Duncan Pflaster's Play to Touch on Cinema's Dark Side at Spotlight-On Festival

Playwright Duncan Pflaster and director Aliza Shane blur the lines of life and art in A TOUCH OF CINEMA, about a dinner party turned dark when the guests must hear a screenplay about the abduction and torture of a young filmmaker who made "seditious" movies.

Dina Kummerspeck, a filmmaker in a small country that isn't America, has been taken by the newly-fascist government and tortured for her films. Now returned home under house arrest with an electric shackle on her ankle, she and her husband, Tomas, invite over their actor friends for a party, but unbeknownst to them, it's going to be a secret reading of Dina's new screenplay loosely based on her torture.

Featured in the cast are Michael Daly, Lars Engstrom, Russell Jordan, Diánna Martin, Lucy Spain, and Kristen Vaughan.

April 23 @ 8:00 pm; April 24 @ 8:30 pm; April 26 @ 5:00 pm; April 27 @ 8;30 pm, as part of RISE OF THE PHOENIX: The 2017 Spotlight-On Festival, April 17 - 30 at The Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, NYC. Jmae.events@gmail.com for more information.

The event is produced by Frank Calo, founder of Spotlight-On Festivals, the first organized theater festival in New York City, pre-dating the New York Fringe Festival by one year.