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"The Asphalt Kiss" crackles like Dashiell Hammett"
The New York Sun

"An intriguing sample of Rodrigues' highly original voice."
The New York Times

"The play's fury hits like a kick in the gut."
Danbury News Times

" The Asphalt Kiss has a splashy beginning, a disturbing yet compelling middle, and a terrific surprise ending"
NYTheater.com

"An unforgettable work...." 
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Nelson Rodrigues Symposium & Festival

September 27, 2005

To mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the death of Nelson Rodrigues, the LSC along with City University of New York and the Brazilian Consualte in New York organized the Nelson Rodrigues Symposium and festival. The symposium was held at the Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall at 365 Fifth Avenue and brought together professors from Brazil and the United States to discuss Rodrigues' role in world theater. The event included readings, screenings and academic presentations.

October 5 – 30, 2005
The Asphalt Kiss @ The 59e59 Theater

The Lord Strante Co. produces the Untied States premier of The Asphalt Kiss, a play The New York Times calls Nelson Rodrigues' most timely play and a work that "confronts current-day questions of homophobia and tabloid sensationalism in prophetic fashion. The play will be directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde and will be staged at The 59e59 Theater.

“As a pedestrian hit by a bus lies dying on a Rio street, a passerby stops to cradle him in his arms and kisses him on the lips as a parting gesture of human solidarity. But the scene is witnessed by an unscrupulous reporter, who proves so successful in convincing a public hungry for scandal that the men were lovers that even the wife of the Good Samaritan comes to doubt his masculinity.”

October 2005
Readings of Nelson Rodrigues’ major plays

Throughout the month of October we partnered with three of New York' s most prestigious companies to organize readings of Rodrigues’ greatest plays. As part of the reading series, Labrynth Theater Co. actors did a reading of Seven Kittens, actors from Classical Theatre of Harlem read Black Angel and Repertorio Español participated with a reading of The Wedding Gown.