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PLAYWRIGHTS’ WEEK 2006
presented in partnership
September 13-18
8 Plays in 6 Days, including plays from the South Asian and
Middle Eastern Diasporas. |
U.S. / MEXICO PLAYWRIGHT EXCHANGE
presented in collaboration with
October 2 - 12
The Lark hosted 5 Mexican playwrights in New York City for a ten-day
residency as part of an ongoing exchange between the U.S. and Mexico.
The residency culminated in a special evening entitled:
THE WORD EXCHANGE:
EXCERPTS OF NEW PLAYS BY MÉXICAN AND U.S. WRITERS
Thursday, October 12 @ Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center
For more information click here |
Public Reading
BUCHAREST CALLING
By Peca Stefan
Directed by Victor Maog
Dramaturgy by Tanya Barfield
With:
Jeff Biehl,
Michael Crane,
Keira Naughton,
Natalia Payne
and
Tommy Schrider
Stage Manager, Joshua Cohen
15 years after the fall of communism in Romania, young people in Bucharest struggle to define their identities and move on with their lives without the burden of the past.
Mini
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November 2, 2006 at 7pm |
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In partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute |
Public Reading
POLAROID
By Jeroen Van Den Berg
Directed by John Clinton Eisner
With: Mary Bacon, Brian Dykstra, William Franke, Sanjiv Jhaveri,
Hoon Lee, Greg Skura and John Thomas Waite
Stage Manager, Jack McDowell
Written by one of the leading playwrights in the Netherlands, POLAROID investigates the lives of two men – struggling singer-songwriter Peter Draaijer and businessman Hans Forthman. When events cause their lives to intersect, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish fiction
from reality.
As part of our ongoing relationship with the Dutch Cultural Institute.
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Public Reading
YELLOW FACE
By David Henry Hwang
directed by Leigh Silverman
project advisor, Oskar Eustis
With: Brian Dykstra, Jordan Gelber, Julienne Kim, Kathryn Layng,
Hoon Lee
and Alan Muraoka
Stage Manager, Joshua Cohen
A biting and funny new play about race and identity in America by Tony Award-winner David Henry Hwang will have its world premiere as the final production of the
Taper's 40th Season. Hwang writes himself into the middle of his play, which is launched with the backstage revelations of an earlier play he had written that flopped infamously on Broadway. It appears that a white actor had been unknowingly cast in the role of an Asian, which is especially embarrassing for Hwang who had led the Asian American uproar when a Welsh actor was cast as a Eurasian in the 1991 Broadway
opening of Miss Saigon.
After development at the Lark, Yellow Face was produced at Center Theatre Group and will be produced by The Public Theater in 2007-08.
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Public Reading
THE DANGER OF BLEEDING BROWN
a queer disco-tragedy with drag numbers and semi-occasional levity
By Enrique Urueta
Directed by Mary Guzman
With: Davina Cohen, William Franke, Sam Guncler, Ephraim Lopez
and Al D. Rodriguez
In this new play by emerging Bay Area playwright, Enrique Urueta, Marco, a
disco-loving queer club-kid, becomes involved with his white
film professor. His
internal racism tests the limits of the relationship and hurls them each
toward devastating ends.
"DANGER OF BLEEDING BROWN traces the tenuous relationship between marginalized individuals and an uncaring society with honesty, rigor, and heart. This play – about power, politics, sexual identity and shame – is gritty, messy, challenging and courageous. It seems to angrily and vehemently challenge even the possibility of inclusiveness, of justice, of enduring love, but so artfully, and through such beautifully described pain, that it breaks my heart."
-John Clinton Eisner, Producing Director
See enrique's mention at playbill.com, click here!
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Public Reading
BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO
By Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
With: Sulome Anderson, Hoon Lee, Tom Ligon, Ryan King,
Laith Nakli
and Waleed F. Zuaiter
Stage Manager, Angela Allen
Two American soldiers, a talking tiger and an Iraqi translator roam the doomed streets of Baghdad in this darkly comedic drama set against the backdrop of the Iraq War. The latest from South Asian author Rajiv Joseph (author of All This Intimacy and Huck & Holden), Bengal Tiger showcases a rare gift for blending myth,
humor and action.
BENGAL TIGER was further developed as a
BareBones
® production at the Lark, April 13 - 21, and at Queens Theatre in the Park, April 26 - 29.
Funded in part by the Greenwall Foundation.
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Unfinished Wilson Play
By Tanya Barfield
Directed by Leigh Silverman
With: Josh Adler, Brian J. Carter, Christian Conn, Colman Domingo,
Brian Dykstra, William Franke, Quentin Maré, John McAdams,
Cody Nickell
and April Yvette Thompson
Stage Manager, Andrea Jess Berkey
This new play, co-commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum and the Lark/NYSCA Individual Artists Grant, is about an African-American woman working in the White House during
Wilson's Administration.
