Michael Mizerany has worked as a choreographer most of his career but more recently has turned his attention to playwriting and to horror. This weekend he premieres his play 'A Twisted Bargain,' which was inspired by the real life Leopold-Loeb murder case.
Mizerany has always been a fan of horror even though he often covers his eyes during scary movies and screams. I know this because I have sat next to him at screenings and enjoyed his often over-the-top reactions.But through dance and now playwriting he sometimes forces himself to look at dark and horrific topics.
"The play itself dealt with the trial, but the background of the guys was really twisted. And so I delved into it more," Mizerany said."Based on that, I wanted to write a play about where I thought their minds were. Some of the dance stuff I've done has been very dark. I think a lot of it has to do with true crime. I have a desire to better understand the unthinkable capacity for cruelty and what makes a person tick and think like that because I think I could never do that.
"He's a psycho, a psycho with a little bit of a bipolar disorder," Ayala said of his character."I think he confuses the lines in between violence and sex a lot. So what does that bring into life? That's the question, I guess. Because once you feel passionate about something, you just want to do that over and over again. And that's what he feels about killing."
Mizerany took a writing workshop at the Old Globe Theatre in 2013 and emerged with a short play called"20 Minutes." This led him to create a show for"A Twisted Bargain" is the first of three plays in what he is calling a"Thrillogy."
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