This personal cosmic baseball game is between actors playing the roles in a play about an abstract expressionist artist. Writer John Logan's RED was the most honored play at the 2010 Tony Awards, including the honor for best play. The story, set in an artist's studio, dramatizes Mark Rothko, a real painter, and his interaction with a (fictional) young assistant. Rothko is working on paintings to be hung in a restaurant. The cosmic baseball game looks at the psychodrama performed on the field of play.
Playwright (John Logan): It's a story about [Rothko's] artistic journey. It's a story about money and art but mostly it's a story about his relationship with his protege. It's about a young man's relationship with an old man, a student and a teacher, a son and a father."
Actor (Patrick Andrews, Ken): There's so many examples in culture of radical change happening and I think Logan is exploring pressure cooking all of that into one art studio that happens to be Rothko and an assistant.
Actor (Edward Gero, Mark Rothko): Rothko is probably the most influential and maybe the most famous American painter that many people don't know.
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When a baseball game opens up with a fielding error, stolen bases, a triple, and a home run, you know it's going to be a strange game. But actually, after the Ken Actors scored four weird runs in the first inning, things settled down and this was a well-played game, for the most part. The Ken Actors won with only one earned run; in baseball unearned runs win games just like earned runs. But we ae are still trying to account for the fact that despite 11 hits, the Rothko Actors could only score 2 runs. | |
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| KEN ACTORS Roster | |
| Jack Cutmore-Scott | Thirdbase |
| Patrick Andrews | Leftfield |
| Ryan Didato | Rightfield |
| David Coomber | Centerfield |
| Matthew Carlson | Secondbase |
| Karl Baker Olson | Firstbase |
| Haley Joel Osment | Shortstop |
| Sean Glazebrook | Catcher |
| Eddie Redmayne | Pitcher |
| ROTHKO ACTORS Roster | |
| Jeff Still | Firstbase |
| Brian Dykstra | Centerfield |
| Edward Gero | Rightfield |
| Gregg Weiner | Shortstop |
| Jim Mezon | Secondbase |
| Michael Hurst | Leftfield |
| Thomas Derrah | Thirdbase |
| Stephen Rowe | Catcher |
| Alfred Molina | Pitcher |
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| Game Date | January 25, 2012 | |||||
| Game Duration | 2 hours, 50 minutes | |||||
| Weather | 68o, overcast | |||||
| Attendance | Undisclosed | |||||
| Umpires | Frank Lloyd, Bernard Reis, Theodoros Stamos | |||||
| Official Scorer |
 Harry Cooper
Game's Most Cosmic Player [MCP]
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 Karl Baker Olson
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The KEN ACTORS won this cosmic baseball game because RED isn't really about painting or art. As playwright Logan says, it's about a relationship. The Ken character really isn't a composite of the various younger assistants Rothko employed. This is a psychodrama about the Freudian child as father to the man...and it leaks Oedipus red everywhere you look. | ||
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