Ice Station Zebra
Full-length Drama, 75 Minutes 2W, 3M
In the final day of Howard Hughes’ life—when he was living in virtual isolation in Las Vegas’ Desert Inn—Hughes assumes the persona of an Egyptian pharaoh. The Desert Inn becomes his pyramid and his Mormon handlers his high priests. Hughes embodies a person living in time, not space, as he travels around the world from a location that never changes. In the background his favorite movie, Ice Station Zebra, plays—which he purportedly watched 168 times—about men trapped and totally isolated in the North Pole.
Cast Requirements
2 women
3 men
Honors
VRI Contemporary Scripts, Los Angeles.
Press
“Her vision is multi-leveled: a sophisticated sense of design integrates a mobile set of sliding walls, backroom scenes and finger-snapping, bebop choreography to create busy, tightly-directed, eye theatre . . .”
—High Performance, Roberto Gautier
Production and Development History
Premiere: The Ohio Theatre, New York City (1985), produced by Creation Production Company, Inc
Ice Station Zebra
Written and Directed by Susan Mosakowski
Music: Vito Ricci
Set Design: Tom Dale Keever
Light Design: Pat Dignan
Cast: David Alton, Karla Barker, Michele Elliman, Matthew Maguire, Michael Ryan.