ALLAN HAVIS
Morocco
Hartford Stage Company, CT
In
Morocco, a Jewish-American architect is plunged into a nightmare when
his half-Arab wife is inexplicably jailed for prostitution. Caught between the
passion and anger of his enigmatic wife and the mysterious values of an Arab
colonel who has arrested her, the architect finds himself plummeting deeper
into a vortex of suspicion. Morocco is an intriguing thriller that reveals the
political and cultural differences between the West and Middle East.
Allan Havis' works, which
include A Daring Bride and Sainte Simone, have been produced by
Seattle's ACT, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, American Repertory Theatre, South
Coast Rep, Virginia Stage Company,
The
Philadelphia Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Home for the Contemporary
Arts, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Odyssey Theatre, and the Viceroy in England.
In New York, he has directed his plays at WPA, West Bank Cafe, and BACA. His
play Morocco received the 1985 FDG/CBS Award, the 1986 Playwrights USA
Award from HBO, and was presented on German radio by Rowohlt-Theater Verlag.
Produced throughout the country, Morocco was published in TCG's anthology
New Plays USA 3 and Broadway Play Publishing's single author collection with
his plays Hospitality and Mink Sonata. His play Hout Gout
was also seen on both coasts and published by TCG. Lilith was published
by Broadway Play Publishing. A Vow of Silence appears in Penguin's Contemporary
Jewish Plays Anthology, Fruitful and Multiplying. Mr. Havis' children's
novel Albert the Astronomer, published by Harper and Row, was adapted
for the stage through a commission by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute. Other
commissions have come from South Coast Rep, CSC Rep, England's Chichester Festival
Theatre, and Ted Danson's Anasazi Productions. He has been assisted by major
grants including a Guggenheim, NEA, Rockefeller, McKnight, New York, and California
Arts Fellowships. Mr. Havis is the Head of Playwriting at the MFA Theatre Program,
University of California, San Diego, and holds an MFA from the Yale School of
Drama.
Director:
Mark Lamos
Featured Performers: Paul Butler, Keir Dullea
Running Dates: May 9-June 13, 1987
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts