April 22 – May 2, 1995
Downstairs at the Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church
New York City

July 20 – 22, 1995
At the Ohio Theater part of Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory Festival

Description:
Using the text of a Harper's Magazine Forum as ignition, Hangdog Theater launches the backroom candor of six conservative strategists into absurdist horror. "A Revolution, or Business as Usual?" (Harper's, 3/95) leaps off the page and into a realm where rhetoric leads to a cha-cha dance, allegiances turn to choke-holds and the well-oiled thought machine churns like never before. Washington's finest conservative call boys –Ralph Reed, Frank Luntz, Mike Murphy, William Kristol, James Pinkerton, and David Frum–under the moderation of Harper's senior editor Paul Tough, devolve into delusions of grandeur and an all-new vision of totalitarianism cloaked in wolf's clothing.


Produced by
Hangdog Theater

Adapted, directed and scored by
Robert Cucuzza

With
Mike Rubens as Paul Tough
David Yezzi as David Frum
David Cote as William Kristol
Paul Kaup as Frank Luntz
Rik Nagel as Mike Murphy
James Urbaniak as James P. Pinkerton
Bradley Glenn as Ralph Reed (Ontological)
Robert Cucuzza as Ralph Reed (Ohio Theater)

Dramaturgy
Sally Eberhardt
Choreography
Robert Cucuzza and Mike Rubens
Lighting Design
Allen Hahn (Ontological)
Jennifer Tanzer (Ohio Theater)
Stage Manager
Alicia Cheng
Sound Board Operator
Scott Mascena (Ontological)
Jennifer Woodward (Ohio Theater)





2004
• Thanks to Robert Moses [reading]
• Gatsby [work-in-progress]
• Plan B [excerpt]
• Room Tone [U.S. tour]

2003
• Panic! (How to be Happy!)
• Katzenjammer Comedy Hour
• Room Tone

2001
• Listen Houdini
• Katzenjammer Comedy Hour

• Hospital 2001
• Welcome Houdini

2000
• Hospital 2000
• Total Fictional Lie [U.S. tour]

1999
• Hospital 1999
• The Creeper [rough sketch]
• Speed Freaks

1998
• Stiff [rough sketch]
• Total Fictional Lie
Laguna Beach
• The Fabulous Johnny Cash Show [rough sketch]

1997
• The Sticky Banister
• Adirondack

1996
• Permanent Brain Damage
• Mean Rich White Ladies
• Be Emphatic!
• Museum of Unnatural Seriousness

1995
• Part-Time Poltergeists
• Unconscious Motives of
the Motion Picture Industry : Part I

• R
ich White Farmers

1994
• Parlour Problems
• Man Oh Man Ray
• My Head Was a Sledgehammer

1993
• Sincerity Forever
• I Hate Women
• Love Clump
• Samuel's Major Problems