Ugmo and Eenie Go Down the Ruski Hole Ken Prestininzi
About This Show
It’s 3 a.m in a basement apartment and all is not well with Ugmo, a solo performer who hates the world but loves Dostoevsky. His upstairs neighbor Eenie – a drag queen wannabe who reports for military duty in Iraq the next morning – is not having a great day, either. Eenie confronts Ugmo’s cries of the heart, causing “the solo show to end all solo shows” to explode. The standoff between strangers becomes an unexpected, tragicomic riff on hook-ups, love, and holes. Both men refuse to be discarded or judged as they hope for the encounter to give new meaning to their marginalized lives.
About the Artists
Alston Brown, Leicester Landon and Kenneth Prestininzi met at Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep when Prestininzi was its Artistic Director; they have been collaborating ever since. They first workshopped UGMO/EENIE with Sleeping Weazel (Charlotte Meehan, artistic director) in Boston.
Prestininzi is a New Dramatist resident playwright and former Associate Chair of Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. Brown and Landon performed together in Waiting for Godot while at Brown/Trinity and recently have been acting in new plays in New York City, Providence and Boston.
Thursday, Oct. 1 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
Students / Seniors
$10
80 minutes
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Credits
Written and directed by
Ken Prestininzi
Featuring
Alston Brown and Leicester Landon
Originally developed by
Sleeping Weazel
Photo Credit
David Marshall