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Inventing Van Gogh

Inventing Van Gogh
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Steven Dietz
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 66
Pub. Date: 2004
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0822219549
ISBN-13: 9780822219545
Cast Size: 1 female, 4 male

About the Play:

Inventing Van Gogh is a full-length drama by Steven Dietz. When a contemporary painter, Patrick, is hired to forge Vincent Van Gogh's final lost self-portrait, Van Gogh himself begins to appear in Patrick's studio. As the reality of Van Gogh's life starts to overshadow his well-known myth, Patrick finds himself in a moral struggle. The result is a compelling and poetic mystery about madness, the obsession to create, and the fine line that separates truth from myth.

Inventing Van Gogh is a story about finding truth in art, fraud in art and truth in art fraud. The action flows back and forth between Van Gogh's studio in late 19th century France and the present-day studio of Patrick Stone, a contemporary artist hired to perpetrate the colossal fraud of creating Van Gogh's long-sought "lost" final self portrait, painted just before the artist's death, which has never been seen… until now. Stone, a contemporary painter, is hired to forge this final masterpiece – and finds himself squaring off, across the years, with Van Gogh himself. The timeline of the play jumps back and forth between past and present. When Van Gogh himself appears in Patrick's art studio, their encounter sparks a moral tangle between the forger and the famous Impressionist. The play explores the struggle between Van Gogh's myth and the truth of what the Impressionist painter really experienced, bringing to life the colours and inspiration of the artwork that we call "reality."

Inventing Van Gogh premiered in 2001 at the Arizona Theatre Company in Tuscon, Arizona. Since then the play had regional premieres at professional theatres across the US and has been mounted by colleges and community theatres.

Cast: 1 female, 4 male

What people say:

"Like a van Gogh painting, Dietz's story is a gorgeous example of excess — one that remakes reality with broad, well-chosen brush strokes. At evening's end, we're left with the author's resounding opinions on art and artifice, and provoked by his constant query into which is greater: Van Gogh's art, or his violent myth." — Phoenix New Times

"Dietz's writing is never simple. It is always brilliant. Shaded, compressed, direct, lucid — he frames his subject with a remarkable understanding of painting as a physical experience." — Tucson Citizen

About the Playwright:

Steven Dietz is one of America's most widely-produced contemporary playwrights, known for his quirky comedies that are popular at regional theatres. Since 1983, his thirty-plus plays have been seen at over one hundred regional theatres in the United States, as well as Off-Broadway. International productions have been seen in over 20 countries and his work has been translated into 10 languages. He teaches playwriting and directing at the University of Texas at Austin.

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