PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts Project's Theater Company in Residence, Apron Theater Company, will present Title and Deed, by Will Eno, Feb. 17-19
The original New York production of Title and Deed was on “10 best plays” lists for 2012 in both The New York Times and The New Yorker, according to a news release. Now this unusual theater experience comes to Putney in a new production from the Apron Theater Company in association with Next Stage Arts Project. It features Michael Fox Kennedy as an unnamed exile recently arrived in the U.S., disoriented from culture shock and homesickness, struggling to illuminate the “funny little map in our head that divides the world into home and away,” with a torrent of absurd, tragic, stinging, hilarious words. Christopher Emily Coutant directs.
Performances are at Next Stage, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Kennedy and Coutant have worked together as actors and directors in Vermont community theater for a dozen years. They acted in the Apron Theater productions of Other Desert Cities and The Cripple of Inishmaan and at Actors Theatre Playhouse in Michael Frayn's Copenhagen.
They originally met when cast as a couple in a play.
“One thing led to another,” Kennedy says, “And we became a couple in real life as well. But we still love to do theater together, and when we didn't have a play to work on last summer, I found Will Eno's brilliant piece and asked Christopher to direct me.”
It will be Kennedy's second one-man show. He has presented his own play, assembled from the words of Abraham Lincoln, at many venues around New England.