Title

All the People We Used to Know and Their Cars I’m Too Afraid to Drive

Playwright & Director

Anthony Courant

Stage Manager

Category

Workshop, MacVey Theatre

First Rehearsal

September 5

Load In/Tech /Dress

September 26-28

Performances

September 29-30

Roles to be cast

Age (Presentation)

Gender (Presentation)

Description

Andy

20s

M

Stevie’s brother

Stevie

20s

M

Andy’s brother

Little Bird

24

F/NB

Andy’s Daughter

Johanna

20s

F

Stevie’s Dealer/ Hookup

Sondheim

Any

M/NB

Stephen Sondheim

Todd

40s/50s

M

Stevie and Andy’s co-worker

Synopsis

In the aftermath of a car accident and the ending of the show two brothers have been on all their lives, their relationship finally comes to a head.

Notices

Discussion of suicide and self-harm, car accident and driving related trauma, particularly temporary disabilities related to car accidents, body horror verbiage, heavy and grotesque discussion of bowel relations.

Fight Choreography Breakdown

Page

Stage Directions/ Planned Action

Character(s)

Notes

12

(Stevey tries to wake up Todd again, maybe he slaps him, maybe he gets some water).

Stevey/Todd

12

(Stevey tries to pick him up and Stevey/Todd drags him to the couch, he slumps him up, a gun falls out of his pocket).

28

(He falls out of position doing this, Stevey goes to help him, the neighbors keep fucking).

Stevey/Andy

Andy falls down off a couch & Stevey will have to help him up (Andy is in several casts due to an injury)

63-64

SONDHEIM Why do you have the gun in your mouth?

Stevey

Stevey has the gun pointed in his mouth for a few lines, does not interact with the trigger

101

(Stevey goes up to the wall the couch is against and pushes it, it falls over flat on the ground. There is nothing. Just space).

Stevey

Pushes a wall over, no one is on the other side

103-104

(Stevey turns to go as he does, Andy stands up walks over to the couch and pulls the gun from the cushions, he aims it at Stevey’s legs. He shoots both of them right as Stevey leaves, he walks over to Stevey, Stevey yells in pain).

Stevey/Andy

104

(Andy helps him stand up, barely, only to push him back to the ground.).

Intimacy Choreography Breakdown

Page

Stage Directions/ Planned Action

Character(s)

Notes

23

(Back at the apartment sometime later, Andy has a blanket over his entire body, it is dark all you can see is the light of a computer through the sheet, it is vague, but it appears as though he is watching porn, he does this for a minute until Stevey walks in).

Andy

Staging is supposed to imply masturbation

36

(The apartment afternoon, later, there is 500$ on the counter, Andy is masturbating again under the blanket in his seat, there is a knock at the door, he quickly takes the blanket off and makes it look as though he was not masturbating. Did he finish)?

90

(Andy wheels himself over to her, they embrace, each clinging to other for their life).

Andy/Little Bird

Familial, father/daughter hug, Andy in a wheelchair

104

(Andy goes over to Stevey, he bends down, their foreheads touch, Andy spits).

Andy/Stevey

Important Dates/Holidays

9/4 Labor Day (Observed), 9/15-9/17 Rosh Hashanah*, 9/19 Ganesh Chaturthi, 9/23 Equinox (Mabon/Ostara), 9/25 Yom Kippur*, 9/27 Mawlid al-Nabi*, 9/28 Anant Chaturdashi, 9/29-10/6 Sukkot*

TIME

STEVEY

ANDY

LITTLE BIRD

SONDHEIM

TODD

JOHANNA

4:00 - 4:45

C. Asbery, L. Delarosa, W. hellenga, B. Kivett, J. Licht, L. Nelson, C. Payan, A. Seville, J. Stinson,

    

S. Gentil, J. Grosenbach, B. Kivett, R. Mcdermot, 

K. Philips, 

J. Rood, 

J. Stinson, 

T. Toom, 

J. Vernon

    

5:00-6:00

C. Asbery,

L. Delarosa, W. hellenga, B. Kivett, 

J. Licht,

 L. Nelson, C. Payan,

A. Seville, 

J. Stinson,

  

A.Bastian, 

A. Conroy, 

N.Deshpande, S.Gazdowicz, M. Nuss,

M.Rodrigue, M. Saggurti, 

A. Smerker,

B. Warfield

  

L. Delarosa, J. Fryvecind, J. Lepire, 

T. Nguyen, C. Payan,

 J. Rood, 

K. Stremler

  

6:00-6:30

W. hellenga, B. Kivett,

J. Licht,

C. Payan,

J. Stinson,

J. Drews, 

C. Duffy, 

C.Holcomb, 

E. Hooten, 

J. Lepire, 

K. Stremler, 

        

6:30-7:00

  

J. Drews, 

C. Duffy, 

C.Holcomb, 

E. Hooten, 

J. Lepire, 

K. Stremler

A. Bastian

N. Deshpande

K. Dove

C. Friemel

A. Keller

K. Kennedy

H. Larned

A. Lavrenko

N. Markowski

Z. Nolte

M. Rodriguez

N. Zapin

      

7:00-8:00

  

J. Drews, 

C. Duffy, 

C.Holcomb, 

E. Hooten, 

J. Lepire, 

K. Stremler

      

A. Bastian, R. Grave, J. Hogan, H. Kalman, J. Kinney, N. Mayer, Z. Nolte, M. Nuss, A. Paul, L. Preston, C. Rios, L. Rocca, S. Waechter, B. Warfield, A. Weiss

 

Callbacks will take place  4-8pm Sunday, August 27 in TB 41 (in the basement). Contact Anthony Courant if you have any questions or concerns.

All the People We Used To Know, and the Cars I’m Too Afraid to Drive

Cast List

Actor

Character

Colin Payan

Stevey

Kolton Stremler

Andy

Zoe Nolte

Little Bird

Joshua Fryvecind

Todd

Jordan Kinney

Johanna

Sam Gentil

Sondheim

Thank you to all who auditioned!

Send an email to confirm your acceptance

Questions?

Anthony Courant acourant@uiowa.edu

The rehearsal schedule will be posted by the first rehearsal on September 5.

Questions or concerns?

Anthony Courant, Playwright & Team Leader: anthony-courant@uiowa.edu