Exciting news! After our successful run Off-Broadway, we're headed to
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025!!
WHO WE BECOME: THREE ONE-ACTS BY LANFORD WILSON!
Starring Margaret Curry and Geoff Stoner
Direction: Mark Cirnigliaro, Consulting Producer Toni Bashinelli, Press Relations: Valerie Potter
Performed in Rep @ the Space at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, UK Aug 1 - 23, 2025
Graphic: Alan Buttar at musedesign.co.uk
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Who We Become Part 1: The Moonshot Tape by Lanford Wilson
Aug 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22 12:50 PM (50 mins)
A one-act play by a Pulitzer Prize winner. In this compelling monologue, Diane, a successful writer, has returned to her hometown to assist her aging mother. As she responds to the questions of an unseen local journalist, her answers weave a poignant tale of self-discovery. Written with typical Wilson poetic storytelling and raw emotion, it explores the flashpoints in life where choices are made and destinies are altered. Performed by Margaret Curry.
Directed by Mark Cirnigliaro.
Consulting Producer Toni Bashinelli.
Who We Become Part 2: Breakfast at the Track / A Poster of the Cosmos by Lanford Wilson
Aug 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23 12:50 PM (50 mins)
Two one-act plays by an acclaimed playwright. In the first, a married couple’s early-morning clash in a hotel room offers a witty look at the complexities of marriage. Performed by Margaret Curry and Geoff Stoner. The second, a monologue, shifts to a Manhattan police station, where a tense interrogation about a mysterious crime evolves into a poignant meditation on love and commitment. Contrasting in tone yet deeply connected, these plays explore human relationships with Wilson’s signature depth and nuance. Performed by Geoff Stoner.
Directed by Mark Cirnigliaro.
Consulting Producer Toni Bashinelli.
What Critics Have Said:
“Deep Flight Productions” launches with a powerful staging of Landford Wilson’s evening of one-act plays, “The Moonshot Tape” and “A Poster of the Cosmos.”
I want to give a special nod to the superb direction of Mark Cirnigliaro, which the two actors, Geoff Stoner, as Tom, (“A Poster of the Cosmos”) a crime suspect who is being interviewed by the police, and Margaret Curry*, as Diane, (“The Moonshot Tape”) a writer with a secret returning to her hometown to be interviewed by a high school reporter, maneuver precisely through the roller coaster of feelings demanded by the stories they each need to tell, with each turn of feeling marked distinctly by a change in demeanor and delivery...The pressure of telling ignites pained emotions in each character. The performances by Stoner and Curry were powerful and heartbreaking. Spectators at this performance were visibly moved by these actors.
The set, designed by Bethanie Wampol Watson, was richly designed with a moving piece that marked the transition between the plays with a dramatic thud...the set did move the players closer to the audience to promote a certain, effective claustrophobia within their inescapable stories. Dramatic lighting by Zack Gage; subtle, thematic costume colors contributed by Noa Smidt; and projection/ sound design by Jeff Watson synthesized a unified approach to the mise-en-scène. Multi-talented Stage Manager Cat Gillespie wrangled the performance to a satisfying, if draining, emotional close.
Margaret Curry, whose credits include stage acting, film directing and acting, and a cabaret show, “The Space In-Between,” has taken on an ambitious mission with Deep Flight, seeking in her productions “to go to the difficult places, to find the life that wants to break through the cracks.” It’s a good time in our history to turn our attention to the struggles of the individual and Curry is committed to going there.
This production was bursting with possibilities, and I look forward to enjoying what’s to come from Deep Flight Productions.
Click to Read Deborah Greenhut's Full Review of Deep Flight Productions “The Moonshot Tape” and “A Poster of the Cosmos”: Two One-Act Plays by Landford Wilson (excerpts above.)
Off-Broadway Run
Graphic: Alan Buttar at musedesign.co.uk * Equity Approved Showcase
"The Moonshot Tape" and "A Poster of the Cosmos" united off Broadway at The Flea February 2024 in a compelling evening of one-act plays by the celebrated American playwright Lanford Wilson. Produced by Deep Flight Productions, directed by Mark Cirnigliaro, starring Margaret Curry* and Geoff Stoner. In these monologues, Wilson intricately explores themes of love, human sexuality, and the profound impact our surroundings and relationships have on shaping our identities. The plays are a poetic and cataclysmic journey, unraveling inward, chaotic, and exhilarating truths that resonate on deeply personal and universally relevant levels.
Lanford Wilson 1980 NYC Photograph: Marty Reichenthal/AP
LANFORD WILSON (Playwright) was a pioneer of the Off-Off-Broadway and regional theatre movements. His plays are known for experimental staging, simultaneous dialogue, and deferred character exposition. He won a 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Talley’s Folly (1979).
Click here for Margaret Curry's Interview with Andrew Cortes at Stage Whisper Podcast.
Click for the BroadwayWorld.com Announcement
Geoff Stoner and Margaret Curry
Opening Night February 2024 Off-Broadway Run at The Flea