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The
Stone Face
by
Sherry MacDonald
Starring:
Alex
Diakun, Allan Zinyk, Terence Kelly,
Anna
Hagan and Kyle Rideout
directed by Kevin McKendrick
October
25 – November 10 2007
The
Waterfront Theatre
1412 Cartwright Street -
Granville Island
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A
play about the making of a film called Film.
In
1964 Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett combined talents to make a little
known black and white silent film called Film. The Stone Face tells the
story of the coming together of these two iconic figures.
Synopsis
The year is 1964 and first-time film director Alan Schneider is about to
embark on a project combining the talents of Buster Keaton and Samuel
Beckett. When Alan visits the
home of Keaton to discuss the project, titled simply Film, he
discovers the former star engaged in an imaginary card game with the
long-deceased Irving G. Thalberg. It
doesn’t take long for Alan to realize that he has entered into an
altered universe resembling the surreal world of the Buster Keaton film, a
world where doors solve problems and card games provide lessons in life.
Alan turns to Beckett for help in making sense of this world, only
to find that Sam is perfectly at home in it.
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