Limousine, Midnight Blue

solo performance · the porters of hellsgate theatre co. · Ages 16+ · United States

one person show

Limousine, Midnight Blue Press Release

June 09, 2013

For Immediate Release
The Porters of Hellsgate present
Limousine, midnight blue
A One-Man Show starring Jamey Hecht
Produced by The Porters of Hellsgate

In this year of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination, Jamey Hecht presents a one-man, multimedia sight and sound show: Limousine, Midnight Blue, based on his 2009 book from Red Hen Press, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film, at Theatre of NOTE.

Limousine is a sequence of 36 poems of 14 lines each. It uses the famous and appalling “Zapruder Film” of JFK’s death as a prism through which to view America and the world. Refracted rays touch on crime and punishment; guilt and responsibility; charisma and love; the dying victim’s experience during the stretched-out seconds of his violation and death; and the dark world of war profiteering, narco-traffic, and deceit where the...