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MAGIC TIME! @ JUDSON CHURCH and THOM FOGARTY PRESENT

TEN TALL TALES ABOUT THE MEN I LOVE

Based on a short story of RONN SMITH

Adapted by THOM FOGARTY

Directed + Designed by THOM FOGARTY



February 24th and 25th, 2012 for 2 Performances

Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC

Presented by Magic Time! @ Judson Memorial Church and Thom Fogarty

Friday and Saturday at 7PM

FREE / No Reservations Required.

Runs 60 minutes

Donations will be collected for The Ali Forney Center

http://www.aliforneycenter.org/

http://vimeo.com/35587063

This ‘walkabout’ production, based on Ronn Smith’s short story collection and Thom Fogarty’s reimagining for the stage, is a series of 10 overlapping scenes for 10 characters in the time of AIDS dealing with love, loss and life.

The cast of ten includes: Armand Anthony, Micah Bucey, Quincy Ellis, Ken Kidd, Christopher Michael McLamb*, Aidan O’Shea, Adam Patterson, Carlton Tanis*, and Dustye Winniford*.

*Indicates member of Actor’s Equity Association (AEA).

Lighting design by Bill Stabile.

Costume and Stage design is by Thom Fogarty

RONN SMITH is the author of Ten Tall Tales About the Men I Love: Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Three or Four Poems; Nothing But the Truth: A Play (based on the YA novel of the same title by Avi); Unquote Comma or REQ: A Play; American Set Design: Interviews with Twelve Contemporary Set Designers; and many articles about theatre, film, and television design. While living in New York, he performed in numerous theatre productions by Stuart Sherman, Cindy Lubar, and Mel Andringa (The Drawing Legion). Ronn now lives in Boston, where he is an independent fundraising/development consultant, working with cultural, humanitarian, and educational nonprofits that are committed to creating positive social change.



Director THOM FOGARTY brings his particular sensibility to this thought provoking piece. His work, based in movement and told in an inherently theatrical style, has always dealt with the vastness of human conditions as told through the observance of small everyday gestures and their meanings. This shorthand movement vocabulary (consisting of traditional miming and gestures that are easily identifiable) allows the actors to be both profane and profound at the same time, constantly creating a duality, that can allow one viewing to laugh while another is moved to tears.