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Presented through site-specific, audience-roaming vignettes spanning 1925 to 1935, the play reconstructs events around Frank Spano's murder and the hurried trial of his confessed killer, leaving audiences to assess who committed the crime and why.
At a 1919 unveiling of Edwin Booth's statue, the play stages the Booth brothers as ghosts and imagines whether John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln because of the Civil War or intense sibling rivalry. Their father Junius Brutus Booth's legacy shaped Edwin's disciplined acting career and John Wilkes's impatience for fame.
This immersive play follows von Buhler's investigation into the 1920 death of Ziegfeld Follies star Olive Thomas, staging several narrative paths through Paris cabaret and hotel settings. Audiences move among rooms representing the Follies, Cabaret du Néant, Ziegfeld's office, and the Ritz; the production combines drama with music, dance, burlesque, and aerial acts.
Presented through site-specific, audience-roaming vignettes spanning 1925 to 1935, the play reconstructs events around Frank Spano's murder and the hurried trial of his confessed killer, leaving audiences to assess who committed the crime and why.
At a 1919 unveiling of Edwin Booth's statue, the play stages the Booth brothers as ghosts and imagines whether John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln because of the Civil War or intense sibling rivalry. Their father Junius Brutus Booth's legacy shaped Edwin's disciplined acting career and John Wilkes's impatience for fame.
This immersive play follows von Buhler's investigation into the 1920 death of Ziegfeld Follies star Olive Thomas, staging several narrative paths through Paris cabaret and hotel settings. Audiences move among rooms representing the Follies, Cabaret du Néant, Ziegfeld's office, and the Ritz; the production combines drama with music, dance, burlesque, and aerial acts.