PLAYWRIGHTS’ WEEK 2006
presented in partnership
September 13-18
8 Plays in 6 Days, including plays from the South Asian and
Middle Eastern Diasporas.
THE BRIDEGROOM OF BLOWING ROCK By Catherine Trieschmann |
dance of the holy ghosts: a play on memory By Marcus Gardley |
HAND, FOOT, ARM, AND FACE By Mat Smart |
LAYLA AND MAJNUN By Nastaran Ahmadi |
LOVE PERSON By Aditi Brennan Kapil |
NEIGHBOURHOOD UPSIDE DOWN By Nina Mitrovic |
VAIDEHI By Gautam Raja |
WILD MEN OF THE WOODS By Elisabeth Karlin |
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What is Playwrights Week?
Friday, September 15 @ 8pm
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Friday, September 15 @ 4pm |
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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. |
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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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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? |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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