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(L. to R.) Adrian Wyatt & Andrew Pastides (photo by Jason Woodruff)
OK, so the song is really Feel Like Makin’ Love, but this is close enough. Previews start October 6th, opening is October 20th. The play is “MAKEOUT SESSION”. We are sounding too much like the press release. It is below. It quotes Nietzsche. And The Beatles. Read it and buy tickets (well, that’s the idea anyway). Check out the Calendar for the dates.

“MAKEOUT SESSION”

KENAN MINKOFF’S
TWO-ACT TRIBUTE
TO
THE IRRESISTIBILITY OF SEX
AND
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF LOVE

WILL HAVE ITS WORLD PREMIERE
OCTOBER 20th
AT
TBG ARTS CENTER

PREVIEWS BEGIN OCTOBER 6th

“MAKEOUT SESSION” is the story of a couple who meet in 1987 at the age of fifteen.

They fall hopelessly in-love and helplessly in-lust.

They meet again in 1997 because they cannot but do otherwise.

They obviously have names; but we come to know them as “Boy” and “Girl” as we voyeuristically join their emotional pilgrimage back to each other.

This is an EVERYCOUPLE whose absorbing story serves as much as a warning as it does an entertainment.

ACT I, in which they makeout 27 times, deals with the issue of virginity.

ACT II, in which they makeout once, details the experience of a broken heart.

The play is by Kenan Minkoff.

The music is by the Beatles.

“Boy” is being played by Andrew Pastides.

“Girl” is being played by Adrian Wyatt.

Directed by Matt Cowart, “MAKEOUT SESSION” is being designed by Travis McHale (lights and scenery) and Elisa Richards (costumes).

THE WORLD PREMIERE
Friday, October 20th

PREVIEW PERFORMANCES
October 6th – October 15th

THE THEATRE
TBG ARTS CENTER
312 West 36th Street
(between Eighth & Ninth Avenues)

THE PLAYING SCHEDULE
FRIDAYS at 8:00 pm
Saturdays at 3:00 pm & 8:00 pm
Sundays at 3:00 pm

TICKETS
$20

FOR RESERVATIONS
WWW.SMARTTIX.COM
212-868-4444

THE AUTHOR

KENAN MINKOFF was last represented on the New York stage as the writer-producer of The Salacious Uncle Baldrick which premiered in the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival. New York Magazine called Baldrick “Smartly conceived; the timing, in more than one sense, is perfect.” Kenan has worked as a professional actor and in production and management at the Abrams Artists Agency, 3 Arts Entertainment and in the Creative Development Department of Clear Channel Entertainment’s Theatrical Division. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Screen Actors Guild.

THE DIRECTOR

MATT COWART is currently Artistic Director of the OffBeat Theatre Company. Most recently, Matt directed Kiki Baby at the Eugene O’Neill Music Theater Conference. NYC credits include: Don’t Quit [Drilling Company], The Prince of Regency [The PIT], Makeout Session [78th Street Theater Lab], Thor’s Hammer [Drilling Company], the world premiere of ShakesBARE [Sonnet Rep], the critically acclaimed Salacious Uncle Baldrick [NYC Fringe], the world premiere of We Three [Clark Studio Theater, Lincoln Center], a reading of The Middle of the Road [Cherry Lane Theater] and [sic] by Melissa James Gibson [78th Street Theatre Lab]. Matt has served as Associate Artistic Director of the 78th Street Theatre Lab and as an Associate Producer for PREMIERES. Matt was a 2004/2005 Kenan Directing Fellow at the Lincoln Center Institute, and an alumnus of the 2005 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.

FROM FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

“The same emotions in man and woman are, however, different in tempo: therefore man and woman never cease to misunderstand one another.”

FROM THE BEATLES

YOU’VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY
John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she’s gone I can’t go on
Feelin’ two-foot small

Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say

Hey you’ve got to hide your love away
Hey you’ve got to hide your love away

How can I even try
I can never win
Hearing them, seeing them
In the state I’m in

How could she say to me
Love will find a way
Gather round all you clowns
Let me hear you say

Hey you’ve got to hide your love away
Hey you’ve got to hide your love away