“ Dos Gardenias is about a gift of two flowers that represent the love between the singer and his lover. “The song Stayin Alive is literal thematically,” Stamp explains. Lonzo Liggins as Will and Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin as Janice, I’m Go Home Come Back by Darryl Stamp, directed by Cheryl Ann Cluff, Plan-B Theatre. ![]() Stamp’s tastes are cosmopolitan and ecumenical, including throwbacks such as Charmaine by the Mantovani Orchestra and Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees, immortalized on the soundtrack of the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever. ![]() Songs include Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride, The Chainsmokers’ Don’t Let Me Down, Post Malone’s Better Now, Macy Gray’s I Try, Al Green’s Everything’s Gonna Be Alright and Oleta Adams’ Get Here. In fact, he has created a playlist, which embodies the tone conveyed by specific scenes, narrative arc and characters’ words in the script. Stamp’s style is heartwarming in its comedic touches as well as his wonderful sense of envisioning his characters through ambient music and songs that he found clarifying in conceiving the backstory for his play. ![]() 23 and running through March 5 in the Studio Theatre at the Rose Wagner Center for Performing Arts. This week, Plan-B Theatre offers a world premiere run of Go Home Come Back, directed by Cheryl Ann Cluff, beginning Feb. And, I worried about what would happen if I get the virus, made worse because of my asthma, and someone would have to hold up a cellphone up to me so what I am saying in my final moments could be transcribed for those who could not be with me then.” I have asthma and I heard that when some people who had COVID-19 were unable to breathe they were intubated. In an interview with The Utah Review, he says, “In the early stages of the pandemic, I started freaking out a bit. These include Heaven Can Wait (1978), in which Warren Beatty plays a pro quarterback killed in an auto accident, and Defending Your Life, a 1991 film written by and starring Albert Brooks who plays an advertising executive, also killed in an auto accident, but who must defend himself in a celestial trial to determine if he is fit for reincarnation.īut, Stamp also draws on his own experiences of grief and missed opportunities, including instances where he was both able and unable to say goodbye to a loved one at the moments of their death. In writing Go Home Come Back, Darryl Stamp, who has been a standup comedian among other roles in his life, says he was in part inspired by film comedies with a similar broad narrative vein. When the time expires, they are returned to the hereafter for their “final placement.” Because they “left too soon,” Will and James were randomly selected to see their loved ones again for an hour - an extraordinary opportunity to make things right. Their paths cross in the hereafter when they meet Llecenia, the global marketing manager who has come up with Go Home Come Back Day, complete with a no-souls-down payment feature. ![]() James, a demolition worker who has a challenging relationship with his daughter, is crushed by falling pieces of a collapsed building. Will, a sales manager, is supposed to be on his way to celebrate his wife’s birthday but he has a fatal accident because of distracted driving.
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