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2009-2010 Season
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ROMEO AND JULIETWilliam Shakespeare Directed by Steven Satta 10/29-11/7 Romeo and Juliet is a play about star-crossed lovers. The play is one of the most famous works by William Shakespeare. Lovers (Romeo and Juliet) are caught between two worlds, as their families feud to the death. Fights, witty lines, secret marriages, and untimely deaths --the play is unforgettable!
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VODKA, F-----ING, and TELEVISION ** |
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The Schooling of Bento Bonchev **
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THE POLAR TRUTH ** (A Workshop Production) by Yury Klavdiev Translated by John Freedman Directed By Joseph Ritsch 11/12-11/14 Several young people in a far northern Russian city have had their lives changed radically by exposure to HIV. Some have been driven out of society by prejudice; others have run from society out of despair, anger and confusion. But life goes on and they continue to experience desire, love, affection, jealousy, anger and hope. As these people explore the new limits and new possibilities of their lives, they begin realizing they are in the process of building a new society, one that has the potential to right many of the mistakes of the old world which has rejected them. An episodic, quick-shifting play that merges dialogues and confessional, inner monologues.
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TANYA-TANYA ** A country house belonging to Ivan Okhlobystin is always filled with guests, women and, as Chekhov might have said, five poods of love. The lives of six twenty- to forty-somethings intertwine romantically and emotionally in a way that keeps everyone's head spinning with champagne lightness. And yet, as flirtations, love affairs and breakups shake almost everyone in the group, an uncertain future for all looms increasingly large on the horizon. Perhaps one character admits just that when she gaily suggests they take the precaution of putting rubber plugs in the electrical outlets before an approaching storm arrives. A play of exquisite delicacy, wit, beauty and unblinking honesty. |
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I AM THE MACHINE GUNNER ** (additional event) by Yury Klavdiev Translated by John Freedman Directed by David M. White 12/3-12/5 In development since May of 2008, John Freedman's English translation of Yury Klavdiev's I AM THE MACHINE GUNNER transcends time, place and person. Poetic, vulgar, and violent, I AM THE MACHINE GUNNER portrays the struggle of a Russian gang member seeking the same honor in his own battles that his grandfather found fighting Germany on the Russian Front in World War II. This workshop production is developed by Generous Company and has been generously supported by the Center for International Theatre Development, Philip Arnoult Director
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LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY by John Guare Directed By Diane Sadak 3/5-3/11 Moving back and forth in time, the action of the play is a mosaic of short scenes, monologues and original songs, all blending together into a revealing and affecting study of the American Dream gone awry. The play moves on many levels. In one sense it is a murder mystery: a boy is found dead, and his mother is suspected of his killing. But, as the investigation of the crime proceeds, other themes emerge and combine with it. The boy's mother has come to New York to persuade her sister to come back to their home in Maine; the sister is killed in a bizarre accident and her sibling slips easily into her persona, moving into her apartment and taking over her job; and her son loses his country innocence and becomes involved in the often ugly street life of Greenwich Village. In the end all these various strands are drawn together into a shattering climax—a forceful, moving illumination of lives first betrayed and then destroyed by illusions which, inevitably, lie always behind comprehension and control.
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MARTIAL ARTS ** by Yury Klavdiev Translated by David M. White with Yury Urnov Directed by Stephen Nunns and Yury Urnov 4/15-4/20 Children did not make the world into which they are born. Nor are they always shielded by those whose responsibility it is to protect them. In this brief, violent play, a boy and girl of about 10 stand on the verge of having to answer for the sins of their elders, drug dealers whose visitors are addicts, thieves, thugs and a corrupt policeman. One day the boy comes home to find his parents murdered on the floor. He is joined by a neighbor girl, in whose company he seems to find the peace, equilibrium and understanding his parents never provided. But peace is not to be theirs. A policeman and his unsavory cohort break into the apartment looking for heroin left behind by the dead dealers. Instead, they find traces of the boy and girl who have taken up hiding in a closet. Since only the dead don’t bear witness, the boy’s and girl’s lives appear to be at an end. That is, until something like divine intervention steps in at the most unlikely of moments. But are the lives of these children charmed? And, if so, for how long?
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FROZEN IN TIME ** by Vyacheslav Durnenkov Translated by John Freedman Directed by Peter Wray 4/29-5/8 A paraphrasing of “Romeo and Juliet” in the sublime context of “middle Russia,” that is, in a small provincial city the likes of which there are thousands. The life here is meager and boring. Everyone has known everyone else for ages. Among them are two families, one which accepted the rules of the game of post-Soviet life, the other which continues to live in the past. But a boy and a girl from these vastly different families fell in love. Two businessmen appear and plan to turn the entire city into an “outdoor museum.” They invite the city’s inhabitants to dress in 19th-century garb and become exhibits in this museum. This proposal exacerbates a smoldering conflict between the two families and a war between clans erupts. |
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT DIRECTING
PROJECTS Chapstick Smells Like Fish- Written and Directed by Janet Jiacinto. 11/19-11/21
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