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THE MASTER PLAYWRIGHTS' WEEK 2006 SCHEDULE

Wednesday, Sept 13 7pm - KICK-OFF EVENT
Meet the Festival Writer Panel and Reception

Come meet our Festival writers and hear excerpts of their work.
Facilitated by Kamilah Forbes, Artistic Director Hip-Hop Theatre Festival
Thursday, Sept 14

4pm - HAND, FOOT, ARM, AND FACE
By Mat Smart
Directed by Jeremy Cohen
with Francois Battiste, Alyssa Bresnahan, Susan Hunt, 
Ariel Shafir & Rutina Wesley 

When a young American woman runs away with her Iraqi fiancé in the months following 9/11, they confront racism, the objections of her well-meaning but needy mother, and a friendly but overly curious neighbor who may or may not be beating his daughter.

8pm - VAIDEHI (SOLD OUT)
By Gautam Raja

Directed by Gia Forakis

with Purva Bedi, Rajesh Bose, Sean Krishnan & Debargo Sanyal
VAIDEHI begins with a birth and ends with its conception.  A prisoner of societal expectations, Vaidehi struggles to fight the origin of her name (one of exemplary womanly and wifely virtue) to find intimacy and independence amongst the men that surround her.

Friday, Sept 15

4pm - dance of the holy ghosts: a play on memory
By Marcus Gardley
Directed by Daniel Beaty
with Pascale Armand, Chuck Cooper, Kibibi Dillon,
Harriet D. Foy, Iseah Johnson & Stephen Conrad Moore

Oscar, 72, isolated from family and friends, spends his days with his memories, reliving the joys and rewriting the mistakes. But when his estranged grandson arrives to take him to the funeral of Oscar's daughter, Oscar must confront the truth of his past.

8pm - THE BRIDEGROOM OF BLOWING ROCK
By Catherine Trieschmann
Directed by Victor Maog
with Jason Asprey, Jennifer Dundas, Adriana Gaviria,
Deirdre O'Connell,  Laura Heisler, John Douglas Thompson & Marty Zentz.
Also featuring music
by Brian Silvoy.
At the end of the Civil War in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, a town of split loyalties, a blind daughter is seduced by a Union Raider through his extraordinary storytelling abilities, much to the dismay of her staunchly Confederate mother.

Saturday, Sept 16

4pm - WILD MEN OF THE WOODS
By Elisabeth Karlin
Directed by Sturgis Warner
with Rodney Gardiner, Jesse Hooker, Bryant Mason, 
Nancy Rodriquez & Anne Thibault
In a brutal New York City winter, a tarnished golden boy who had it all and lost it, finds himself out on the fringe with some unlikely company. WILD MEN OF THE WOODS tells a story of survival, responsibility, great apes, and the eternal longing for warmth.

8pm - NEIGHBOURHOOD UPSIDE DOWN
By Nina Mitrovic
Directed by Michael Johnson-Chase
Assistant Directed by Josh Cohen
with Fred Burrell, Walter Brandes, Maggie Burke, 
William Franke, Erik Jensen,
Robert Lavelle, Natasha Piletich, Nathan Ramos, Wayne Schroder & Jessica Warner
In this series of vignettes, the various inhabitants of a very tall apartment building engage in micro-dramas until one person exits by way of the window, encountering fellow jumpers on the way down who are also searching for redemption.  In this upside down world, are they falling from the Tower of Babel?

Sunday, Sept 17

4pm - LAYLA AND MAJNUN
By Nastaran Ahmadi
Directed by Susanna Gellert
with Erin Buckley, Peter Macklin, Najla Said & David Sajadi
Layla, a young Iranian-American living in Southern California, cares for her speechless father in an empty apartment in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks.  Here, Layla reads de Tocqueville, wears a gas mask, and is visited by Majnun, a character from an Iranian folktale, while she struggles to identify a heritage that she has never truly known.  Can she be an American and an Iranian, or does she have to choose?
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Monday, Sept 18

7pm - LOVE PERSON (SOLD OUT)
By Aditi Brennan Kapil
Directed by John Eisner
with Eileen Dulen, Alok Tewari, Alexandria Wailes & 
Jennifer Dorr White

Through Sanskrit, American Sign Language, and English, two sisters and their partners search for human contact and for love. Is it possible for two languages to fall in love, or for love to survive without communication? And does sex really trump words?

Monday, Sept 18 9pm - POST-FESTIVAL MIXER
Hosted by the Indo-American Arts Council.  With a special award presentation to the 2006-07 Lark/IAAC Playwright-in-Residence, Kesav Wable
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Playwrights' Week is made possible in part through the National Endowment for the Arts and
Indo-American Arts Council
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Additionally, Lark's programming is generously supported by Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, American Theatre Wing, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (administered by Theatre Communications Group), The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, The Dramatists Guild Fund, The John Golden Fund, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, FONCA (Mexico Fund for Arts and Culture), The Greenwall Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Lucille Lortel Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State arts agency. The official beverage sponsor of Playwrights' Week is General Bilimoria Wines.

 

 

 
 

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