Cimino's Defeat, presented by Adult Film

Adult Film will present the World Premiere of Cimino’s Defeat by playwright Eric Faris, directed by Sam Cini, at Torn Page (435 W 22nd Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues).

After gaining acclaim and recognition with his film The Deer Hunter, director Michael Cimino rose to fame and power within the flourishing New Hollywood system. With his new found success came megalomania, and Cimino's following film Heaven's Gate was rife with production troubles and ultimately flopped. This commercial and critical failure resulted in the end of Hollywood's director driven era and the beginning of commercial, studio driven filmmaking. Witness the seeds of this cinema apocalypse in an intimate, behind the scenes style in Cimino's Defeat.

Running from January 21 - February 14. Previews begin January 20 for a January 23 opening.

The cast includes Tad D'Agostino, Hannah Hale, Gia Bonello, Matthew Zimmerman, Kristiana Priscantelli, Jeremy Cohen, Joey D'Amore, & Trevor Clarkson.

The creative team for Cimino’s Defeat includes Joey D'Amore (composer), Caroline Cassidy (stage manager), Joshua Matteo (Assistant Director)-

Adult Film is an NYC theatre company, film studio, and artistic training center. We are a peer-led class company following our curiosity about what it means to be an American actor. Most company members come from a distinctly working-class background, and our values reflect that with extremely affordable training and tickets. AF is dedicated to collapsing the boundaries of theatre and film with a focus on acting itself, developing actors as writers and directors, and giving writers and directors a deeper upstanding of actors. Our growing community is centered around the work, outside of the pressures of the commercial world, about mess, ambiguity, the dark side, bad behavior, creativity, possibility… the human condition.

AF was founded in January of 2022 by artistic director Ryan Czerwonko. Our ethos evokes the Group Theatre, Steppenwolf, Nikos Psacharopoulos's work at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Andre Gregory, and the Wooster Group. What better way to manifest the ethos of Adult Film than with Cimino's Defeat.

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