Galveston

Galveston

Written by: Michael Swift 

Marigny Theatre    11/13/2008 - 11/16/2008 (schedule)

Category:  Drama

Galveston takes place on the down-on-her-luck island, once proclaimed as “the Wall Street of the South” before the great hurricane of 1900. Maurice Troxclaire, the 73-year-old self-proclaimed “best lover on the island”, receives a strange request from his lover, a much younger, married Charlotte Moody. She wants him to drown her and resuscitate her. She has lost her spirit and believes this will revive her if he succeeds, or put an end to the malaise if not. When Maurice can’t bring himself to do it, he sees this as a failure to please his lover, indicative of his years catching ...Read More

Total performances: 3

Cast
.... Maurice Troxclaire
.... Dewberry
.... Charlotte Moody
.... Mayor M. Everett Moody
*=featured role

Staff
Jeffrey Glaser ....  Director

Notes: Playwright - MICHAEL SWIFT graduated from Fordham University in New York City and completed his Masters in Scriptwriting from University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. Michael served as writer and director for productions of Juvenilia with the Minotaur Company in England, François’ Love at 22 Catherine and then the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the sonic theatre piece Chuck Ballard at The 5 Spot in Brooklyn, Jorge and Martha Ride the Subway and Boomerang both at 13th Street Repertory Company, September 12th at the Nuyorican Poets Café. Most recently he directed his play Rumbles Centre Stage Theatre Company in Houston, TX. This year he worked with three-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Edward Albee as he directed his plays The American Dream and The Sandbox. Michael also teaches acting at The Village Retirement Home and playwriting to disabled war veterans with the National Theatre Workshop for the Handicapped, and serves as Literary Associate of the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, NYC. In the summer 2009, Centre Stage Theatre in Houston will produce his play Dirt and Whiskey.

Director – Jeffrey Glaser was born and raised in Metairie. He graduated from Fordham University Lincoln Center, where he met Mr. Swift, and began collaborating on Galveston in 2004. Mr. Glaser last worked in New Orleans as the Production Stage Manager and Assistant Director on Paul Chan and The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s production of Waiting for Godot. His favorite New York directing credits include Forgiveness at La Mama (by Bradley Glaser), FUCT at the Cherry Lane and Caroline’s Comedy Club, Moral Values a Grand Farce: or Me No Likey the Homo Touch-touch at the Village Theater as part of NYC Fringe (by Ian McWethy) and Mr. Swift’s Texas Lawmen at 37 Arts. Mr. Glaser is thrilled to be a part of NOLA’s first annual Fringe Festival.
References: Media; MPC
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