THANK YOU from the Cast & Production Team of The Permanent Night!!!

Hello!

On behalf of the Cast & Production Team of The Permanent Night, I would like to take the time to say a big THANK YOU!

It's been a week since our last show and it is beginning to sink in on what a wonderful experience it was. Thank you for all your support and for coming to the show to share in the laughs and tears. All the accolades would not have been as precious without all of you.

We are currently in the process of rolling up our sleeves and working towards having an extended run. So stay tuned...First on the agenda is establishing the Performing Arts Company that Kari and I have wanted to start when this journey all began.

If you are interested in helping out, getting involved, or joining the team, please feel free to contact me.

Many thanks again.

Romina
Producer of The Permanent Night
thepermanentnight@gmail.com

CurtainUp.com Review

The Permanent Night
Review by Julia Furay
Friday 15 August 2008

New York City's famous blackout of 2003 is the setting for this excellent new play, written by Kari Bentley-Quinn and performed by a very talented cast of four. As the lights go out on the city, well-to-do and picture-perfect husband and wife Spencer and Heather (Dave Beagle and Vina Less) are waiting for his rebellious, bitter young sister Jane (Kat Garson, who's a terrific find) to visit. When she arrives, it doesn't take long before alcohol, the heat and the darkness bring out latent familial tensions. We watch the disintegration of Spencer and Heather's relationship concurrently with Jane's budding romance with jocular and newly wealthy neighbor Justin (Cory Whitfield). The play is, of course, set just two years after 9/11, and its effect still looms large on the characters as they come to grips with old grudges, open wounds and unspoken problems. Bentley-Quinn and director Heather Arnson have lightened the pathos with some nice moments of humor (Ms. Less in particular makes for a very funny, manic young socialite), which makes the show even more enjoyable. All in all, a standout production.

TIME OUT REVIEW...***** 5 Stars

Reviewed by Quinn Marquardt
Friday 15 August 2008

***** (five stars) Set in the Upper East Side during the 2003 blackout, The Permanent Night focuses on the tumultuous relationship between Spencer and his wife, Heather, as they wait in their darkened apartment for his troubled little sister to arrive. A deeply satisfying emotional roller coaster, with peaks of gut-wrenching laughter and lows that bring you close to tears, The Permanent Night bridges the harsh realities of a helter-skelter world with the intimately personal struggles of coping with death, betrayal and shame. “Everything that happens to you leaves an indelible mark—a tattoo, if you will,” notes playwright Kari Bentley-Quinn in the program, but her play more intriguingly suggests that impermanence gives life its value and meaning. (The inseparability of love and loss empowers each of them: If something lasts forever, can it still be precious?) Are the intoxicating effects of this play indelible? It’s too early to say, but they stay with you long after the closing scene.

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NYTHEATRE.com Review...

The Permanent Night

reviewed by Josephine Cashman

Aug 9, 2008

It's the New York blackout of 2003, and Spencer and his wife Heather are waiting for his wayward sister Jane to arrive so they can drive out to Montauk to see their mother. Spencer and Heather have a deceptively charming, shallow, and perfect life, complete with high social standing and wealth. As the lights go out, Spencer and Heather shine their flashlights and candles on the wreck of their marriage, and Jane flirts with a handsome young law student. Before the lights come back on, everyone has changed and nothing can ever be the same.

Written by Kari Bentley-Quinn, directed by Heather Arnson, and produced by Maria Romina Talabucon, this original play is having its theatrical debut at FringeNYC, and it is a surprisingly honest and appealing new work. After a slow start, the first act is well-paced and darkly comical as tensions and betrayals come into view, but the second act still feels a bit rough and unfinished. Nevertheless, the characters Bentley-Quinn has created are vibrant, flawed, and fully realized.

The actors are all quite good, and Kat Garson as Jane and Vina Less as her sister-in-law Heather do marvelous work as they struggle with their secrets and their shame, and the failings that have left their marks on them, even as they work to get past them. Their relationships with the ambitious and cocky Spencer (Dave Beagle) and sweetly straightforward Justin (Cory Whitfield) are taut, filled with hurt and betrayal, but also love and hope, and the possible specter of forgiveness.

