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MICHAEL FIXEL (1953 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Attended Columbia College at Columbia University where he studied with Kenneth Koch and Michael Lessac and where his plays were produced at the Minor Latham Playhouse. Spent two years in India and Nepal in the 1970's. Lived in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied extensively with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and other Beats. Also known as a scenic designer, he is active in the educational theater community in northern Florida.
Plays by Michael Fixel
Salamander Stew | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hudson Guild | 06 Feb 2011 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Parallel University Press, October 10, 2011 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9847070-0-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130997 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 0m verse play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 to 8 (flexible) | Female | 4 to 8 (flexible | ||
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Notes: | For multi-talented, ambitious directors looking for an ensemble piece. Few stage directions except those imbedded in the text make every realization of this play unique, but all call for tight, energetic choreography and polyphonic chanting and conscious exploitation of the occult rhythms of the text. | |||||
Synopsis: | Steven wanders on an autumn day through a deceptively beautiful forest. When he finds himself trapped by his externalized demons, we hear about his passionate affair with Susan; "Touch me and be forever changed. Touch me and burst into flames. Touch me and turn into mist. You're the only one I've ever kissed." Then we learn of her betrayal of him. "I love you, but there is no 'us." It's been intense. Just not time yet to be impaled upon a picket fence." Steven is forced to confront the forces he has unleashed as the rhythm and the action accelerate to a horrifying and yet ultimately hopeful conclusion. | |||||
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