Bromley's Latest, The Burnt Woman of Harvard, Sizzles Off Broadway, Oct. 24-Nov. 17 | Playbill

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News Bromley's Latest, The Burnt Woman of Harvard, Sizzles Off Broadway, Oct. 24-Nov. 17 Downtown theatre's pre-eminent verse playwright, Kirk Wood Bromley, will be after nothing less that "the truth in beauty and the beauty in truth" in his newest work, titled The Burnt Woman of Harvard. The Inverse Theatre production will play Oct. 24 through Nov. 17 at The Flamboyan Theater at 107 Suffolk Street (at Delancey). Official opening is Oct. 26. Howard Thorensen directs.

Downtown theatre's pre-eminent verse playwright, Kirk Wood Bromley, will be after nothing less that "the truth in beauty and the beauty in truth" in his newest work, titled The Burnt Woman of Harvard. The Inverse Theatre production will play Oct. 24 through Nov. 17 at The Flamboyan Theater at 107 Suffolk Street (at Delancey). Official opening is Oct. 26. Howard Thorensen directs.

Described as a psycho-sexual thriller, the drama follows a deranged burn victim who stalks a young student through the quads at Harvard University. The relationship takes the two through "a blazing dreamscape of literary orgies, Burning Man raves, and Keatsian struggles," all leading to the above mentioned idealistic pursuit involving truth and beauty.

Bromley's first hit, Want's Unwished Work, too, took the academic world as its setting. Since then he's penned Icarus and Aria, which pitted forbidden love against professional sports; The Death of Griffin Hunter, an espionage thriller set on an international stage; The Death of Don Flagrante Delicto, a gothic Civil War tale; The American Revolution, which viewed the Revolutionary War partly through the relationship between Gen. George Washington and traitor Benedict Arnold; and Midnight Brainwash Revival, which was published in the Martin Denton anthology, Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium.

Many of the usual suspects, culled from Bromley's unofficial stock company, are in the cast. These include Ian W. Hill, Darius Stone, Matt Oberg and, or course, Al Benditt, without whom any Bromley production would be incomplete. Also in the cast are Ariane Barbanell, J.C. Devore, Timothy Fannon, Emily Greenhill, Bob Laine, Meghan Maguire, Blaine Zuckerman, Catherine McNelis, Christina Pastor, Tara Platt, Jessica Chandlee Smith and Johnny Stange.

Tickets are $15. For more information, call (212) 501-4528, or consult www.inversetheater.com. —By Robert Simonson

 
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