Imperfect People would like to thank you for all your support in 2009!

Here’s wishing you and yours a happy and healthy New Year!

We’re writing to ask you to please support The Present Theatre Company, Inc. producers of The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) where we were able to produce THE BOOKS.

They are not asking for money, merely your vote on Facebook. Here is what you need to know about the Present Company & FringeNYC:

WHO THEY ARE:

http://www.youtube.com/fringenyc

HOW THEY DO IT:

http://www.fringenyc.org/Donor/

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

Please VOTE for FringeNYC via the Chase Community Giving Program. It only takes a few minutes, but you must do it NOW. VOTING ENDS DECEMBER 11th!
To VOTE, click here.

THE BOOKS is being published by Original Works and is now available for pre-sale.  The release date is December 4th, 2009.  Click on the image below to make your purchase.  (Copies sold during pre-sale are $7.95.)

I had the pleasure of attending a private table reading of FAITH – a newly titled version of a play that Michael has been working on for years now. We did a staged reading of it in 2005 under the title “How Do You Sleep at Night?” – but the play has also been presented under the title “Night & Day.”

A first reading of a new draft is an alternately exhilarating and frustrating experience as a director. In one way, it is the first glance at an embodied version of these characters. It’s the first time the spaces and holes in your imagination get filled with the nuances and choices of an actor.

On the other hand since they are generally cold readings – it can leave you wanting to investigate or shape moments that you won’t come back to for some time. In some cases, a moment may never return in a future draft – and an unrealized zygote of an idea may get mistaken for a weak moment in the script.

These moments get minimized when you work with a pool of actors already familiar with the style of your young playwright – which Imperfect People is lucky enough to enjoy.

I hope we get the chance to work on this script again soon. In the meantime, we’ve got other scripts to dust off and see what’s there. More soon.

Thanks to everyone who made our production of THE BOOKS a huge success!

Please stay tuned for updates on new plays in the future.

Click below to read the full review:

The Books at The Cherry Pit – Time Out New York.

“Aadya Bedi and Scott David Nogi turn in accomplished performances in this intricate dance under the disciplined direction of Matt Urban. Bedi looks smashing in Shaumyika Sharma’s sexy latex gear, but the focus here is on character. Bradley Anderson is fine in a small offstage role as a neighbor.”

Click here to read Back Stage’s full review of THE BOOKS.  Hurry – only 2 performances left!

Read Eric Grode’s review of THE BOOKS at VillageVoice.com here!

“Fascinating … shocking … this show rides a great line of tension and eroticism. Definitely worth a look.“

Check out blogger Michael Roderick’s thoughts on THE BOOKS as well as some other Fringe shows:

One Producer in the City: Oh a Fringe-ing I will go!

Win tickets to the Monday, August 24 performance of THE BOOKS … click here!