Past Shows
Gone
Gone by Charles L. Mee,
February 9 - March 2, 2008
SF Playhouse, Stage II
"...rich and compelling and beautifully performed..."
--Chad
Jones of the Oakland Tribune
"...a startlingly moving 80-minute mashup of movement and
music and text..."
--Karen
D'Souza of the San Jose Mercury News
Watch a video about Gone in production>>
A
lover pleas. An invalid anquishes. A blogger blogs. What does
it all mean? A collage of the human experience, Charles Mee's GONE bears
witness to fragments of people at their most tender, their most frightened,
and their most poignant as they struggle to thrive against
the clock, and time is gone.
Charles L. Mee, Playwright
Shoresh
Alaudini (top),
Kalli Jonsson (bottom),
Mollena Williams (left),
Marilee Talkington* (right) in Gone
Marilee Talkington in Gone
Photo by Joey Kotfica
Mollena Williams in Gone
Photo by Melpomene Katakalos
Mankind is under a magnifying glass in Gone. Charles L. Mee, who the New York Times' Jonathan Kalb says "has pulled off impressive feats of literary juggling" weaves a collage of text from the lost writings of Sophocles, excerpts from Proust, The NY Times Obituaries, and his own plays. Mr. Mee describes his plays as "broken, jagged, filled with sharp edges, filled with things that take sudden turns, careen into each other, smash up, veer off in sickening turns" also saying that he likes to put them "—with some sense of struggle remaining—into a classical form, a Greek form, or a beautiful dance theatre piece, or some other effort at civilization."
Gone thoughtfully exposes the most charged and the most mundane of the human experience in a poetic, visceral collage for the stage. Be it a recounted nightmare, a lover's plea, or a blogger's simple account of her day, the longings of life are achingly explored. As time slips by, characters grapple to communicate their deepest thoughts, love to the fullest, struggle to recreate a memory, and live life with signifigance before time is gone.
Director: Marissa Wolf
Featuring: Shoresh Alaudini, Kalli Jonsson, Marilee Talkington*,
Mollena Williams
Scenic Design: Rod Hipskind
Costume Design: Wendy Lyn
Lighting Design: Jarrod Fischer
Sound Design: Cliff Caruthers
Stage Manager: Alycia Dymond
*Member Actors' Equity Association. Gone was
an Equity-
Download some of the great music from Gone from our iTunes mix.