Time Alone
Winner 2018 Stage Raw Award for Playwriting
Play Description
TIME ALONE traces the parallel journeys of a young man convicted of killing a gang rival and a woman whose son — a police officer — is murdered in the line of duty. Both end up in places of extreme loneliness: a solitary confinement prison cell and the silent house of the bereaved. As time itself seems to unravel, their tales both contrast and mirror each other, providing answers to each other's questions — until they find new doors to life.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
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“Alessandro Camon’s two-hander transpires in overlapping monologues between Anna Jackson, a traumatized shut-in whose police officer son was killed in the line of duty, and Gabriel Wayland, a prison inmate in solitary confinement. The characters — both sympathetic, both impassioned — hold forth about their radically different views on the nature of time, regret and the criminal justice system. Gabriel speaks from his cell, Anna from the prison-like home … His drama comes full circle in a beautifully realized denouement that emphasizes not only our human need for connection, but our innate and sometimes surprising capacity for forgiveness.” —F Kathleen Foley, Los Angeles Times
“I was riveted … sharp writing and observations … In their haunted isolation, for all their differences, victim and perpetrator both experience time as a tool of torture. And then, in a twist I can’t give away, they discover a connection that carries with it a hint of redemption.” —Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times
“Stunning … Poetic writing … An inspired two-hander that casts a jaundiced eye on the criminal justice and prison systems … Camon employs the same grim nuance that was so successful in his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Messenger … His familiarity with the subject brings immediacy as well as emotional and psychological veracity to his writing.” —The Hollywood Reporter
Author(s)
Alessandro CamonAlessandro Camon is a writer and producer born in Italy and currently living in Los Angeles. He is best known for writing The Messenger, a contemporary drama about military officers delivering casualty notifications, with writer/director Oren Moverman. The screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, Spirit Award, and Humanitas Award, and it won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival. Alessandro's producing credits include Owning Mahowny, Thank You For Smoking, The Cooler, American Psycho, Bad Lieutenant: New Orleans and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. He is currently writing Black Lion, with Andrew Garfield attached to star. Alessandro started his career in Italy, as a television programming executive and film critic. He holds a Degree in Philosophy from the University of Padua, Italy and an MA in Film from UCLA. He has published several books and articles on film and popular culture, both in English and Italian, and is a contributor to Salon.com and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Alessandro is married to film producer Suzanne Warren (The Last King of Scotland, Edge of Darkness, Hacksaw Ridge).
Special Notes
If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:
World Premiere produced by Belle Rêve Theatre Company
(Executive Producer Michelle M. Núñez, Producers Suzanne Warren and Tanya Cohen)
in Los Angeles, October 2017
In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypub.com
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