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THE REAGAN YEARS by Dominic Orlando
It's the end of the Reagan era, and the Danger Brothers, four college buddies, have been partying nonstop. As their graduation looms, business-like Walkman prepares to go to work for the Boyd family. Frisbee expects to continue his stoner ways, and Moth, the brilliant artist, keeps his focus on the work he makes. John Boyd Jr., the leader, the golden boy, and the son of one of the wealthiest men in the country, can only think about the gorgeous hitchhiker he picked up on his morning motorcycle ride. When a seeming accident at his father's company creeps into their world, is this the day when the Danger Brothers finally feel the hangover? Or, are they ready to graduate to bigger and better crimes?
The Reagan Years, the third show in the Workhaus Collective's 8th season as company-in-residence at the Playwrights Center, promises laughs and jolts in a marriage of 80s excess (Bret Easton Ellis-style) and theater mayhem.
STARRING
Charlotte Calvert, Michael Hanna, Paul LaNave, Gabriel Murphy, Bryan Porter and Jessie Scarborough-Ghent with design by Mike Kittel, John Bueche, Peter Morrow, Theresa Akers, and Lucas Skjaret.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Dominic Orlando is a two-time Jerome fellow and McKnight Fellow through The Playwrights' Center. Recent Commissions: screenplay adaptation of his Danny Casolaro (Caliber Media/Aviation Films), adaptation of Don DeLillo's Hammer & Sickle (Arts Emerson, Boston), World Without End (Guthrie Theater/University of Minnesota). Danny Casolaro recently had its Midwest premiere at TimeLine Theater in Chicago. Dominic devised and wrote text with Theatre Forever for The Nature Crown which premiered at The Guthrie Theater last month. He's a co-writer on KBEM's Jazz Noir, recording live at the Dakota Jazz Club, also in April. Locally, he's worked with History Theatre, Red Eye, The Jungle, and Off-Leash Area (among others). He's a co-creator with Workhaus & Theatre de La Jeune Lune of Fissures: Lost and Found, commissioned by the Playwrights' Center and Actor's Theatre of Louisville, premiered at The Humana Festival of New American Plays, and published by Dramatic Publishing. With Workhaus: A Short Play About Globalization, The Sense of What Should Be, and A Short Play About 9/11.
ABOUT WORKHAUS COLLECTIVE:
Unlike other theaters, each playwright member becomes the Artistic Director of the company for their production, taking complete responsibility and creative control of the artistic vision that ultimately finds its way to the stage. Workhaus members include writers Trista Baldwin, Alan Berks, Jeannine Coulombe, Carson Kreitzer, Dominic Orlando, Joe Waechter, and Stanton Wood. Emeritus members include Deborah Stein, Cory Hinkle, and Victoria Stewart. For more information: www.workhauscollective.org
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LocationPlaywrights' Center (View)
2301 E. Franklin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55406
United States
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| Minimum Age: 17 |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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