Down: A Fable
A Play in Three Acts
by Kevin Anthony Kautzman
3F / 3M * 113pg
© 2009
Synopsis
It is the eve of Sue’s twenty-third birthday, and the strange and terrible menagerie in her night terrors won’t stay where they belong! An upside down Christmas tree, a mysterious man with giant horns, and a pair of talking monkeys rend the veil between dream and waking and come to lead her to a place called Down, deep beneath the world tree Yggadrasil where the Horned Man lords over vision, memory, and a very dark secret.
A dissection of a dysfunctional family and a phantasmagorical parable in dreamscape, DOWN: A FABLE is the play from Kevin Anthony Kautzman about an insomniac named Sue in search of just one perfectly meaningless poem, her agoraphobic brother Jim, their weirdly out of touch mother, and the kinds of secrets and memories that just scream to be remembered.
Development & History
> DOWN: A FABLE was written in the fall of 2009 with support from a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis.
> Red Eye Theater’s 2010 Works-In-Progress series.
AV
[1] Sm. Promo Image
[2] Lg. Promo Image
[3] Sm. “The Animals” Collage
[4] Md. “The Animals” Collage
[5] Lg. “The Animals” Collage
Red Eye Works-in-Progress 2010
[6] Rehearsal Photos
[7] Performance Photos
[8] Performance Video
- Still photography from WIP 2010 by Dwayne Williams, video from Ben McGinley, feat. Joanna Harmon, Julie Kurtz & Stephen Pearce
