Three love stories near the railroad
What is a love story? Most people think of love stories as romance, but there are many kinds of love: romantic, parental, or humanistic; love of beauty, of the land, of God; love for theatre, and love for hard work. There is love that is being born, love that goes sour, and love that dies away. These kinds of love stories are the result of the inevitable collisions between people with different wants and needs.
Three love stories near the railroad emerges from three classic American tales. In Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants," a couple grapple with the consequences of an unexpected pregnancy. In "Canary for One," three families hurtle towards uncertain futures and a parent's love turns destructive. In Desire Under the Elms, Eugene O'Neill's Americanized Hippolytus, a father, stepmother, and son struggle to find understanding and home in a land as hard and unforgiving as they themselves are. While the originals are known for their terseness and psychological realism, Krymov Lab NYC explores what lies beneath the words.
— Shari Perkins, Krymov Lab NYC Dramaturg
Three love stories near the railroad was presented by La MaMa ETC as a workshop (then titled The Americans) in 2022, and as a sold out mainstage production in the Ellen Stewart Theater in 2023.
“both visceral and dreamlike — like watching a massive 3-D painting being created, then smudged out, then remade before your eyes…strange, ephemeral wonders coalesce and scatter”
— Sarah Holdren, Vulture
PRESS
Review: New York Times
”The action is magnetic because of the director’s ability to create absorbing theater in an elemental way, often through deceivingly simple devices.”
Review: TheaterScene.net
“tackling American literature with the same whimsical and sometimes fourth wall-smashing approach that emphasizes the pure act of theater making. It is at first quite disarming in its playfulness, yet never loses sight of sincere treatment of works of literature.”
Review: Front Row Center
”Dmity’s writing and directing creates poetry in the space between stage and audience, engagement, never forgetting that we are all here together.”
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer/Director: Dmitry Krymov
Cast: Natalie Battistone, Tim Eliot, Shelby Flannery, Annie Hägg, Kwesiu Jones, Jeremy Radin, Erich Rausch, Jackson Scott, Anya Zicer
Interpreter: Tatyana Khaikin
Dramaturg: Shari Perkins
Production Designer: Emona Stoykova
Lighting Designer: Krista Smith
Costume Designer: Luna Gomberg
Sound Designers: Kate Marvin, Patrick Dunning
Assistant Production Designer: Marie de Testa
Draper / Tailor: Heather Ann Milam
Technical Director: Anna Labykina
Movement Consultants: Baye & Asa
Producers: Tim Eliot & Tatyana Khaikin
Casting Director: Tatyana Khaikin
Photos by Steven Pisano