Voyages,
by Lonely Christopher
Presented by Inter Poets Theater
February 2, 2025
Torn Page
TICKETS FORTHCOMING.
Voyages is about the short life of Modernist poet Hart Crane as he attempts to create a “mystic synthesis” of American culture in his writing while dealing with debilitating familial psychodrama and the dangers of loving men in a homophobic society. Careening through the Prohibition years in Cleveland, New York City, Hollywood, and the Gulf of Mexico, the drunken author challenges and attempts to transcend the moral order of his time and place. Surviving privation, humiliation, and the wages of vagabondage, Hart Crane negotiates the foibles and prejudices of literary friends and historical luminaries. Openly queer and with a penchant for sailors, Crane’s sex life is as scandalous and radical as his baroque, mythical, and yet strongly modern American verse. Exhaustively researched and full of linguistic pyrotechnics, Voyages animates the world of Hart Crane as never before. Join the poet on his voyage to discover Atlantis!
This is a script reading to kick off a fundraising effort for
a staged production.
Full cast to be announced.
Kyle Dunn as Hart Crane
Written and Directed by Lonely Christopher
Production History:
South Street Seaport, NYC, Classics Downtown,
April 2023 (excerpt)
La MaMa Galleria, NYC, independent, December 2018
Cast and Crew Bios
Lonely Christopher is a multidisciplinary queer experimental writer of poetry, fiction, and drama for stage and screen. He is the author of five books, most recently the poetry collections In a January Would and the 10th anniversary reissue of Death & Disaster Series. He is the founding creative director of Inter Poets Theater, managing director of the Segue Foundation, and an editor for Roof Books. His plays have been presented in Canada, China, and the United States. His film credits include several international shorts and the feature MOM, which he wrote and directed. He has worked for a decade in the field of HIV treatment and prevention for homeless youth, at the Ali Forney Center and elsewhere. He has lived in Brooklyn for two decades.
Kyle Dunn is an actor, writer and director in New York City. He just appeared in the play NEBRASKA at the Tank, and this year he directed THE MAIDS at the Flea Theater and a series of one-acts at the Williamsburg Art and History Center. You can also see him on TV in AMERICAN HORROR STORY (Disney/FX), UNCOUPLED (Netflix) and EVIL LIVES HERE (Hulu). He has also appeared elsewhere at the Tank, Soho Playhouse, Beckett’s Place, Adult Film and the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research, plus a pair of works by the artist Wayne Koestenbaum: THE COLLECTIVE (2022) an improvised feature film, and TRASH BLOSSOMS (2021). He trained at Terry Knickerbocker Studio and the Atlantic Theater Company.