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Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 4m
Itamar Moses
For a time in the late 1990s, Colorado Supermax, one of the most secure prisons in America, housed: Latin Kings leader Luis Felipe, World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Here, one idealistic lawyer is brought into conflict with them all.
For a time in the late 1990s, Colorado Supermax, one of the most secure prisons in America, housed in neighboring cells: Latin Kings leader Luis Felipe, World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. In this play, Itamar Moses imagines a young lawyer who defends the civil liberties of criminals locked up on the infamous Celebrity Row and asks what happens when her idealism stands face to face with criminal geniuses who have plans of their own.
Celebrity Row premiered at the American Theatre Company in Chicago, IL, on 16 October 2008.
MAZE CARROL – Forty, white, southernLUIS – Thirties, CubanTIMOTHY – Thirties, whiteRAMZI – Thirties, SaudiTED – Fifties, white
Doubling:The actor playing TIMOTHY MCVEIGH also plays EARL, ANGEL, DAVID and PETER.The actor playing RAMZI YOUSEF also plays NORMAN and MOM.The actor playing TED KACZYNSKI also plays FENDELL, DJINN, EVAN and DAD.The actor playing MAZE CARROLL also plays JENNIFER.The actor playing LUIS FELIPE also plays HELLER and SCUBAMAN.
ADX-Florence Federal Prison, Colorado. 1990s.
“Intellectually engaging!” – New City Stage
“One of the most dazzling cliffhangers in modern drama.” – Theatre in Chicago
“Intellectually engaging... Moses understands the ways in which raging ideologies and unexpected comedy can exist side by side.” – New City Stage
Itamar Moses is the author of the full-length plays Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us, Yellowjackets, Back Back Back, Completeness and The Whistleblower, the musicals Nobody Loves You (with Gaby Alter), Fortress of Solitude (with Michael Friedman) and Th ...
by Kathryn Grant
Kathryn Grant
by Itamar Moses