This presentation of Love Kills is supported in part by the National Fund for New Musicals,
a program of National Alliance for Mustical Theatre - www.namt.org

A FREE public reading
presented in partnership with
Belarus Free Theatre
CHARONVILLE
by Nikolai Khalezin
Directed by Lisa Rothe
Original translation by Yuriy Koliada and Rory Mullarky
Dramaturgical and translation assistance byErik Ehn

In 1979, a 39-year old journalist named Ian McIntosh finds himself in a small town called Charonville and attends the funeral of a local man—the infamous mobster John Dillinger, who, contrary to legend, was not killed by the FBI, but lived his life out in this remote Midwestern town. Slowly Ian realizes that Charonville has been the refuge of many more legends who died under mysterious circumstances—including the King of Rock and Roll. And when Elvis disappears from town, Ian begins to discover the reasons so many of the famous “departed” ended up in Charonville.

About the Free Theatre of Belarus: “They’re bringing back the essential meaning of the theatre.” - Harold Pinter Banned in their native Belarus and renowned for staging covert, uncensored performances, the Belarus Free Theatre provides a rare voice of dissent in what has become known as Europe’s last dictatorship. They are a young and underground theatre troupe fighting for democracy and free expression. They have the support of many, including Sir Tom Stoppard, Mick Jagger, Harold Pinter, Mark Ravenhill, Diana Quick, Henry Goodman, Alan Rickman, Kim Cattrall, Tobiaz Menzies, Richard Wilson, and Andrea Riseborough. Even Steven Spielberg. The Belarus Free Theatre is under constant persecution by the regime in Minsk. The location of its performances are always kept secret – audience members are informed by text message and email. The recent Presidential decree regarding the Internet will really restrict their activity.

Here are two ways to donate to Belarus Free Theatre:

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Nikolai Khalezin’s participation is made possible by an
Independent Project Award from CEC ArtsLink.

A FREE public reading presented as part of
SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA
Offside
by Sergi Belbel
  translated by Marion Peter Holt
directed by Mallory Catlett

Prelude 2010
SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA 
Co-Presented by The Martin E. Segal Theater Center and The Institut Ramon Llull
Excerpts and Panel Discussion + Full Reading Series

PRELUDE  is a festival exploring the forefront of contemporary NYC theater and performance. Past years have featured over 20 short performances, readings, and open rehearsals with a focus on works-in-progress, as well as panels and informal networking opportunities.  It also looks beyond New York City with its international SPOTLIGHT series. After focusing on Japan, Argentina, Poland and Korea this year’s SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA will showcase the work of contemporary Catalan theater artists - Àngels Aymar, Sergi Belbel, Marta Buchaca and Esteve Soler. Catalonia, home to Barcelona, is a distinct region of Spain with it’s own language and cultural history.  With the generous support of The Institut Ramon Llull four new American translations have been commissioned which will be presented at the PRELUDE Festival. The SPOTLIGHT brings together playwrights in collaboration with New York City translators and directors in a cross cultural conversation around the production and development of new theatrical texts. 

Excerpts of the plays will be presented at the PRELUDE FESTIVAL
and followed by a Panel Discussion on October 1 @ 3pm at Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue ~ New York, NY

SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA  full reading series 
Sunday October 3 @ 7 pm
Girls Shouldn’t Play Soccer  by Marta Buchaca
translator Rowan Ricardo Phillips / director May Adrales
at New Georges (The Room 520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 326)
Monday October 4 @ 6:30 pm
Solavaya  by Àngels Aymar
translator Caridad Svich / director Hillary Spector
at Repertorio Español  (138 East 27th St)
Tuesday October 5 @ 7 pm
Against Progress  by Esteve Soler
translator Hillary Gardner / director Dan Safer
at La MaMa (1st Floor Theatre 74A East 4th St)

ALL SPOTLIGHT EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

A FREE public reading presented in partnership with
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Oedipus El Rey
by Luis Alfaro
  directed by Michael John Garcés

OEDIPUS EL REY is the recent recipient of the NNPN Continued Life Fund. Partnering with Magic Theatre in San Francisco and Boston Court in Los Angeles, Woolly is proud to be the last stop on the three theatre continued life track for this exciting new work.

