Dramatic Comedy
CharacterS: 2 male, 3 female
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In the first years of the twentieth century, Evelyn Nesbit, the
beautiful, teen-age pin up and chorus girl, was the entrancing
center of an explosive and deadly love triangle involving Stanford
White, her married lover and the architect of many of the most
famous buildings in New York, who liked to push her naked on a red
velvet swing, and Harry K. Thaw, the wealthy, manic and demented
roller-skating Pittsburgh playboy who married her, beat her with a
horse whip, and eventually shot White through the eye socket during
a musical performance at the rooftop theatre at White's Madison
Square Garden. This wickedly funny play chronicles the grotesque
events leading up to and after this notorious murder and Evelyn's
wild, strange journey through her American tabloid nightmare as she
is hounded by carnivorous reporters, threatened, used, betrayed,
bribed, stalked and nearly destroyed by the rich, the corrupt, the
violent and the insane. Part of Nigro's ongoing dramatic saga of
America in the 20th century that continues with Jules Verne Eats a
Rhinoceros, City of Dreadful Night and Traitors, Originally
produced at the Open Stage Theatre in Pittsburgh and Off Broadway
by the Hypothetical Theatre Company.
"Literate but quirky ... non-realistic theatricality ... smartly
ironic ..." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
"There was a bit of everything: wealth, fame, insanity, genius,
and, in the middle of it all, a beautiful chorus girl ... The
sensational story has been adapted for screen and stage ... but the
latest play, Don Nigro's "My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon,"
might be its most faithful version. It demonstrates admirable
nuance and an impressive amount of research ..." NY Times.
"People who think Evelyn Nesbit is only a fictional character
from Ragtime may find some surprises in Don Nigro's play, which
chronicles the tawdry, twisted love triangle that "the girl in the
red velvet swing" shared with master architect (and seducer)
Stanford White and millionaire psychopath Harry K. Thaw." Village
Voice.
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