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What some folks are writing:

From Jordan Swisher at Theater is Easy:

"BOTTOM LINE: Hannah Sloat and Hardy Pinnell drive a tightly directed revival of Rebecca Gilman’s powerful play."

"The Glory of Living is full of extremely tense moments that also manage to be strangely comedic, despite their content."

“[Sloat] plays Lisa with incredible subtlety and intrigue."

"a standout performance in the second act by Stephen James Anthony"

"it’s like being at some kind of punk rock concert"

"Every piece of this production fits perfectly together into the dark, uneasy puzzle that is Lisa’s life. Gilman’s play asks some tough questions, and this production doesn’t shy away from any of them, leaving the audience with much to think about, including the show’ s haunting final moment. The Glory of Living is dark, funny, and bold. It is a show packed with heavy material, delivered by strong actors, and led by a director with a consistent vision.”

From Glenda Frank at The New York Theatre Wire:

“one of the best off off-Broadway groups I’ve seen in a long time."

"a dark play about the bottom-feeders of our society and Revolve Productions in their premiere season in the tiny Access Theatre space created a memorable evening”

“Attention to detail and the script go a long way.”

From Edward Karam at off off online:

“Rebecca Gilman’s 1999 play, The Glory of Living, ambitiously revived in a shoestring production by Revolve Productions at The Access Theater, feels very timely indeed. With the horrific revelations of the torture and rape of three young women in Cleveland still fresh in the news, Gilman’s examination of two lethal losers resonates powerfully."

“…set designer Alexandra Regazzoni provides stunning visual counterpoint…Tuce Yasak’s lighting complements the concept … The inspiration carries over to Regazzoni’s apropos costumes”

“Investing the production with unsettling silences and claustrophobia, director Ashley Kelly Tata maintains…uncertainty to the end."

"this ambitious production affirms Revolve as a troupe that’s willing to tackle serious topics without regard to the temperament of the season.”

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!

Our recommendation: see the show first, then read full reviews

http://www.theasy.com/Reviews/2013/G/thegloryofliving.php

http://nytheatre-wire.com/gf13081t.htm

http://offoffonline.com/?p=10104

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'The Glory of Living': Access Theater Offers A Sharp Portrait of Society's Cast-Offs

A couple quotes from blogger Howard "Prof" Miller:

"The Glory of Living is a gutsy play for any company to tackle. The production by [Revolve Productions at] Access Theater is a powerful one, well directed by Ashley Kelly Tata, and well acted by the entire cast. Key to its success are the solid and disturbing performances of Hardy Pinnell as Clint, and, especially, Hannah Sloat as Lisa, a character who defies armchair analysis and who casually deflects sympathy.

But, really, this is a labor of dedicated and sober intent for all involved. Access Theater, like many other small, off-the-beaten-path Off-Off-Broadway companies, serves a valuable function of making sure that significant theatrical voices are heard. You are not likely to see The Glory of Living at any Broadway or major Off Broadway house (despite its pedigree as a Pulitzer Prize finalist), so you owe it to yourself to make the effort to head downtown and climb those many stairs to the fourth floor of 380 Broadway to see this finely tuned production."

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT IF ENTIRE POST IS READ

We highly recommend seeing the show first, then reading about it later.

http://upstage-downstage.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-glory-of-living-access-theater.html

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The Glory Of Living Would Like Your Vote

We're thrilled to be one of the amazing shows included in the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. What this also means is we need your vote!

See the show: http://www.nyitawards.com/oobshows/show.asp?showID=2708

Vote for the show: http://www.nyitawards.com/vote/

#thegloryoflving theatre awards winning

Some southern comfort food at the end of a southern week. At Dinosaur BBQ.

A Note on the Need of This Production

“It’s just a thing that happens to a type.” A mantra we repeat to ourselves

to get through the day.

The panhandler on the sidewalk, the homeless sleeping in a church

doorway, the overwhelmed mother and her exhausted, hungry, whining

children on the morning commute – all types that made choices of their

own free will. We repeat the mantra when we refuse a beggar change, or

stare at the floor, or walk right on by.

Things happen to a type. In Cleveland, where poverty is soaring and the

landscape is shuttered, condemned and abandoned, a certain type

kidnapped three members of another certain type and held them in brutal

captivity for ten years. Ten years.

