RARA-AVIS: Black Friday by David Goodis: On Stage in Chicago, April 23-June 14 1998

E J M Duggan (ejmd@mcmail.com)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:36:21 -0700 GOODIS'S BLACK FRIDAY ON STAGE IN CHICAGO

David Goodis' _Black Friday_, has been adapted for the stage and will be
showing at the Live Bait Theatre in Chicago from April 23rd.

Those of you in schools & colleges/libraries/bookshops within reach of
the Chicago area may like to bring this production to the attention of
your students/readers.

List moderators may find the following appropriate to forward to their
lists:

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March 27, 1997 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ryan La Fleur (773) 871-1212

Live Bait Theater presents an entire season devoted to crime.
If you got the time, we got the crime!

Opening April 23 - June 14
Black Friday by David Goodis
Directed by Richard Cotovsky Adapted by Christopher Peditto

What's a season about crime without a play about the dysfunctional crime
family? An artist, a damaged dame, an ex-boxer, a big eyed ingenue and a
boss
named Charlie. They all live under the same roof, but the only blood
they
share, is the blood they've spilled. 1950's crime pulp king, David
Goodis
turned crime into art, and melodrama into dramatic visions of shattered
lives.
Black Friday is the story of an artist turned criminal and how a group
of
small time crooks are bound by their complex relationships and hermetic
codes
of respect and kinship.

David Loeb Goodis was born in 1917 in Philadelphia. After a degree in
journalism, he wrote his first novel, Retreat From Oblivion, in 1939.
During
the war years he principally wrote for pulp magazines. His first four
crime
novels, Dark Passage, Behold This Woman, Nightfall, and Of Missing
Persons,
enjoyed huge commercial success and he was soon lured to Hollywood where
Dark
Passage was made into a film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren
Bacall. Fame
in the film world proved elusive and he left Hollywood soon after. For
the
rest of his career he never broke out of the ghetto of the paperback
original
and died bitter and broke at 49 in 1967. His best known work, Down There
was
later filmed by Francois Truffaut and re-titled, Shoot the Piano Player,
thus
rendering Goodis a cult figure in France. Goodis' deeply personal
fiction,
forged within the rigid conventions of the crime novel marks his
premiere
status as the poet of the hard-boiled genre.

Adapted by Christopher Peditto, former artistic director of Igloo
Theater and
directed by Richard Cotovsky, founding member and resident director of
Mary-
Archie Theatre. The cast includes Anthony Fernadez, Tom Fiscella,
Jennifer
Haering, Leo J. Harmon, John F. Mays, Arthur M. Morison, and Laura Scott
Wade.

Sets and lights, Jerry Fortier; Costumes, Lisa Marie Harrison; Sound
design,
Joe Fosco .

This production of Black Friday has been made possible by special
arrangement with the Goodis Estate.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 1998
Contact: Ryan LaFleur at (773) 871-1212

PLEASE INCLUDE IN YOUR APRIL- JUNE LISTINGS

PRODUCTION: Black Friday

PLAYWRIGHT: Adapted by Christopher Peditto

DIRECTOR: Richard Cotovsky

OPENING: Thursday , April 23

DESCRIPTION: Black Friday tells the story of an artist turned
burglar and his complex relationship to a group
of small time crooks. Adapted from the 1950s
crime pulp novel by David Goodis.

CLOSING: Sunday, June 14

CAST MEMBERS Anthony Fernadez, Tom Fiscella,
Jennifer Haering, Leo J. Harmon,
John F. Mays, Arthur M. Morison
and Laura Scott Wade.

SET & LIGHT DESIGN: Jerry Fortier.

COSTUME DESIGN: Lisa Harrison

SHOW TIMES: THURS. FRI. SAT. @ 8 PM SUN. @ 7PM

TICKET PRICE Tickets: $15.00, $10. 00 for students & senior citizen

BOX OFFICE: For reservations and ticket info call 871-1212.
Master Card/Visa accepted.

LOCATION: Live Bait Theater 3914 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL .
60613
Street parking available

Live Bait Theater 3914 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL . 60613
Opening April 23 - June 14
Black Friday
by David Goodis

Directed by Richard Cotovsky Adapted by Christopher Peditto.
Featuring; Anthony Fernadez, Tom Fiscella, Jennifer Haering,
Leo J. Harmon, John F. Mays, Arthur M. Morison, and Laura Scott Wade.

Sets and lights, Jerry Fortier;
Costumes, Lisa Marie Harrison;
Sound design, Joe Fosco.

THURS. FRI. SAT. @ 8 PM SUN. @ 7PM
Tickets: $15.00, $10. 00 for students & senior citizen

For reservations and ticket info call 871-1212.
Master Card/Visa accepted.
Street parking available

This production of Black Friday has been made possible by special
arrangement with the Goodis Estate.

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