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Muse Of Fire has closed its Fringe Festival run! Thanks to those who attended!
hope theatre is busy churning out plans for another run of Muse Of Fire soon, so keep
checking back for updates.
Also, read Martin Denton's review of Muse Of Fire at
nytheatre.com!
Muse Of Fire
"Making Art is a nasty business," proclaims the character Cassandra early on in Muse Of Fire, and in a way, she’s right. Nasty, noble, and nuts. Muse Of Fire is about two novice muses, and their first assignment, which is to make a great novelist out of Emily, a young woman who so far has only written "poems about Mr. Whiskers, her cat, some really bland erotica, and a 51 page ode to her ex-boyfriend titled ‘The Talentless Hack.’" The muses, Dion and Paulina, are complete opposites, a celestial version of Felix and Oscar. Dion is chaos, Paulina is order- and they need each other to find the proper balance needed to get the job done. In the course of their adventure, they get involved in a college production of As You Like It - (or, as one of the characters refers to it: "Can You Stand It"). It's a backstage love story, a farce, and a true adventure. It's about theatre, writing, love, loss, sacrifice, and determination. It's about how insane the whole idea of putting something together and calling it art is, and also how wonderfully heroic and necessary such endeavors are.
Muse Of Fire is a very funny show with a truly gifted cast; created and acted by the same people who put together Last Call for the 2002 Fringe- a play good enough to be included in NYTE's PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2003.
They can expect to see a smart, funny, silly show. They can see a play within a play, an insane theatre director who makes absurd pronouncements (when she was ten she met Grotowski and bandied ideas with him like "a juggler bandies his balls".) They can meet Carlos, The Great Toad of Infinite Waters. They can see nine of the best actors NYC has to offer, whooping it up to the best of their ability.
- Kelly McAllister, playwright
Want to read an excerpt of the play? Click here for a sneak peak of what to expect when you see Muse Of Fire.
