If you live in the Los Angeles area, please join us TONIGHT for a staged reading of Stephan’s play "Sex! Death! Violence! Humor! (A Ghost of a Chance)," which will be performed at 8:00 pm at The Blank Theatre in Hollywood. Here’s the info:
SEX! DEATH! VIOLENCE! HUMOR! (A GHOST OF A CHANCE)
Written by Stephan Cox
Directed by Susan Boulanger
Cast: Kate Connor, Andy Hirsch, Deanna Hurst, Megan Malloy, John Thoms
Devin Small has a problem: he wants to be
famous. On the verge of 40, Devin is a desperately unhappy adult working a
dead end job. So he does what anybody else might do. He takes a dinner party
hostage at gunpoint, one attended by a television producer (who, unbeknownst
to either man, is Devin’s half-brother), and forces him to put Devin on
television, live. The broadcast becomes an instant sensation, attracting
millions of viewers across the country and the world.
There’s only one hitch. Devin Small is already dead. He put a gun to his
head at the top of the show. And we’re only hours away from the worst
terrorist attack in US history.
How could this be? Guided by an omniscient spirit named Tophie Sandwiches,
we travel back in time to meet beatniks and businessmen, poets and Soviets,
through chaos and chance, to the one stark moment in 1933 where it all
began. Or perhaps that moment, too, is simply another blip in time, itself
the product of a series of events and connections that can be traced back to
the Big Bang. In the words of Tophie, "everything happens precisely as it’s
meant to. Except when it doesn’t."