The Evening-NYCP
THE EVENING
Play by Richard Maxwell
David Zuckerman:
Principle Cast, Actor/Musician
Score Arranger 2015/16 TOURS:
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
The Kitchen, NYC On the Boards, Seattle, WA
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
El Borde di si mismo, Mamba, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Culturegest, Lisbon, Portugal
Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Belgium
Teatro Arena del Sole, Bologna, Italy
Nanterre Amandiers/Festival d’Automne, Nanterre, France
Theater Garonne, Toulouse, France
La Filature, Mulhouse, France
Made In America, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
The actor playing Beatrice describes Richard Maxwell's father’s death. Beatrice is a bartender/prostitute in a bar. Asi is a fighter and Cosmo is his manager. Cosmo wants to celebrate Asi's win, but Asi wants to talk about getting more fights. Beatrice tells Asi she wants to go to Istanbul, but Asi wants her to stay. A band enters and sets up as Asi takes his steroids. Cosmo wants them all to have fun. They dance as the band plays. Asi realizes Cosmo gave Beatrice money for her trip and gets angry. Asi and Cosmo fight. Asi steals Beatrice’s phone. Beatrice pulls a gun on the two men and gets her phone back. Beatrice tells Cosmo she wants to escape. They talk about whether they're losers or not. Cosmo encourages her to go. He tries for her gun, and fails. Beatrice orders the men to say what they are. She shoots Asi. He doesn't die. She shoots Cosmo and he doesn't die either. Beatrice removes their squib packs. She takes out her suitcase and steps out of the bar and it comes apart. The bar and band are struck. Asi and Cosmo exit. The stage fills with fog and turns white. The actor playing Beatrice puts on snow camouflage, then describes a journey through a vast landscape.