November 6th - December 15th, 2013
Rattlestick Theater Presents
One Night
Written By Charles Fuller
Directed By Clinton Turner Davis
CAST
Horace Lloyd - Grantham Coleman
Voice Over - Charles Fuller
Voice Over - Xavier Galva
Voice Over - Yadira Guevara-Prip
Voice Over - Alexander Lambie
Medic/Lieutenant/Troop 2/Captain/Doctor/Interviewer/Voice Over - K.K. Moggie
Army Major/State Trooper/Troop 1/Fire Marshal/Voice Over - Matthew Montelongo
Meny - Cortez Nance, Jr.
Voice Over - Ren Santiago
Voice Over - Alec Silberblatt
Alicia G - Rutina Wesley
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER - C. Renee Alexander
CREATIVE TEAM
Assistant Set Designer - Clifton Chadick
Graphic Designer - Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo
PROPS EXPERT - Starlet Jacobs
COSTUMES - Jessica Jahn
SET DESIGNER - John McDermott
SOUND DESIGNER - Sean O'Halloran
LIGHT DESIGNER - Nicole Pearce
VIDEO DESIGNER - Gil Sperling
A co-production with Cherry Lane Theater. After surviving a fire in a homeless shelter, two Iraqi Freedom vets, Alicia G. and Horace Lloyd, are sent to a motel outside the city where they will be safe for the night. Both are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder-- Alicia as a consequence of a gang rape by three fellow soldiers while in Iraq and Horace from battlefield pressure linked to his Army MOS as a sniper. The two of them have been together for more than nine months, Horace acting as a kind of helpmate to Alicia, who was so traumatized by the rape that she can't even consider having a normal relationship with a man. Their arrival at the motel introduces them to the owner Doug Mensing, called Meny, and the beginning of our understanding of the trials sexually abused women face in the American military. Alicia refused to stay silent like so many other women and fought while she was in the Army to have the rapists punished. But only two of the men were charged and merely given pay reductions, while the third man was never named or prosecuted. Once discharged, she received little help from the VA. She found herself rejected by a religious mother who blamed everything that happened to Alicia on a "God-less army peopled by marching masturbators." Exhausted from the loss of all their possessions, and having reached a motel they thought would provide them with shelter, Alicia and Horace find themselves instead in a highway bordello. Here, throughout one night, old wounds are opened, flashbacks recount their histories and the truth of events they both hoped were over emerge from the past to color the rest of their future.
Photos by Sandra Coudert
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