Chapter II · 2024
Cursed
HERE Arts Center, New York
The New York development production of Love Is Blonde — rewritten, recast, and renamed Cursed for its American life at HERE Arts Center.
The story
The New York transformation
In New York the play changed its skin. Rewritten for an American company and a downtown stage, it became Cursed — a development production at HERE Arts Center in 2024 that pushed the adaptation further from homage and closer to reckoning.
Cursed is not a second play; it is the same work answering a new city. What Turin staged as memory, New York staged as confrontation.
Credits
- Written by
- Argia Coppola
- Directed by
- Arseniy Fariatiev
- Norma Jeane & Marilyn Monroe
- Annie Hägg
- The Director · bass
- Seth Myers
- JFK · guitar
- Pat Brennan
- Joe DiMaggio · trombone
- Michael Pallas
- Arthur Miller · clarinet
- Izaak Mills
- Dramaturgy
- Shari Perkins
- Score
- Anna Drubich
- Set design
- Liza Irshai
- Presented by
- SubletSeries@HERE, HERE Arts Center
Development
The journey of the work
2023
The Roxy Cinema reading sparks the encounter with actress and singer Annie Hägg.
2024
The play is rewritten for a single actress and a four-piece jazz ensemble — the music becomes a character.
2024
The development production opens August 15 at HERE Arts Center, New York.
On stage
Production photographs
Interested in this work?
Scripts, press, and production materials are available on request.