The lighting design by Teresa Hull is amazing, using flashlights and candles to cast both shadows and light that is eerie and makes the audience truly feel that they are in a blackout. Arnson works with her actors well, but she could have used the stage a little more inventively, and the actors did not need to mime opening and closing the apartment door; the unnecessary action did not serve the play and indeed took away some of the punch of the dramatic action.

One of the pleasures of FringeNYC is discovering new plays. I look forward to seeing Bentley-Quinn further develop and refine The Permanent Night, as it packs an emotional and gently humorous wallop.

Written/created by: Kari Bentley-Quinn
Directed by Heather Arnson
Presented by Imago Film Productions, Inc.

Production Photos of TPN

Thank you to our talented Lighting Design Team:
Teresa Hull & Bradley Clements
and also for Teresa Hull who took these
beautiful production photos...

Checkout Press & Publicity...

We've OPENED!!
You can catch up and read about us at the following:

BOBOO Blog



Joey in Astoria

NewYorkCool.com


OffOffOff.com

OffOffOnline.com

Packawallop Productions

The Advocate (Stamford, CT)


The Record (North Jersey)

The Village Voice

ZEVENTS.com

And don't forget to get your tickets!
The Wednesday 8/20 is SOLD OUT,
so if that's the day you want, you should get them now!

Thanks for Partying with The Permanent Night

Thank you to everyone who came to our fundraisers.
Both fundraisers were a success and great fun!
Looking forward to seeing all of you at the show...









Special Thanks goes to
Theresa McLoughlin, Michael Quinn
and the
12th Street Ale House
who was our fantastic host!

The October Crisis - also premiering at Fringe!

Just taking a moment out of our self promotion to plug our friends at Packawallop Productions. the october crisis is Alejandro Morales' newest play, and we got a "sneak preview" this fall when Act One was read at New Dramatists. Suffice to say you are all in for a treat!

Packawallop Productions presents

the october crisis (to laura)

a new play by Alejandro Morales
directed by Scott Ebersold

1962. A cryptic telegram sends singer Marguerite Stone on a journey back to herself.

featuring:
Gayton Scott*
Caroline Tamas
Julian Stetkevych*
Polly Lee*
Timothy Davis*

scenic design by Ann Bartek
lighting design by Ban Kato
costume design by Kate Rusek
sound design by Ryan Maeker
arrangements by Masataka Odaka
production stage manager Arienne Pelletier*
stage manager Catherine Taft
photography by Greg Emetaz

Players' Theater
150 MacDougal Street (south of W. 3rd)

Friday, August 8 9:30
Sunday, August 10 12:00
Thursday, August 14 6:45
Sunday, August 17 4:30
Monday, August 18 3:00

www.packawallop.org
packawallop.wordpress.org

* Equity Approved Showcase

For tickets and information - go to www.fringenyc.org

The Permanent Night Publicity Photos

On Wednesday 2 July 2008
in Carl Schurz Park on the Upper East Side (NYC),
Ka-Man Tse photographed the Cast of The Permanent Night.

The result was the following beautiful publicity photos...

All photos © Ka-Man Tse 2008 and should not be reproduced without express permission. If you are someone who would like to use these photos for press, please e-mail us at thepermanentnight@gmail.com.

Left to Right: Dave Beagle (Spencer), Vina Less (Heather), Kat Garson (Jane) and Cory Whitfield (Justin)

Vina Less (Heather) and Kat Garson (Jane)

Cory Whitfield (Justin) and Kat Garson (Jane)

Dave Beagle (Spencer), Vina Less (Heather), and Kat Garson (Jane)

Dave Beagle (Spencer) and Vina Less (Heather)

Vina Less (Heather) and Kat Garson (Jane)

Vina Less as Heather Lawson

Dave Beagle as Spencer Lawson

Kat Garson as Jane Lawson

Cory Whitfield as Justin Thomas