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DANIEL MCKLEINFELD |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Plays by Daniel McKleinfeld |
Little Piece of the Sun, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Gemini CollisionWorks | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101936 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Daniel McKleinfeld takes the contemporary stories of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster and, using a collage of dozens and dozens of source texts, has created a theatrical documentary study of a broken society in which, merely to survive, one had to be a hustler, a liar, and a cheat, no matter how moral one may have been. A society in which a serial killer is allowed to roam free because it can't be admitted that a serial killer could possibly exist in the USSR, and where the management of nuclear power plants is chosen based on Party affiliation and loyalty rather than on skill and knowledge. A dreamlike, symphonic collision of texts, interviews, poetry, science, and history, A Little Piece of the Sun is a theatrical autopsy in which Art is the only scalpel sharp enough to cut through the mangled and burnt surface of lies and deception to reveal the glowing fragment of truth underneath it all. And, of course, it may be noted in passing that while this is a documentary about another country in another time, certain lessons as to the effects of governments that cover up their institutional failings with lies and corruption (leading to both direct and inadvertent murder) are universal and timeless | |||||
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