and incurs the wrath of the debt collectors, Gambol and Juarez, putting them on his trail for the entirety of the piece. On a parallel path, we follow Anita, at the end of her line with her marriage, caught up in a scandal involving a missing 2 million dollars. Fate smashes these two together as we watch all these multiple pairs - including Jimmy and Anita, Gambol and an army vet Mary, Capra and Solly two hideout owners hiding from the syndicate - all navigating their last goes at making it. Told in a series of taught close ups, with Johnson's inimitable terse and one of kind language, this will be one wild ride.
"When Johnson decided he wanted to become a playwright, Campo Santo wasan easy choice for him. Blessed with abundant and sympathetic talent, the company offered him a place to experiment outside the limelight. Another part of the equation is the troupe's multiracial and blue-collar roots, a rarity in the world of theater, which offer an organic connection with America's underclass and a unique empathy with the battered hopes and ordinary hells of life outside the mainstream." - San Francisco Magazine
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LocationIntersection for the Arts
925 Mission Street at 5th Street in the historic San Francisco Chronicle Buildin
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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