Live Reading and Film: The Silencer

THE SILENCER: A STORY HAPPENING TODAY

A reading that dramatizes a story drawn from today’s headlines. The Silencer by Stone Ridge filmmaker Robert Clem is a screenplay loosely adapted from Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, updated to the present. An undocumented immigrant name Carlos Reynaldo, who works for the family of 25 year-old Kurt Roddy, is abducted by a company helping round up so-called “subversives.” Roddy finds the company’s president Richard Conner and shoots him dead in his upper east side apartment with a homemade weapon Roddy calls the “Silencer.” Roddy’s soulmate Sonia tries to stop him and afterward presses him to confess, both to explain why he committed the murder and to absolve Carlos’ son Raz, whom the police have charged with the crime.

Past films shown by Robert Clem (robertclem.net) at the Rosendale include the dramatic features Company K and The Passion of Miss Augusta, and the award-winning documentaries How They Got Over: Gospel Quartets and the Road to Rock ‘n Roll and Uncle Tony, featuring the Rosendale Theater’s long-time projectionist Tony Caccio. Clem’s documentary Big Mama Thornton: I Can’t Be Anyone But Me will be coming to the Rosendale in the fall. The cast for the reading of The Silencer will include Jordan Zakka, Ashley Hill, Phillip Levine, Rebecca Brown Adelman, Aimee Trombore and Brett Owen.