From The Deep

When Andrew, a missing BU Grad Student, arrives in the surreal room of the missing, Ilan, an Israeli POW of five years, must convince Andrew to play the games, keep his mind active, and face the truth of his captivity before they both go missing forever. From The Deep explores the question: where do we go when we’re in captivity, and what do we do to survive?

Cast Of Characters

ILAN SHALIACH, a 26 year old Israeli Solider, Prisoner Of War for 5 years, he is skinny, nearly too skinny, he has an accent when he speaks English, but he speaks English very well. He is trying to make amends.

ANDREW DAYTON, is a 23 year old American, Architecture Student, from Pennsylvania, with just a hint of an accent. ANDREW is tall, handsome in an America Apparel sort of way.

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Meet the Cast and Crew of the Boston Public Works Theater Company 2015 production HERE!

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY / AWARDS

Developmental Production at Boston Public Works at the Black Box Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts March 12th-28th, 2015, directed by Lindsay Eagle; featuring Charles Linshaw* and Jeff Marcus.
Winner of the 2014 Boston University Jewish Cultural Endowment Grant
Second place winner of the Latinidad Playwriting Award at the 2014 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
Pestalozzi full length play prize winner at the Firehouse Center For The Arts New Works Festival and received a staged reading on January 31st 2014 at 8pm. Directed by Lindsay Eagle, Featuring:Charles Linshaw* and Jeff Marcus.
Semi-finalist for the nuVoices Play Festival at Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte.
Semi-finalist for the Global Age Project 2014 at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley CA.
This play is currently under development with Interim Writers and The Accomplice Writers' Group. It was developed at Lesley University MFA Writing for Stage and Screen, mentored by Jami Brandli and Kate Snodgrass.
Reading of the first scene of this play was read May 5th, 2013, with Interim Writers at The Democracy Center in Cambridge MA. Directed by Lindsay Eagle. Featuring: Charles Linshaw* and Kelby T. Akin*.

Press

NEW BOSTON PLAYWRIGHTS COLLECTIVE DELIVERS RIVETING NIGHT - Boston Spirit Magazine, Rob Phelps

"Seldom has this reviewer seen a play set in a parallel universe, created entirely from the playwright’s imagination, transcend the genre of science fiction or the theater of the absurd. But like the best of Harold Pinter, that Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Seinuk and her cast and crew of this production have created a riveting theatrical experience. The audience not only clutches their seats to find out the final outcome of the two trapped men but also hangs onto their every sentence of dialog to learn how they come together to cope and hopefully overcome their similar yet totally different dilemmas."

“From the Deep” — Real Pain in an Imaginary Space - Art Fuse, Ian Thal

"From The Deep is further proof that Boston’s theater community would be better served if it put as much of its resources into presenting the work of local literary talent as does in the habitual importation of the (often) mediocre work stuffed into the New York-centric new play pipeline."

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