The Blackest Shoreby Mark Schultz
World Premiere
Performances
Feb 13, 2015 -
Mar 7, 2015
Cast & Personnel
Director
Assistant Director
Cast
- Elizabeth Marshall Black
- Candice D’Meza
- John Gremillion
- Zachary Leonard
- Josh Morrison
- Gabriel Regojo
Scenic Design
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Video Design
Sound Design
Prop Design
Stage Manager
Booth Crew
The Play
Catastrophic is pleased to once again introduce Houston audiences to a fresh voice in American theatre. As it did with Mickle Maher (The Strangerer and Spirits to Enforce) and Miki Johnson (American Falls and Fleaven), Catastrophic will produce 2 plays by Mark Schultz in a single season, beginning with the world premiere of The Blackest Shore.
Stuart, 16, is making a movie: graphic violence, extreme sex, the walking dead. Of course it’s also a love story. And it’s all true. In fact it’s more horribly true than anyone, even Stuart, can rightly comprehend.
When Stuart begins to display increasingly troubling behavior, our sympathies are torn between a son and a father – both crippled by self-loathing– and each of the lives they touch, as they try to negotiate the impossible circumstances of a mysterious, horrific episode from Stuart’s youth.
Mark Schultz is the real deal and we’re so excited to share his intrepid, devastating, eminently funny work with you.
The Playwright
MARK SCHULTZ is a member of New Dramatists and Rising Phoenix Rep and is coordinator of MCC Theater’s Playwrights’ Coalition. His plays include The Gingerbread House (the stageFARM); Deathbed (Apparition Productions); Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy (Soho Rep/True Love Productions) for which he won the 2005 Oppenheimer Award and the 2006 Kesselring Prize; Polar Bear (commissioned and produced by Birmingham Rep, UK); Ceremony (Rising Phoenix Rep); Gift (Rising Phoenix Rep/NY Fringe Festival); and various One Acts. Everything Will Be Different was produced by the Actors Touring Company with Theatre Royal Plymouth under the title A Brief History of Helen of Troy at the Soho Theatre in London after a UK tour. Other plays include, The Blackest Shore; Magic Kingdom; Brightness. He has received a Sloan Commission from MTC, as well as commissions from Playwrights Horizons and The Exchange. He was selected for a 2006 Royal Court Residency. He holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.
In the Media
Chronicle critics offer entertainment suggestions
February 11, 2015 |
Houston Chronicle
| Everett Evans
Catastrophic Theatre’s The Blackest Shore: Finding a Voice
February 10, 2015 |
Houston Press
| Margaret Downing
