American Playwright series: James Howard Kunstler “Big Slide”
| Jan |
| 9 |
| 7:30 pm |
click here to listen to visit Mr. Kunstlers “big Slide” page
Listen to Act 1 of the podcast here
Click here to listen to podcast of Mr Kunstlers’ road trip to Rochester
directed by Michael H. Arve January 9th, 2010 doors open at 6:30 pm
limited tickets available at door
Author James Howard Kunstler will introduce a staged reading of his play “Big Slide” as part of MuCCC’s American Playwright series on January 9th, 2010 at 7:30 PM at the MuCCC Theater, 142 Atlantic Avenue
(listen to Mr Kunstler interviewed on 
Streamed live on AM 1370: wxxi.org/listen Friday, Jan 8, 1 pm.)
James Howard Kunstler is the author of over a dozen books, including the non-fiction titles The Long Emergency andThe Geography of Nowhere, as well as ten novels, most recently World Made By Hand, published in 2008 by theAtlantic Monthly Press. (A sequel is scheduled for publication in 2010).
January 9th, 2010
His recent books have been concerned with a wide range of urgent issues, including the global oil predicament, the banking fiasco, and the problems associated with suburban development in America.
He received a bachelor’s degree in Theater from the State University College at Brockport, 1971, where he acted in plays ranging from Waiting for Godot to The Cherry Orchard to Marat/Sade. He became a newspaper reporter after college and eventually an editor at Rolling Stone Magazine. . His articles have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Washington Post. Mr. Kunstler lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains.
“Big Slide” is a three-act play set in the autumn of an unspecified near-future year, at an Adirondack “great camp” where three generations of the Freeman family have taken refuge fromNew York and Boston during a severe national political maelstrom. We are never fully apprised of the exact nature of this event, but it appears to involve a coup d’etat in the White House and the uprising of local militias all over the nation in response. The estate at Big Slide is isolated from these events, but news dribbles in by radio. The electricity has stopped working and law enforcement seems to have been suspended, making it dangerous to travel even to the nearest town for food and necessities. The thirteen members of the family, ranging from the dying patriarch, Clifford Freeman, to his grown children and their spouses, to the two teenage step-siblings, Raven and Zach, struggle to work out how they will organize themselves for survival in the months ahead against a background of old and deep personal grievances with each other.
The Cast: Roger Gans, Kevin Indovino, Ira Simel, Micky Markert, Diane Chevron, Jeff Moon,
Denise & Don Bartalo, Fiona Criddle, Gavin Price, Meredith Powell and Allan O’Grady Cuseo