We close our eyes, block our ears, and hum an incoherent melody to deny

existence. The type is the poor, the abused, the handicapped, the

addicted, the hard-working, the exhausted, the sick, the criminal. They are

the type who pervert the American Dream into a nightmare reality. No

matter how many hours worked, how many jobs held down, the mortgage

cannot be paid, the car cannot be bought, the Dream cannot be achieved.

If the Dream won’t be realized using the methods that have been

guaranteed to work, one finds other methods of achievement. One seeks

alternative Dreams to have, comforts to hold, loves to need. That’s

ingenuity.

If we are of a type that haven’t yet lost our footing, we are standing on the

precipice. We watch a type plummet into the abyss.

“And it’ll just keep happening, forever.”

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Photo: Hunter Canning

It's Complicated.

See what happens next...

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A lil' bit of inspiration whilst on the build.

Build Build Build

Set.

#thegloryofliving #flourescents #chain link #pull-out couch #under con

Hannah Sloat shares her thoughts on performing in a scene that caught her eye in theatre school. Take a look how one scene inspired her to produce an entire play.

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Hiding in plain sight for five seasons, Walter White, the protagonist of “Breaking Bad,” is television’s ultimate dark entrepreneur.

The killings of three women near Cleveland exposed how a city that is proud of its downtown business revival and world-class cultural and medical institutions continues to harbor pockets of despair.

Quotes from Joan Didion's 1979 review of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song" -- another text being referenced for research

"The very subject of 'The Executioner's Song' is that vast emptiness at the center of the Western experience, a nihilism antithetical not only to literature but to most other forms of human endeavor, a dread so close to zero that human voices fadeout, trail off, like skywriting. Beneath what Mailer calls 'the immense blue of the strong sky of the American West,' under that immense blue which dominates 'The Executioner's Song,' not too much makes a difference."

...

"In a world in which every road runs into the desert or the Interstate or the Rocky Mountains, people develop a pretty precarious sense of their place in the larger scheme. People get sick for love, think they want to die for love, shoot up the town for love, and then they move away, move on, forget the face. People commit their daughters, and move to Midway Island. People get in their cars at night and drive across two states to get a beer, see about a loan on a pickup, keep from going crazy. It is a good idea to keep from going crazy because crazy people get committed again, and can no longer get in their cars and drive across two states to get a beer. "

...

"Control is fugitive. Insanity is casual. The love-death seems as good a way of hanging on as any other. Gary and Nicole make wishes on a falling star and Nicole has 'a rush of memories then like falling down in a dream.'"

...

"These women move in and out of paying attention to events, of noticing their own fate. They seem distracted by bad dreams, by some dim apprehension of this well of dread, this 'unhappiness at the bottom of things.' Inside Bessie Gilmore's trailer south of the Portland city line, down a four-lane avenue of bars and eateries and discount stores and a gas station with a World War II surplus Boeing bomber fixed above the pumps, there is a sense that Bessie can describe only as 'a suction-type feeling.' She fears disintegration. She wonders where the houses in which she once lived have gone, she wonders about her husband being gone, her children gone, the 78 cousins she knew in Provo scattered and gone and maybe in the ground. She wonders if, when Gary goes, they would "all descend another step into that pit where they gave up searching for one another.' She has no sense of 'how much was her fault, and how much was the fault of the ongoing world that ground along like iron-banded wagon wheels up the prairie grass.'"

#norman mailer #the executioner's song #joan didion #thegloryofliving

INTO THE ABYSS

http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/into-the-abyss

Documentary by Werner Herzog that many members of the cast and crew have watched in preparation for The Glory of Living. Explores the lives of perpetrators and victims of life-ending crimes, both civilian and state-sponsored.

#werner herzog #thegloryofliving

The Glory Of Living dialect coach, Tom Coiner shares his thoughts on finding a great Southern accent....

REVOLVE PRODUCTIONS is pleased to announce Rebecca Gilman's THE GLORY OF LIVING, directed by Ashley Kelly Tata. THE GLORY OF LIVING will play a three-week limited engagement at the Access Theater (380 Broadway, New York, NY). Performances begin Thursday, August 1 and continue Sunday, August 18. Opening Night is Saturday, August 3 (8 p.m.).

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