Falls for Jodie

by Eric Micha Holmes

A Tank Core Production

Produced by Terrence I Mosley and Eric Micha Holmes

Associate Producer Caroline Pastilha

When young men are in crisis, it is an issue of public health and safety

1980. New Haven, Connecticut — Four months before he will attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr. moves into the Colony Inn with a simple plan to make Jodie Foster his girlfriend. In his first night at the hotel, John meets Eddie, the night concierge, where they discover a shared dilemma: both are in love with Yalies who don’t know they exist. When Eddie offers to connect John to Jodie in exchange for an investment, their business partnership blossoms into an unexpected friendship, revealing a growing crisis neither recognizes in the other before it’s too late.

Falls For Jodie asks: “How can the pursuit of love escalate to a national tragedy”?

Cast:

Boone Sommers (John Hinckley Jr.) and Harry Thornton (Eddie)

Design Team:
Rodri Hernandez Martinez (Costume), Gavin Strawnato (Lighting and Projection), Chen-Wei Liao (Scenic), Cailey Harwood-Smith (Props), Padra Crisafulli (Sound), Ari Cleveland (Associate Sound), Hillary Bonhomme (Composer), Tim Zay (Violence)

Production Team:
Jessica Stekloff (Production Stage Manager), Zoë Parrish (ASM), Jon Hayes (Technical Director), Nate Dallimore (Music Consultant), Yichun Li (Head Electrician), Lynn Masako Cheng (Social Media Manager/Content Producer), Cason Doyle (Content Producer)

Director’s Note:

Cinema is the central lens for this production. I’m interested in how great films guide our attention without dictating what we should think.  Great Cinema and Theatre help us see details we might not otherwise notice.

In Falls for Jodie, John begins to view his life cinematically. Obsessed with Taxi Driver, a film about a loner who observes society’s darkest corners and ultimately becomes part of them, John begins to see his own life reflected in the film. He doesn’t just watch Travis Bickle and Iris, played by Jodie Foster, he begins to inhabit their world. He desires to become Bickle. To be a hero. He is the tragic embodiment of the phrase “Bro, my life’s a movie.” Through this production, I want to invite the audience to look closely, sit with contradictions, and discover what might otherwise go unseen.