THE TWO ROBERTS
by Migdalia Cruz
directed by Cándido Tirado

About Roberto Cofresí, a 19th Century pirate who was considered
the Robin Hood of Puerto Rico and Robert Johnson, a 20th Century Delta Blues master. Two men who supposedly sold their souls to the Devil, meet on an island betwixt and between,where 12 people—lovers, brothers & friends—help them find their true souls hidden at that place where the wreckage of an old schooner run aground meets some Mississippi jook joints.

100 PLANES
by Lila Rose Kaplan
directed by Lisa Rothe

Lieutenant Kay McClure, a hotshot pilot, meets her match in Major Anne Clarkson. As Anne pushes Kay harder and harder, questions arise. What exactly is Anne training Kay to do? David, an aspiring reporter and Kay’s lover, probes deeper and discovers Anne’s true motivations.  100 Planes examines the tug of war between love and ambition for female pilots in the Air Force.

MY SECRET LANGUAGE
OF WISHES
by Cori Thomas
directed by May Adrales

Jo, a lawyer, explores the meaning of unconditional love as she engages in a legal dispute between a young white woman and a black business woman over the custody of Rose, who is disabled and seventeen.

TWO POINT OH
by Jeffrey Jackson
directed by Michael Unger

Software mogul Elliot Leeds is dead. Or is he? After his tragic accident,
his grieving widow learns that his last, great invention was a software simulation of himself that now lives on in the systems of their high-tech home—and perhaps beyond.

PUSSY VALLEY
by Katori Hall
directed by Patricia McGregor

Down in the Dirty South four women are working hard for their money at the Pink Pony shake junt. Autumn Night, Mercedes, Get'Em Gidget, and Miss Mississippi dream of flying far from their gilded cage, but the recession is hitting the Mississippi Delta. Despite the town’s shrinking pockets, these women fight to take pole dancing to another level. To them pole dancing is an art form—the art of seduction, and the art of war.

5th ANNUAL PLAYWRIGHTS' WORKSHOP READINGS

THE AGE OF EXPLORATION by Greg Kotis - May 16
directed by Jackson Gay
In THE AGE OF EXPLORATION, two fathers vie for the heart
of their kids' elementary school teacher.

FAST COMPANY by Carla Ching - May 17
directed by Linsay Firman
Mable, H, Francis and Blue are a family of Chinese American grifters. When H tries to screw Blue out of the biggest con they've ever run, can Mable and Francis help her get back what's hers? Or will they all lose more than they could have possibly imagined? A play about game theory, cons, the art of winning and the power of magic.

USELESS by Saviana Stanescu - May 18
directed by José Zayas
USELESS uses heightened realism and dark humor to investigate the relationship between a married couple of Eastern European immigrants involved in organ trafficing and a disabled boy from a poor country, brought to the US for his kidney.

STARSTRUCK by Neena Beber - May 19

Twenty-five years after her girlhood accusation of rape caused him to flee the country, the woman in question has come to see the famous director to offer forgiveness — or is there something else she hopes to gain from their delayed encounter? 

SEXTET by Tommy Smith - May 20*
directed by Kip Fagan
A play set in three time periods and countries. In late 16th century Naples, the lunatic Prince Carlo Gesualdo plans a murderous slaughter of his wife that incites a musical discovery that influences the course of Western music. In late 19th century Moscow, the composer Piotr Tchaikiovsky marries a young student to cover up his love affair with his nephew. And in early 20th Century Vienna, the composer Arnold Schoenberg negotiates a friendship with the hot-head painter Richard Gerstl, who is sleeping with Schoenberg's wife.
(*The reading of Sextet is closed to the public)