Horse Trade Theatre Group in association with Hard Sparks presents
Eightythree Down is now published by Indie Theatre Now! Check it out here.
It’s New Year’s Eve 1983 and Martin’s plan for a quiet night in his parents’ basement is thrown into chaos when his old friend Dina and her hooligan roommates arrive with a gun, a bag of stolen books, and a dangerous idea.
Having teamed with Tony, a sociopath who sees himself as a craftsman, and Stuart, a bisexual English hedonist, Dina’s life is well out of control. On the run from a Manhattan thug, the reeling trio incurs upon bird-watching Martin’s quiet suburban nest and turns it quite upside down.
Set in a suburb of nineteen-eighties New York with all its pop culture and burgeoning technology, Eightythree Down is a comic drama about the futility of isolation, the consequences of indulgence, and our desperate need for something genuine in an increasingly artificial environment.
Having teamed with Tony, a sociopath who sees himself as a craftsman, and Stuart, a bisexual English hedonist, Dina’s life is well out of control. On the run from a Manhattan thug, the reeling trio incurs upon bird-watching Martin’s quiet suburban nest and turns it quite upside down.
Set in a suburb of nineteen-eighties New York with all its pop culture and burgeoning technology, Eightythree Down is a comic drama about the futility of isolation, the consequences of indulgence, and our desperate need for something genuine in an increasingly artificial environment.
Opens September 1st at Under St. Marks!
featuring
Melody Bates as Dina, Bryan Kaplan as Tony, and Brian Miskell as Martin,
Sound by Janie Bullard, scenery by Eugenia Furneaux-Arends, Lighting by Brad Peterson, Costumes by Tristan Raines
Stage Management by Amanda Michaels Assistant Stage Manager Alex Marks
Assistant Director Evan Caccioppoli
Melody Bates as Dina, Bryan Kaplan as Tony, and Brian Miskell as Martin,
Sound by Janie Bullard, scenery by Eugenia Furneaux-Arends, Lighting by Brad Peterson, Costumes by Tristan Raines
Stage Management by Amanda Michaels Assistant Stage Manager Alex Marks
Assistant Director Evan Caccioppoli
Eightythree Down was developed at the 2009 Southampton Writers Conference under the guidance of Pulitzer Prize nominee Craig Lucas. The script earned the 2009 Georgia Theatre Conference Award.
