Needless Matters – PlayReading

NEEDLESS MATTERS by Craig Walker
Friday, December 6, 2013

Late one evening in the spring of 1892, the great English actor-manager Henry Irving and his business partner Bram Stoker are paid a backstage visit by the American showman “Buffalo” Bill Cody. As the whiskey flows discretion is cast aside and the conversation moves through an ever more dangerous gauntlet of topics, including vampires, journalism, Shakespeare, freemasonry, the late Prince Eddy, Chief Sitting Bull and finally and most ominously, the recent Jack-the-Ripper murders. What begins as a genial chat slowly gives way to forced confessions and ugly recriminations…

Director: Charlotte Gowdy
Irving: Ian D. Clark
Stoker: Brett Christopher
Cody: Mo Bock