New York Theatre Workshop

Works-in-Progress

Saturday, August 6, 13 & 20
5 pm & 8 pm
Warner Bentley Theater
$10 • Dartmouth students $3
All other students $6
General admission

Scroll down to read information on all 6 different presentations.

“Provocative” Toronto Globe & Mail

New York Theatre Workshop in the East Village, “one of this city's most funky and inviting theatrical spaces” (The New York Times), has set the standard since 1979 for developing and staging courageous new works. In '04/05, Associated Press hailed its American premiere of A Number by British playwright Caryl Churchill as “the season's most challenging and provocative play.” The New York Times called its revival of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler “refreshingly daring... an eye-opening production.” NYTW also offered two works forged right here at Dartmouth: Songs From an Unmade Bed, presented in summer '04 as the work-in-progress Admissions, and Eyewitness Blues, developed here in '03. This August, during New York Theater Workshop's 14th residency at Dartmouth, get in on the excitement. See at least one of six new works-in-progress...And when it's a hit in New York, or anywhere else in the world, say you saw it first at the Hop!

Programs may contain adult language and themes.

Saturday, August 6 • 5 pm

There Are No Strangers
Written by Jeanette Buck, performed by Holly Twyford

This powerful one-woman play is an autobiographical and heroic odyssey about violence and healing. Two years after filmmaker Jeanette Buck was brutally attacked in her L.A. home, she began shooting images and writing narrative for what would later become this “triumph-of-the-human-spirit chronicle” (Washington Post). Originally performed at Washington, D.C.'s Theater J—where Buck is associate producer—this story is a tribute to the redemptive power of creativity and the life-giving support of friends. Holly Twyford, a multiple Helen Hayes Award-winning actress, portrays Jeanette Buck.

Saturday, August 6 • 8 pm

Modern House
Written by Kira Obolensky, directed by Michael Greif

In post-World War II America, a beautiful, brilliant doctor commissions a world-renowned architect she meets at a Dartmouth faculty party to design a house for her after her husband's death. The bold result prompts difficult questions about form, values and tradition in the lives of people who come into contact with it in the ensuing years. Playwright Kira Obolensky is the recipient of numerous commissions, awards and fellowships and is also the author of three books on home design and co-author of the national best seller, The Not So Big House. Michael Greif, artistic associate at NYTW and recipient of several Obie Awards, was artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse from 1995-99 and has directed numerous plays from New York to L.A., including Jonathan Larson's Broadway hit RENT and Tony Kushner's SLAVS!.

Saturday, August 13 • 5 pm

¡El Conquistador!
Created by Thaddeus Phillips, Tatiana Mallarino & Victor Mallarino, designed & performed by Thadddeus Phillips, directed by Tatiana Mallarino

Polonio, a Colombian peasant, finds work as a doorman in a fancy, big-city highrise. The building's residents (famous TV actors filmed on location in Bogota) appear only on video phone. As the days pass, a dramatic “telenovela” unfolds, involving suspense, seduction, murder and revenge. Called “ingenious” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, this intricately constructed solo performance incorporates film, stunning set design and mini puppet surveillance sequences. Co-creator/actor Thaddeus Phillips is a Pew Fellowship recipient and artistic director of Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental (LSI). Tatiana Mallarino, from Bogota, is an artistic associate of LSI and Denver's Buntport Theater. Victor Mallarino is one of the most important figures in Colombian TV and theater.

Saturday, August 13 • 8 pm

Teach
Written by Brighde Mullins, directed by Daniel Aukin

In this modern-day parable based on a true story, an idealistic Ivy Leaguer named Adam starts teaching at a Bronx high school. Transcending differences of race and class, he reaches out to his students, especially Jamey, who with Adam's encouragement transforms from a low-achiever to winner of a poetry competition. Three years after Jamey graduates and his dreams are unfulfilled—he works at Burger King and goes to community college at night—he drops in on Adam. Multiaward- winning playwright Brighde Mullins is Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language at Harvard. Daniel Aukin, artistic director of Soho Repertory Theatre since 1999 and winner of a 2001 Obie, has an “uncanny ability to make avant-garde, 'experimental' theater thrillingly articulate and comprehensible” (The New York Observer).

Saturday, August 20 • 5 pm

The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell
Written & performed by Joe Loya, directed by Robert Egan

This personal journey through the underworld of crime and incarceration is also a multilayered exploration of the human soul: the anguish of a young man discovering and wielding his own power, the ugliness of abuse and violence, the devastation of spiritual isolation— and the humor, horror and pathos of a man grown too fat for his cell. Joe Loya, a recipient of a Sundance Writing Fellowship, is an essayist, playwright and news editor whose pieces have been published in the 8L.A. Times, *Newsday and Washington Post. Robert Egan, founding/producing director of New Work Festival, was on the Mark Taper Forum artistic staff for 19 seasons and is artistic director of the Ojai Playwrights Conference.

Saturday, August 20 • 8 pm

All That I Will Ever Be
Written by Alan Ball, directed by Jo Bonney

In his new play, Oscar winner Alan Ball examines cultural imperialism through a provocative relationship between two young men in contemporary L.A., one of whom is an immigrant from the Middle East. Ball won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the feature film AMERICAN BEAUTY and is the creator/producer of the critically acclaimed HBO series SIX FEET UNDER. Obie Award winner Jo Bonney has directed plays in theaters across the U.S. and solo performances by some of today's top actor/writers including Eric Bogosian, Danny Hoch and Will Power.