2011 Season

I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill’s Lover, Last Night

A new play by Adam Klasfeld

Directed by: Mark Greenfield

Associate Producer: Faux-Real Theatre

Secret histories, whispers of revolution and visions of strawberry-rhubarb pie populate Adam Klasfeld’s new play I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill’s Lover, Last Night, coming to the 220-seat “Little Theatre” of the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center for its first public performance on Nov. 15, 2011 at 7:30pm.

A novelist wants to unravel the mystery of Joe Hill’s lover, a woman who was the alibi in the trial of a labor icon and songwriter who was executed by a Utah firing squad in 1915. With his research hitting a dead end, he finds answers coming to him in dreams. Visited by visions of folk heroes, floating pies and strange, masked figures, his obsession may lead him to an answer—or maybe just an attractive Red Herring.

Mashing up the histories of Joe Hill, Helen Keller and Martin Luther King, Jr., the play explores ideas of art, lust, commitment, self-sacrifice, heroism and the nexus between personal and social revolution.

Opening Nov. 15, 2011 at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101)

Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, and $10 for students. They will be made available for purchase by calling 718 482-5151 or online at www.LaguardiaPerformingArts.org.

This project is made possible (in part) with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts. This project is also partially developed through the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC) Lab Grant Program. Partial funding for LPAC is provided by NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, the New York Community Trust Lila Atcheson Wallace Fund for the Arts, and The Mertz Gilmore Foundation.