NOW PLAYING:
Days and Nights
Bleecker Street Theater
45 Bleecker St., Manhattan
 to Bleecker St.
08/10/07 @ 5:00 p.m.
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In the Q-Box: Marc Stuart Weitz
In Days and Nights, playwright Marc Stuart Weitz re-imagines the iconic story of Anne Frank via Chekhov's The Seagull, using that play's dialogue to explore what it means to be trapped and confined, what is that that traps us and, most importantly, how can we be free?
Days and Nights adaptor and director, Marc Stuart Weitz, steps into this special Fringe-centric Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
What's the best thing about Fringe?
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The rabid community of audience-goers who get so passionate about all the different shows they've seen.
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What's the #1 reason people should come see your show?
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Where else can you see two shows for the price of one?
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Do you have any opening-night rituals?
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Pray that the paint dries in time.
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What are the craziest performance conditions you've had to work under?
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I acted in a film once where we had to drive across the George Washington Bridge, but we didn't have the permit to film on the bridge (this was before 9/11). So we drove the car (a 1950s-era convertible with the top rolled down) over the bridge at night with a rental truck in front of us. And the back of the truck was open and the director and camera crew were in there filming us at close distance. We had to drive across the bridge many, many times to get it right. It was pretty crazy.
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How did you get involved with the arts?
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I joined the National Dance Institute in the fifth grade because my brother had done it two years before. It was (originally) founded to get boys involved in the arts through dance, and it worked!
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THE STATS:
High school attended: Edgemont High School, Scarsdale, NY.
Favorite Class: Tie between American and English Lit. (I wouldn't want to choose between those two teachers!)
Next-up on Netflix queue: I'm embarrassed to admit I don't do Netflix.
Playing on his iPod right now: The soundtrack for my show!
Favorite pizza topping: Green olives.
Last good book he read:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon.
All-time, hands-down favorite piece of theater: The most exciting piece of theater I ever saw was Ivo von Hove's production of Hedda Gabler, at New York Theatre Workshop. It completely blew-up any prior expectations I had of the play.
Harry Potter House: Gryffindor, of course.
Who complains more: Luke Skywalker or Hamlet?
That's a tough one. Hamlet runs twice as long as Star Wars, so I might have to say Hamlet. But if you include The Empire Strikes Back, then I would have to say Luke. But at least Luke managed to kill his father without killing himself in the process.
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