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You Are Confused! - A funny and heart-breaking one-man show.
Ryan Repertory Company (Founded 1972)
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You Are Confused!
Written by Eduardo Leanez and Patrick E. Horrigan
Directed by Rosalie Purvis
Performed in English with some Spanish by Eduardo Leanez
If you wish you could travel the world with Menudo . . . if you spend hours watching telenovelas with your mother. . . if you love beauty pageants and imagine yourself as one of the contestants . . . if Jean-Claude Van Damme comes to rescue you in your dreams . . . if you can't take your eyes off of Greg Louganishis smile, his dimples, the shape of his body . . . if you are ten years old, and it's 1986 in Caracas, Venezuela, and you are a boy . . . YOU ARE CONFUSED!
Brooklyn based Ryan Repertory Company, now in it's 43rd season, is proud to present You Are Confused!, a coming-of-age story full of surprises. You Are Confused! is written by Eduardo Leanez and Patrick E. Horrigan, directed by Rosalie Purvis, and performed in English with some Spanish by Eduardo Leanez. Yoel is a hyper-active kid with a passion for boy bands, soap operas, fashion shows, action heroes, and Olympic athletes. But his greatest role model, and his toughest critic, is his mother. Fiercely devoted to her son, she is also blind to his gifts and his burgeoning sexuality. You Are Confused! takes you on a fast-moving trip through Yoel's childhood in Caracas to his young-adulthood in New York as he battles the bullies within, the bullies at home, and the bullies out there in the world.
Eduardo Leanez brilliantly embodies Yoel, his mother, all of his heroes, and much more in this funny, heart-breaking one-man show about the role models we're given, and the ones we choose, to help us become the person we were born to be.
A workshop production of You Are Confused! was greeted with rave reviews from diverse audiences and the bilingual press: Fernando Campos of Impacto NY and El Especial called the show "extravagantly funny," praising the way it "overthrows stereotypes of homosexuality"; Pablo Garcia Gamez of Hora Hispana del Daily News said You Are Confused! is a show "that talks directly to the audience and whose originality opens up a world of possibilities." A full production of the show was presented at Atlantic Stage 2 in the spring of 2012 and at Teatro LaTea as part of the 7th Annual One Festival that same season. The show was featured in the summer of 2013 as part of the 11th Annual Fresh Fruit Festival. This summer's production will be the Brooklyn premiere of You Are Confused!
You Are Confused! is the first-time collaboration between playwrights Eduardo Leanez and Patrick E. Horrigan.
Eduardo Leanez (actor and co-writer) has written and performed his solo shows Margarita, Ruben y Juan (3rd-place winner of the 2014 Monologando Ando Festival) and Delivery Boy (winner of the 2007 One Festival Short-Length Show award). As a writer, he is attracted to the immigrant, gay, and Latino experience; as an actor, he enjoys doing comedy, serious drama, and everything in between. He has trained in his native Venezuela as well as in New York and has appeared in Elvira (at Grand Valley State University in Michigan), Fork That!: Disjointed Love Shorts, Bodas de Sangre, Los Amantes del Alto Manhattan (ATI Award 2010), and The Dramaloft's Ground Zero, among others. He is currently developing Delivery Boy as a full-length play. Together, he and Mr. Horrigan host the ongoing variety show, Actors with Accents.
Patrick E. Horrigan (co-writer) is the author of the novel Portraits at an Exhibition (forthcoming this May from Lethe Press), the memoir Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies (University of Wisconsin Press), and the play Messages for Gary: A Drama in Voicemail, a critically-acclaimed hit of the 1999 New York International Fringe Festival. He teaches English at LIU Brooklyn. Together, he and Mr. Leanez host the ongoing variety show, Actors with Accents.
Rosalie Purvis (director) has directed plays, readings, and dance-theatre pieces in many venues in New York and her native Amsterdam. She has directed numerous solo shows, including My Journey of Decay and Girlmeat by Victoria Libertore and Conversation by Alexis Clements. Other recent projects include The Floodplain by Jacob M. Appel, Monotone Poncho Spatula by Mya Kagan, In Dog Years by T.D. Mitchel and the dance-theatre piece This Is Not a Burlesque: A Surrealist Burlesque. She is currently writing her own solo show, Talking Normal.
The Ryan Repertory Company was founded in 1972 and is named after Irene Ryan, most famous for her role as Granny in television's long-running The Beverly Hillbillies. She was a leading performer in theatre, film and television and her name remains synonymous with quality work in every aspect of entertainment. Ryan Rep is a center for the development of new and original theatrical events. The Company's home is the Harry Warren Theatre, named in honor of the great composer, and is located in Brooklyn, NY. For more information contact Barbara Parisi, Executive Director, at (718) 996-4800 or ryanrep@juno.com.
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2445 Bath Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11214
United States
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