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Cusi Cram
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Cusi Cram
Biography
Cusi Cram's plays include: Dusty and the Big Bad World (Denver Theater Center), Lucy and the Conquest (Williamstown Theater Festival), All the Bad Things (LAByrinth Theater Company at the Public Theater), Fuente (Barrington Stage, and O'Neill Playwrights Conference), and The End of it All (South Coast Repertory), Landlocked (Miranda Theater) and A Lifetime Burning, which was a part of Primary Stages 2009/2010 season. She most recently was commissioned by Princeton University to adapt Fuente Ovejuna. She has also received commissions from The Atlantic Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, The Actors Theater of Louisville, New Georges and The Echo Theater Company. Her work has also been produced and developed by: The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, PS122 and the Dag Hammarskjold Theater at the United Nations. She is the recipient of the 2004 Herrick Theater Foundation New Play Prize, a Camargo Foundation fellowship in Cassis, France and was most recently a Bogliasco Fellow in Italy. Her work is published by Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts and Broadway Publishing. She has also received three Emmy award nominations for her extensive work in children's television. Her play, Dusty and the Big Bad World was
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A Lifetime Burning
Must we feel sorry for the wealthy and bored? Cusi Cram says yes with “A Lifetime Burning,” a play redeemed in execution from its unpromising premise. That premise may simply be the writer’s challenge to herself: Cram takes the unenviable job of humanizing a wealthy memoirist, who writes movingly about her nonexistent minority ancestry, and said memoirist’s shrill, judgmental sister. Depending on how anxious you are to pity the fortunate, the play is either an instant winner or a slow burn, but all are likely to dig fabulous perfs from leads Christina Kirk and Jennifer Westfeldt under Pam MacKinnon’s nimble direction.
“A Lifetime Burning,” which takes its title from the second poem (“East Coker”) in T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets,” starts out by knocking Emma (she of the fictional autobiography, played by a terrific Westfeldt) down a peg or two. This is a girl, after all, who describes herself as “drunkorexic,” meaning she is on a liquid diet and the liquids in question are all alcoholic. So it’s gratifying when the first thing we see is Tess (an even better Kirk), who looks like she wants to slap a coma into Emma for about 80 of the play’s 90 minutes.