Written by Kristoffer Diaz First performance 25 September 2009 Genre Comedy-drama Nominations Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Original language English Playwright Kristoffer Diaz Place premiered Biograph Theater Building | |
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Characters Vigneshwar Paduar
Chad Deity
Macedonio Guerra
Joe Jabroni
Billy Heartland
Old Glory
Everett K. Olson Date premiered September 25, 2009 (2009-09-25) Similar Comedy-drama plays, Other plays | ||
The elaborate entrance of chad deity
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is a dramatic comedy play by Kristoffer Diaz about a professional wrestler.
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Production history
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity had its world premier at Chicago's Biograph Theater on September 25, 2009 in a Victory Gardens Theater production starring Desmin Borges, Kamal Angelo Bolden, Usman Ally, Jim Krag, and Christian Litke. Designed by Brian Sidney Bembridge (scenery), Jesse Klug (lights), John Boesche (projections), and Christine Pasquale (costumes) Other productions include Philadelphia's InterAct Theatre Company (October 2009), the Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis (April 2010), New York's Second Stage Theatre (May 2010), the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles (September 2011), Actors Theater of Louisville (January 2012), the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC (September 2012), Curious Theatre Company in Denver, CO (September 2012), the Dallas Theater Center (October 2012), Charlotte's Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (April 2013)., and Sacramento's Capital Stage (July 2013).
Reviews
The New York Times said the production at the Off Broadway Second Stage Theatre "has the delicious crackle and pop of a galloping, honest-to-God, all-American satire." The New York Daily News called the same production, "flashy, fleshy and ridiculously entertaining". The Los Angeles Times said the play "leaps out of the proscenium frame at every opportunity, exhorting, drop-kicking and body-slamming its way into an immediacy that is more familiar to sporting events and rap concerts than to a traditional night of theater."