In the Castle of Eternal Sunset: A Module for Ten 0th Level Characters
By Charles Green
Directed by Erica Wray
Music by Joshua Dumas
Costumes by Adam Mummery
Produced by Morgan Grambo and Erica Wray of The Interstitial
Starring Kevin Gill and Max Raymond
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August 9 - 13th, 2023
Brick Aux
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A play that changes with each performance– based on the roll of the dice–In the Castle of Eternal Sunset follows two teenage boys as they play a game of Dungeons & Dragons on an autumn day in 2004. As the teenagers roll to see what happens next, their different possible futures slowly unfold— both in and outside the game. During the play, audience members will be prompted to read aloud fragments of text from their seats, determined randomly by the fall of the dice. The texts contain the hundred different possibilities of how the boys’ lives might unfold. Their fates, then, are never set— until the die rolls, each performance, set them on their path— and the audience speaks their futures into being. ******* In the Castle of Eternal Sunset requires 10 audience participants for each performance. Participants will be asked to read short passages from the comfort of their seat and will never be asked to come onstage. |
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Photos by Jessica Lee
The Interstitial is thrilled to produce this new short play by Charles Green to audiences for the first time.
Charles Green is a poet and playwright. His works include P o l a r i s (a tragedy expansion pack) [National New Play Network/Kennedy Center – MFA Playwrights Workshop], In the Castle of Eternal Sunset (Brick Aux), +r0y (Shakespeare's New Contemporaries - Finalist), Genocide: A Love Story (Theater 503 New Play Contest, London— Semifinalist), The Dybbuk of Dachau (The O’Neill Center’s National Playwrights Conference— Semifinalist), American Zion (Finborough Theatre, London— Finalist), Death in Texas (USC Outstanding Drama Award), The Angel & the Icebox (Manhattan Repertory Theater), Mrs. Marlboro (Pittsburgh New Works Festival— Finalist), and A Desert Fugue (City Garage Theatre). Charles is an MFA graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and is currently pursuing a PhD in Theatre and Performance at Columbia University.
Charles Green is a poet and playwright. His works include P o l a r i s (a tragedy expansion pack) [National New Play Network/Kennedy Center – MFA Playwrights Workshop], In the Castle of Eternal Sunset (Brick Aux), +r0y (Shakespeare's New Contemporaries - Finalist), Genocide: A Love Story (Theater 503 New Play Contest, London— Semifinalist), The Dybbuk of Dachau (The O’Neill Center’s National Playwrights Conference— Semifinalist), American Zion (Finborough Theatre, London— Finalist), Death in Texas (USC Outstanding Drama Award), The Angel & the Icebox (Manhattan Repertory Theater), Mrs. Marlboro (Pittsburgh New Works Festival— Finalist), and A Desert Fugue (City Garage Theatre). Charles is an MFA graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and is currently pursuing a PhD in Theatre and Performance at Columbia University.