a written history in progess of
The Making of Thieves Theatre's Last Stand

"A landscape is such a natural arrangement
for a battlefield or a play that one must write plays." --Gertrude Stein

In New York City's Chinatown, at the Manhattan Bridge Plaza on Canal at Chrystie Street, there stood a tipi constructed of seventy-eight U.S. domestic mailbags and seventeen trees. Erected among the shacks of an American shantytown known as The Hill, the tipi was the temporary home of Gabriele and Nick Manhattan for a total of three years. Gabriele and Nick's study of The Hill spanned a period of four years. It marked the epitome of their work -- a culmination and a turning for Thieves Theatre. The project was entitled The Making of Thieves Theatre's Last Stand