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The Guys
the Continental European Premiere in English
written by Anne Nelson
directed by Martin Buxbaum
with Cristina Gavin (Joan), Gregory Fuller (Nick)
Assistant Directors: Kati Zöttl, Georg Drennig
Stage Manager: Xenia Bayer
Lighting Design: Wolfram Zöttl
Sound & Lighting: Gordana Crnko / Drachengasse
Costumes: Sarah Hayes
Set Design: vtp
Props: Xenia Bayer & vtp
Facts
September 8, 2003 - Premiere
September 8-20, 2003
Tue – Sat, 8 p.m.
Theater Drachengasse
Fleischmarkt 22, 1010 Vienna
About the play
"Paralyzed by grief and unable to put his thoughts into words, Nick, a fire captain, seeks out the help of a writer to compose eulogies for the colleagues and friends he lost in the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001. As Joan, an editor by trade, draws Nick out about "the guys," powerful profiles emerge, revealing vivid personalities and the substance and meaning that lie beneath the surface of seemingly unremarkable people. As the individual talents and enthusiasms of the people within the small firehouse community are realized, we come to understand the uniqueness and value of what each person has to contribute. And Nick and Joan, two people who under normal circumstances never would have met, jump the well-defined tracks of their own lives, and so learn about themselves, about life, and about the healing power of human connection, through talking about the guys."
(caption from the book published by Random House Trade Paperbacks)
About the author
Anne Nelson was born at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Stillwater, Oklahoma. She graduated from Yale University, where she was active in music and theatre, and was a soloist in the Yale production of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass (including its European premiere in the Vienna Konzerthaus in 1973). Following university, she went into the fields of journalism and human rights research. From 1995 to 2003 she served as the director of the International Program at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York, where she also taught international reporting. Her articles and photographs on the wars in Central America appeared in numerous publications in the United States and Canada. She continues to write and broadcast on international affairs, and lives in New York City with her husband, author George Black, and their two children, David and Julia.
Teachers
Teacher Material for all vienna theatre project productions is available in PDF format to download from this website. Please visit our Education section to find the required documents which are available free of charge.The material available includes background information about the author, the play, main themes, characters, reading suggestions, possible teaching objectives, dialogues for discussion, assignments and vocabulary (English-German).
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