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  Late to the Republique  
 

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By Brook Stowe 
with Shelleen Kostabi, Richard Omar and Tamara Van Leeuwen
Directed & Designed by Eileen Connolly
performed May 2006 

 

Wallis Knot's recent production is being prepared for touring to future theatre festivals.  During the fall, the company will also work on a film version of the play.  This production was made possible by support from the School for Film and Television.

 

For free tickets to the upcoming remounting of the production email wallis@wallisknot.org

 

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Paris.  An affair with a French man.  She can't sleep after making love, stays up all night watching badly dubbed old movies.  Gone With The Wind.  The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers.  Casablanca.  She can only make sense of her life through films.  She films her own tearful jealous breakdown.  She stalks her lover and films him at a cafe with another woman.  Is it real? Is it film? Is it a dream?  Images overlap in her mind as  locations shift from the Republique Metro stop to the cemetery of Pere Lachaise to the rumpled sheets of the lovers' bed to the Right Bank Cafe where new lovers dance.  Voices and apparitions haunt her and drive her on to her ruin.

 

 

 

 

 

for more information on plays by Brook Stowe visit www.theater2K.com 

 

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"But he is asleep before Atlanta burns and I hold him like a child in my arms, his breathing sliding into the rhythm of the night, of the trains passing outside and still the moment is perfect.

Unbroken. Blessed.

("Oh, Rhett! Where will I go? What will I do?")

I pull him close to me feel how he fits around me like we are one perfect without any time without anything or anyone between us. My arms around him. Sound of his heart. Soft rhythmic thumping mixing with the sound of the Metro."

 

 

 

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Other plays by Brook Stowe include Fast Car, Idol Eyes (NYSAF/Powerhouse Theater), and October (Rude Guerrilla Theater Co.). Beyond the plays, Brook is founder and editor of the alt-theater webzine, www.theater2k.com, editor of the New York Theater Review (Black Wave Press, 2005) and co-theater editor of the Brooklyn Rail. He is currently at work on a video documentary of NYC performance artists Alec Duffy, Julie Atlas Muz and Taylor Mac.

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