This play was a co-commission between Center Theatre Group and the Lark Play Development Center through an Individual Arts Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
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Public Reading
SPINOZA
By Colin Greer
Directed by John Clinton Eisner
With: Matthew Boston, Michael Chernus, Kathryn Layng,
Ned Massey
and Natalia Payne
Stage Manager, Angela Allen
SPINOZA is a psychological journey into the mind of this 17th-century leading philosopher. When ex-communicated from the synagogue for his rebellious beliefs, he finds himself caught in a web of conflicted loyalties as he struggles to hold on to his fiancée, his trade (as a lens crafter), and his sanity. Lark Studio.
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Public Reading
terrible virtue
By Jessica Litwak
Directed by Daniella Topol
With: Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Jessma Evans, Kathryn Grody, Christa Hinkley,
Mikel Sarah Lambert and Karen Young
Stage Manager, Jennifer G. Birge
TERRIBLE VIRTUE is a dynamic story centered around the reproductive rights
battle where an ensemble of five women depict countless historical characters
including Horatio Storer, Emma Goldman, Jane Roe, and Margaret Sanger, among
others. These figures serve as a historical backdrop for a contemporary tale
that flares up in one family's home when their teenage daughter becomes
pregnant. What results is a dramatic and theatrical ride through the
reproductive rights battleground. Lark Studio.
Developed in partnership with the Culture Project.
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Public Reading
THE GOOD NEGRO
By Tracey Scott Wilson
Directed by Liesl Tommy
Three men and their families from an African-American church community are at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement in 1962 Alabama. Fighting their human weaknesses, the men strive against the government and each other in hopes of leading their community into the age of freedom.
Developed in partnership with the Public Theater.
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BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO
By Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli**
With: Hend Ayoub*, Joseph Kamal*, Ryan King*, Tom Ligon*, Leroy McClain*,
Sharone Sayegh and Alok Tewari*
Stage Manager, Andrea Berkey*
American soldiers, an Iraqi translator, and a tiger roam the doomed streets of Baghdad in this darkly, comedic drama set against the backdrop of the Iraq War. The latest from Rajiv Joseph (author of All This Intimacy and Huck & Holden), Bengal Tiger showcases a rare gift for blending myth, humor and action.
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April 13 - 14 & 16 - 21 at 8pm
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For Culture Pass - Eye on Asian American Arts info
Funded in part by The Greenwall Foundation.
*Following the performances at the Lark, BENGAL TIGER was performed at Queens Theatre in the Park from April 26 - 29. Please visit www.queenstheatre.org/studio.html for more information.
Equity Approved Showcase
*Actors and stage manager appear coutesy of Actors' Equity Association
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Lark’s Romanian Exchange continues…
a staged reading of
amelia breathes deeply
by Alina Nelega
directed by John Clinton Eisner
translated by Kelly Stuart
featuring Lynn Cohen
This play follows one woman's life-long encounters with cruelty and deprivation under communism and how she endures against all oddsto survive. Against the backdrop of modern Romanian history, Amelia recounts the catalogue of her losses, from her body which she traded to the soldiers for scraps of food to her beloved dancer-brother who abandoned her for Paris. Throughout, she has held onto something she learned from her mother: to keep breathing.
There was also be a short excerpt, in Romanian, performed by
leading Romanian actress Dorina Lazăr. Followed by a panel discussion with the artists called How Plays Feel Different in Different Language
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 7pm
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Playwrights' Workshop Fellows Readings
Every year, a handful of writers develop new plays in the Lark’s
Playwright’s Workshop program, led by Arthur Kopit. For the first time this year,
the Lark presented this raw, in-progress work.
box americana (a wal-mart fantasia) by jason grote — May 11 (at 4pm)
directed by jackson gay
This play follows Kelly, a perky and passionate cheerleader for the Wal-Mart ideology and Danae, a devoted mother escaping a violent, impoverished past, as they seek the Promised Land of retail abundance while Sam Walton, a spirit of late capitalism, haunts the epicenter of Sprawlville, USA.
substitution by anton dudley — May 14
directed by anton dudley
In the aftermath of a boat accident that claims the lives of an entire high school class, a grieving mother and a substitute teacher form a peculiar bond over the one thing they have in common: the love for a dead child.
the road weeps, the well runs dry by marcus gardley —May 15
directed by leah gardiner
Surviving centuries of slavery, brutality, and ‘the trail of tears’ a community of Seminoles (Black Native Americans) incorporate the first all black town in Wewoka, Oklahoma; but the very foundations of the town are put to the test when the new religion and the old way come head to head.
smudge by rachel axler —May 16
directed by shelley butler
When a young couple's first-born is more monster than baby, it forces them to question what constitutes a life. A very, very, very dark comedy.
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May 11 at 4pm
May
14 - 16 at 7pm
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