by Stephen Belber
Revival produced by Yaller Skunk Theatre Company
Directed by Julia Stubbs
Vince can’t let go of the past. And now he wants to record it.
He hasn’t seen his ex-girlfriend and best friend for ten years since graduation. He deals drugs but thinks only of that night years ago.
Tonight he’s going to find the truth and make them all face it.
Cast
Tara Carrozza | Mark Curtis | Kevin Watt.
Creative Team
Director: Julia Stubbs | Set & Costume Designer: Gabriela Restelli | Lighting Designer: Richard Williamson | Sound Designer: Damian Reynolds | Photographer: Gabriela Restelli | Produced by Yaller Skunk Theatre Company.
Performance dates
6-24 April 2010 at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London.
The programme for Tape can be viewed here
“The cosy Red Lion Theatre is the perfect backdrop for Julia Stubbs’ highly polished production of Tape, which invites the audience to an intimate examination of its three characters… Gabriela Restelli’s set is simple and effective… Kevin Watt (Vin) and Mark Curtis (Jon) create a tangibly tense atmosphere into which steps Tara Carrozza’s Amy in an impressive combination of charisma and vulnerability who is the emotional heart of this production.” Remotegoat
“Stephen Belber’s tense play about fraying friendships…Yaller Skunk founders Mark Curtis (Jon) and Kevin Watt (Vince) play the warring friends with bubbling machismo and Julia Stubbs’ direction sees the tit for tat banter skipping along.” Islington Gazette
“The production crams Tape’s big themes – can people change? does true forgiveness exist, and if people can change sufficiently, do we need it to? – into the intimate space that is the Old Red Lion, with explosive results.” British Theatre Guide
Stephen Belber is an American playwright, screenwriter and film director.
Belber was born in Washington, D.C.. He studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and moved to New York at the age of 25. There he unwittingly moved in with a roommate with AIDS and helped nurse him for two years until he died. He held a variety of jobs including waiter, substitute teacher, and wire service operator for the United Nations.
His first show in New York was a solo show entitled Psychotic Busboy Blues. He went on to attend Playwrights Horizons theatre school where he worked on his third solo show One Million Butterflies. In 1994 he was accepted to the playwriting program at The Juilliard School where he produced his first multipart play Stone Cold Lyricism.
In 2000 he was the winner of the Fringe NYC Overall Excellence Award in playwriting for Drifting Elegant. Also in 2000, the Actors Theatre of Louisville produced Belber’s Tape at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. He then wrote the screenplay for the 2001 film adaptation of the play Tape, directed by Richard Linklater. Belber’s next major project in 2001 came from working with the Tectonic Theatre Project. There he researched, was an associate writer, and acted in The Laramie Project, a play and later a film written in response to Matthew Shepard’s fatal beating in Laramie, Wyoming.
Between 2002 and 2003, Belber wrote for the US TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Belber’s Broadway debut came in 2004 with his play Match. His other plays include The Transparency of Val, The Wake, Through Fred, The Death of Frank, Mel and Gene, A small melodramatic story, McReele, and Stabbing.
His films include Drifting Elegant and Management.
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