Conceived by
Reid Farrington & Sara Farrington

Nov 7 - 24, 2019

BrandoCapote is a multimedia dance theater piece inspired by a 1957 New Yorker magazine profile of the actor by Truman Capote. Disguised as an interview, BrandoCapote evolves into our own version of In Cold Blood, Capote's true crime masterwork. In BrandoCapote, like In Cold Blood, Capote puts a human face on an inhuman act, exposing generations of toxic masculinity, abuse and violence, while exorcising the demons of American celebrity.

Written by
Sara Farrington

Directed by
Reid Farrington

Choreographed by
Laura K Nicoll

Featuring
Jennifer McClinton, Laura K Nicoll, Rafael Jordan, Lynn R Guerra, & Cooper Howell

Stage Managed by Jaclyn Pageau
Costume Design by Andre Joyner
Lighting design by Laura Mroczkowski
Sound Design by Marcelo Añez
NOH Theater Advisor Mayo Miwa
Costumes Constructed by Kelvin Gordon-El

Developed in part thanks to the generous support of Art House Productions, Jersey City

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BROADWAY WORLD
LIGHTING AND SOUND AMERICA
THEATER SCENE
FRONT MEZZ JUNKIES
OFFOFFONLINE
PLAYS TO SEE

HISTORICAL NOTES

1957: Truman Capote interviewed Marlon Brando in his room at The Miyako Hotel for seven hours while the actor was on location in Kyoto, Japan shooting the film Sayonara. The revealing profile, The Duke in His Domain, was published in The New Yorker on November 9th 1957. At the time, Brando was the most famous movie star in the world, forever changing acting in theater and film.

1966: Capote became the most famous American writer of his generation after the publication of his “non-fiction novel” In Cold Blood, about the Clutter family murder at the hands of Dick Hickok and Perry Smith. Hickok and Smith were hung for their crimes in April 14th 1965.

1984: Truman Capote died of liver disease due to a lifelong addiction to pills and alcohol. He was 59. He never completed another book. 

1990: Christian Brando, Brando’s oldest son, murdered Dag Drollet, who was Cheyenne Brando’s boyfriend, with a single bullet to the face. Drollet, who was 25, was watching TV in Marlon’s living room when Christian shot him. Christian pled guilty to manslaughter and spent 4 years in prison. Cheyenne witnessed the murder.

1995: Cheyenne Brando committed suicide by hanging. She was 25. 

2004: Marlon Brando died due to complications from respiratory and pulmonary disease. He was 80. 

2008: Christian Brando died of pneumonia. He was 49.