I AM PROVIDENCE,
Or,
All I Really Needed to Know about the Stygian Nightmare into Which Mankind Will Inevitably Be Devoured, Its Fruitless Screams of Agony Resounding in the Unending Chasm of Indifferent Space as It Is Digested by Squamous and Eldritch Horrors beyond Comprehension for All of Eternity, I Learned from Howard Phillips Lovecraft
A Lovecraftian Solo Show in 2 Acts

Synopsis: Um ... well ... it's a curtain speech, but it's not a curtain speech. It's, I guess, basically, it's half an extended pseudo-improvised stand-up comedy riff about the life and works of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft (and the equally terrifying world of trying to be a working actor), and half a mind-bending, existentially horrifying investigation into why we are drawn to write (or read) dark material.

Run-time: 1hr, 45m, with 1 intermission
Breakdown: 1M

Production history:
I Am Providence was produced in March 2011 at the Manhattan Theatre Source as part of Things at the Doorstep: An Evening of Horror Based on the Works of H.P. Lovecraft alongside Greg Oliver Bodine's one-man adaptation of Lovecraft's The Hound.

Written by, produced, and starring Greg Oliver Bodine and Nat Cassidy
Directed by Delisa M. White
Stage Managed by Laura Schlachtmeyer
Sound designed by Jay Spriggs
Lights designed by Kia Rogers
Props by Jason McKittrick
Original Music by Chad Fifer
Audience wrangling by Annalisa Loeffler
Production assistance by John Watts  and Catie Choate
Press and awards:
Winner, New York Innovative Theatre Award 2011, for Outstanding Solo Performance.

"A deliciously creepy evening full of surprise and frisson ... Very learned and highly entertaining with exciting and daring risks ... Puts us smack in Lovecraft’s territory of the weird and wild ... A near-perfect horror fest ... The audience, breath held, hang[s] on every sound and word. This is pure storytelling." 
- Nita Congress, nytheatre.com
 
"Truly amazing ... An unexpectedly brilliant mediation on the use and function of horror, on H.P. Lovecraft himself, on the supernatural, on storytelling, on death, on hope. ... A play creepy and magical enough to do old H.P. proud. ... I'm still thinking about it, days later."
- Tor.com

"Successful for so many reasons ... A true treat ... Entertaining, educational and strangely unsettling. Any fan of horror in general shouldn't miss this show ... Riveting." 
- Weston Clay, Theatre is Easy

"It is the most delightful thing we have ever seen anyone pull off on a stage, anywhere, ever, and if you are in New York you must go see it. You must. You REALLY MUST. Go. GO."
- The Rejectionist, The Rejectionist

"Oh God why. WHY."
- The Village Voice