Husbands

In May 2009 the theatre play "Husbands" had its world premier at Visual Arts theatre in NYC. I was contacted a few months prior by the director and creatively conceiving soul of Doris Mirescu. The play is a wild and intense version of the already wild 1970 film by John Cassavetes by the same name. While the play zooms in on and explores the reactions and lack of comprehension over a friend's death, I was given very free and inspiring directives from mrs. Mirescu. I soon understood that what I wanted to deal with was expressing these powerful emotions and facing death, and its sibling life, right in the face. I watched the movie and got insights from the director as to what's going on and is expressed/isn't.
The musical setting for our play is one of a solo guitar performance, I'm on stage the entire time playing on and off. The "psychological" role of the music the way I see it is to emphasize, capture, state, and/or surprise. I came up with a theme that can be manipulated in many ways, a theme and variations kind of thing, to have a red thread to weave with for some of the scenes. This choice was mine, and not required, but I found it helpful to come up with an emotional "character" for the play and to have a recurring, gradually unfolding story take place, hitting (perhaps) various human pockets of vibration.
With such great freedom and the nakedness of the one man band concept I greatly look forward to performing this piece again at the Public Theatre in New York as part of the Under The Radar festival, january 6-17 2010.