RAT Fwd: KING WITHOUT A CASTLE

[brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>]

>Alert for NYC RATz



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>From: MJGarces@aol.com
>Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:17:31 EST
>Subject: KING WITHOUT A CASTLE
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>Hello - The playwright for the play I'm directing sent this to me and out
>into the internet universe, and so am I...please come see it if you can!
>Michael
>
>
>SPREAD THE WORD
>
>  Hi, dear cyber friends. I don't know if I've gotten a hang on this e-mail
>thing, but I'm going to try something revolutionary, maybe evolutionary, who
>knows? By they way, it's Candido Tirado, the person married to Carmen Rivera.
>You might know one of us if not, I hope we'd meet soon, at least in the
>internet zone.
>
>   Anyway, the reason I'm writing you is that my play KING WITHOUT A CASTLE is
> opening  on Friday March 10th at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
>(P.R.T.T)    308 w. 47ty Street.  RESERVATION 212- 354-1293. KING runs
>through April 23rd. The Wednesday through Friday performances will start at
>8pm and they will be in English. On Saturdays and Sundays the performances
>will be in Spanish with two shows on each day. 2pm and 8 pm on Saturday 2pm
>and 6:30pm on Sundays. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot, the play contains adult
>situations and there's some nudity. Just a warning, that's all!
>
>   Now that I got the details out of the way, I'd like to share with you my
>revolutionary idea. Put on your berets! I receive a lot of e-mail or should I
>say Carmen receives a lot of e-mail  which conforms to 3 main categories;
>jokes, political announcements and sad news of one form or another. My  idea
>is to also use the e-mail to promote cultural events, theater specifically. I
>know you're saying we do that already. But I like to take it a step further.
>
>   I would like you to send this e-mail to all the people in your address
>book and those of you who receive this forwarded e-mail, I'd like you to
>forward it also. Although there's no way of knowing how many people it will
>reach, I'd like the e-mail to reach at least 500,000 people!! I know I don't
>have to convince you of the power of the internet.
>
>   Of course the purpose of this is to have  as many people possible come see
>KING WITHOUT A CASTLE. Well, you might say, I don't want to forward this
>message because I don't know the play. Valid point, but before I give you a
>brief summary of the KING, which has been workshopped at the prestigious SUNDA
>NCE FESTIVAL; which has garnered me a New York Foundation for the Arts
>Fellowship, and was a finalist at the HUMANA FESTIVAL, I'd like to tell you
>that if you present this e-mail at the box office you'll be getting a $5
>DOLLAR DISCOUNT! Tickets are $20, but you'll be paying $15. Not bad for
>showing an e-mail.
>
>   KING is a play about the fantasies of three people; Danny, who wants to be
>a chess champion; Soledad, who dreams of a family life not unlike the ones in
>tv commercials and that of Isabel, Danny's mother, who's waiting for her
>husband to return from war for 25 years. These fantasies, collide, crash and
>burn ,sometimes in funny ways, sometimes in painful ways. There's also a
>shadow that wants to take over one of the character's life so it could live
>again.
>
>   Under the direction of Michael John Garces the actors; Anilu Pardo,
>Francisco Lorite and Selenis Leyva give great performances. Usually writers
>aren't this happy with their productions, but I am and I don't care who knows
>it. For those of you who don't know my work, I'd like to tell them that I
>been a playwright (a profession you wouldn't want your child to go into) for
>twenty years. My plays First Class and Some People Have all the Luck have
>been published. I've had over thirty productions. My play the Barber Shop was
>done at Repertorio Espanol and Ilka the Dream was done at Intar last year.
>First Class and Checking Out have also had productions at the PP.R.T.T. I was
>also a staff writer for the tv show GHOSTWRITER. There's more, but why bore
>you.
>
>   Please forward this e-mail. But most of all come and check out this
>production. It last 6 short weeks.
>
>   If you need more incentive, theaters in Venezuela, Columbia, Chile,
>Argentina, Cuba and Mexico have expressed interest in the play already. But
>right now we're in New York. So I'll see you there.
>
>For any questions or comments please contact me at ctasterisk@aol.com
>
>I appreciate this with all my heart.
>
>Peace
>
>Candido Tirado