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Dartmouth Theater Department and the New York Theatre WorkshopWorks-in-ProgressSaturday, August 2 & Saturday, August 9 Even after a quarter century producing and staging new plays, New York Theatre Workshop never looks back. Having laid the foundation for innovation and excellence in theater, the multi-award-winning off-Broadway company continues to build on it year after year, pushing onward with the sky the limit. Now in its 17th residency at Dartmouth—a three-week period of exploration, education and the development of new works—New York Theatre Workshop gives you, the audience, the opportunity to respond to new works-in-progress. Be among the first to sample—and help shape—the drama or comedy, tragedy or musical that could become a critically acclaimed production in New York and beyond. In its '07/08 season in New York City, NYTW garnered superb reviews for its plays, including two that had their origins as works-in-progress at the Hop: the solo show Liberty City, which Associated Press called “powerful and compelling…exceptionally stirring and a vivid tribute to a family and a time,” and The Black Eyed, which The New Yorker hailed as “gorgeously conceived and realized drama.” This summer, when The Workshop comes to Hanover with six new works-in-progress, be sure to play your part—and join the inner circle! I Got Sick Then I Got BetterSaturday, August 2 • 5 pm This solo performance is about the harrowing tailspin of being diagnosed and treated for ovarian cancer. Combining humor with wrenching emotion, this witty, bittersweet monologue tells of personal and family collateral damage from the illness. Jenny Allen is a writer/performer/comedian whose pieces have appeared in The New York Times, New York, Vogue, Esquire and Life. She is the author of a collection of fables for grown-ups called The Long Chalkboard, illustrated by her cartoonist husband, Jules Feiffer. She helped originate the '80s comedy group "serious Bizness" and has performed in productions of Jules' Blues and Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell. Darren Katz is currently directing Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower at the Zipper Factory and developing three new music-theater productions. He was resident director for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on Broadway and is directing its second national tour. 5:20Saturday, August 2 • 8 pm Two men from Yonkers, New York, go to Iraq. One is working for a Halliburton subsidiary, the other is a Marine. They both come home—one alive. Irreverent and gripping, this is a story about the Iraq war told through the eyes of ordinary Americans and their families on the home front. Writer Kate Moira Ryan, who workshopped her play Cavedweller at the Hop in 2000 and OTMA in 2002 (opening in Rome next spring) is the recipient of the 2007 and 2008 GLAAD Media Awards. A book based on her play 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, written with Judy Gold, was published by Hyperion and nominated for a Quill Award. Director Michael Greif has extensive credits on and off-Broadway, including directing Jonathan Larson's RENT and Tony Kushner's Bright Room Called Day. He has won Obie, Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Awards, and a 2007 Tony nomination for the Broadway production of Grey Gardens. AmerivilleSaturday, August 9 • 5 pm Scheduled to premiere in its final multimedia version in 2009, Ameriville examines social and political realities of post-9/11 America. With Hurricane Katrina/New Orleans as a lens, Ameriville scrutinizes attitudes about race, poverty, history and government. It reminds us of our vulnerability to the internal American wars, censorship, the marriage of church and state—and exposes a disrobed Lady Liberty, no longer sure of her own beliefs. UNIVERSES Poetic Theater Ensemble is a company of four award-winning writers and performers who challenge traditional theater with their trademark style fusing poetry, politics, imagery and music (hip-hop, jazz and down home blues). Miriam Weisfeld, dramaturg at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., has also done work for NYTW, A.R.T., Steppenwolf Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Lookingglass Theatre, and has lectured at Harvard, MIT and the Moscow Art Theatre School. PunkplaySaturday, August 9 • 8 pm Mickey, a 13-year-old misfit growing up in the suburbs in the '80s, is befriended by an angry runaway named Duck. They reinvent themselves in the image and attitudes of punk rock, but their fabricated, amped-up world soon becomes just as oppressive as the one they're rebelling against. A personal narrative of growing up as an outsider, punkplay is a mix-tape tribute to the excesses and energy of adolescence. Playwright Gregory Moss, the recipient of a 2006-2007 Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, has written several plays produced by theater companies in the U.S. and since 1999 has run Independent Submarine Productions, dedicated to original art in a variety of media. Les Waters, associate artistic director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, has won numerous awards, including an Obie. His work has been seen in theaters across the U.K. and U.S. and been included in The New York Times' Top 10 Plays of 2006 and Time Out New York's Best 5 Plays of 2005. DawnSaturday, August 16 • 8 pm Dawn is a father's story of redemption and reconciliation after leading a life dictated by alcoholism. While on the path of recovery, he finds God and is confronted with dark revelations that unravel the world he once knew. Thomas Bradshaw, professor of playwriting at Brooklyn College, has been named one of the top 10 playwrights to watch by Time Out New York and Best Provocative Playwright in 2007 by The Village Voice. His plays are published by Samuel French, Inc., and Dawn is scheduled to premiere at the 2008 UndergroundZero Festival in Germany. Director Anne Kauffman, an Obie Award-winning founding member of The Civilians and a faculty member at NYU, has worked with numerous highly respected theater companies. Last year, she directed the NYTW presentation of the play Stunning at the Hop. Iraq Refugees ProjectWork-in-ProgressFriday, August 15 • 8 pm & Written and directed by Since the American invasion of Iraq, over 80,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed. Seventy percent of Iraqi children suffer from severe psychological trauma. And almost four million Iraqi civilians are now refugees. Behind these numbers and behind the flippant phrase “collateral damage” are individuals—real people with heart-wrenching stories. Writers/directors/actors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, perhaps best known for their gripping play The Exonerated based on interviews with wrongfully convicted death row inmates, believe that these stories need to be told. In Iraq Refugees Project, they again explore and expose injustice and battered lives, transforming interviews they conducted with Iraqi refugees in Jordan into an anthology of monologues. Together, these poignant, first-person narratives coalesce into powerful documentary theater that not only puts a human face on war, but helps address human rights issues and a humanitarian disaster that will impact our world for generations. Jessica Blank, who co-wrote and directed the play Liberty City, presented by New York Theatre Workshop at Dartmouth in 2007, has performed on stage, TV and in motion pictures, and is the author of two novels, one of which she is adapting for the screen. Her husband Erik Jensen has co-starred in over 20 feature films, appeared on TV and stage, and is working on a documentary movie. Their writing has been published in numerous journals, and their book on the making of The Exonerated—the 2002 New York Times Number One Play—was published in 2005. |
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