PLAYWRIGHTS’ WEEK 2007
presented in partnership
September 26 -October 1
Meet the Writers
September 26 @ 8pm
Festival Readings
September 27 - October 1
South Asian Sampler:
October 1 @ 8pm
THE DAY THE BIRD FLU CAME by Jonathan Yukich |
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PISTACHIO STORIES by Laura Shamas |
VELOCITY by Daniel Macdonald |
RAISINS, NOT VIRGINS by Sharbari Ahmed |
SHE LIKE GIRLS by Chisa Hutchinson |
NOBODY by Richard Aellen |
CHILDREN AT PLAY by Jordan Seavey |
by Melinda Lopez |
Hosted by Catherine Coray. Meet the 2007 Playwrights' Week Playwrights! Hear the writers read excerpts from their work and stay afterwards to mingle with the playwrights at our opening night reception. |
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In this surreal piece, a young American soldier goes off to a war in the Middle East on what he believes will be a short detour on his route to college, made possible by the U.S. Army. Instead he finds himself in the midst of a complex occupation. His personal history of violence and the history of violence in the country he is fighting for and against collide as his life and the lives of his fellow soldiers are irrevocably changed. |
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Could a plague really come? Two unassuming health officials investigate reports of an outbreak in a small town. No one could have anticipated what they find. A wildly, comical, thinly veiled look at fear, anxiety and talking birds in America. |
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About a diverse group of friends who meet regularly to watch Al Jazeera and discuss the situation in the Middle East. When one of them receives an mysterious package of red pistachios from Syria, it triggers a series of events which threatens their friendships and sense of community. |
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A teenage girl dares to challenge the laws of physics by blowing her dad out the 73rd floor of his office tower and interviewing him as he falls. While Dot's 15 year old world is coming crashing down, she's bound and determined to take everyone else along for the ride - all in 6 seconds. |
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A tale of spiritual and political turmoil set against a backdrop of New York dating angst, this play traces the hilarious journey and jihad of a young American-Muslim as she traverses the minefields of identity and love. |
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Inspired by the 2003 murder of a lesbian teenager in Newark, NJ, She Like Girls is the story of two inner-city high school girls who fall in love in a dangerously homophobic climate. |
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Explores the lives and friendship of Bert Williams and George Walker, African-American entertainers who create blackface roles so rich and affecting that they can neither surpass nor escape them. Bert's signature song "Nobody" is recorded on cylinders that sell in the thousands, but the cost is high: In becoming somebody, he has become nobody.
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A tragic farce in which five friends [hopefully] survive the typical high school experience: algebra, fluctuating sexuality, eating disorders, groping teachers, guns, school bombings, nuclear fallout, and, most dangerous of all, love. |
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Stifled by a city in rapid decline, siblings Tommy, Mark and Annie don't have much to do but play video games and listen to music until one violent night changes everything. Their collective longing, frustrations and desires take on a haunting melody, as each offers up their own tragic verse. |
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Monday, October 1 @ 8pm Sarovar Banka's JETLAG —A mystery about an aspiring actress and two documentary filmmakers. Aasif Mandiv's THE HOUSE OF MR. ORANGE – After the death of his wife and detainment of his son to a U.S detention center, a sixty year old Pakistani man goes in search of the woman he once truly loved thirty years ago. Sonia Pabley's PAGING DR. PATEL, a struggling medical intern's latest page takes him on a wild journey into his future. Aladdin Ullah's THE HALAL BROTHERS —About two Bengali brothers who have a store in Harlem on the day Malcom X was assisinated. Kesav Wable's FOR FLOW, Dee and Kane are two MC’s from the borough of the Bronx searching for a way to climb out of the hard-knock lives they’ve been forced to lead. |
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