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Inventing Van Gogh
Inventing Van Gogh
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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
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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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