A full-length true crime documentary play created & directed by Alex Vlahov

Based on Raymond Chandler’s 1944 essay The Simple Art of Murder, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1944, A Simple Art is a live true-crime documentary looking at the 2014 New Year’s Eve murder of Vlahov’s high-school priest, Father Eric Freed. By syncing up interviews taken from Humboldt County with storytelling, dance, onstage analog devices, and repetitive tasks, the 3 Neo-Futurist cast members scrutinize the human need for narrative through the lens of noir. This new play “investigates” the region’s history, the marijuana industry, the Catholic Church, police procedure, and the crime itself, all in an attempt to explore why (and how) we construct stories from the chaos of reality. Do we embrace the mystery of life or try to solve it?

Visit http://www.nyneofuturists.org/simpleart/ for more info!