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BETWEEN TWO WORLDS by Eileen Connolly is a romantic-comedy-drama based on an early Michael Powell film A Matter of Life and Death. The play is set in England during WWII. A young American Air Force pilot is shot down over the Channel without a parachute. He awakens on the coast of England believing himself dead. He then falls in love, only to be shuttled by a bumbling Angle of Death to a heavenly tribunal in order to defend his life.
Can love alone save this man’s hopes and dreams?
The original cast included: Andhy Mendez, Connie Rotunda, Joseph Goodrich, Zade O'Blenes, Dannie Flanagan, Richard Omar, Honor Molloy and Danielle Olivia Meaux.
Photos by Douglas Gorenstein
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HAMLET: the next to the last hamlet on the left
Adapted/Written, Designed & Directed by Eileen Connolly
This modern version of Shakespeare's classic play focuses on the CSI investigations of the many murders in this story. The production blended forensic evidence collection with winged angels haunting the dead, instant replays and rewinds of the death scenes, police investigators fantasizing and dancing romantically with the victims, live folk music, live video projections from the Hamlet surveillance camera, a wrestling match finale-to-the-death, and Hamlet's dead body dance with a dripping wet suicidal Ophelia.
The original cast included: Annalisa Chamberlin, Quentin McQuiston, Connie Rotunda, Kyle Quiring, Richard Omar, David DelRio, Aaron Scotti, and Ashley Pearse.
With live music by: Eileen Connolly and Ashley Pearse.
Premiere of a Brook Stowe play
Designed & Directed by: Eileen Connolly
Original Cast: Shelleen Kostabi, Richard Omar & Tamara Van Leeuwen
Dracula
The Dracula Journals was performed at The American Theater of Actors in December 2004.
Dance With Me, Harker was performed at the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2005. Adapted, Designed & Directed/Choreographed by: Eileen Connolly. Original Music Composed & Recorded by: Rob Arthur
OFF OFF ONLINE review:
Everyone knows vampires are sexy. From Byron to Buffy, vampires have been the glamorous provocateurs of our imaginations' underbellies: lithe and wan and languorous after their catnap with mortality, they always strike a cool, devil-may-care attitude amidst their bloodthirsty lusts. Dance With Me, Harker proves that the undead know how to get down and dance, too.
While remaining faithful to Bram Stoker's classic, writer and director Eileen Connolly has entirely revamped Dracula into a multimedia extravaganza that emphasizes the sultry "vamp" in "vampires." The show proceeds by way of a sampler platter of camp theatrical forms: it is by turns fashion show, ballet, striptease, opera, drug-induced fantasia, puppet theater, school lesson, mockumentary, ballroom dancing, oversized chess game, booming discotheque, hypnosis-by-swirling-umbrella, and poetry both high and low.
Seeing Andre Gide
SEEING ANDRE GIDE is an original Wallis Knot script compiled from dramaturgical research with original text highlighting French existentialism and Zen Buddhism. The performance combined music, dance, film and slide projections, multi-lingual video documentary interviews, and puppets!
Original musical score by Rob Arthur.
Designed, Directed and Choreographed by Eileen Connolly
The cast included: Richard Omar, Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, Damian Ladd, and Daniel Gunter.