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Concord Players presents
Tom Dulak's hilarious...
Breaking Legs
Directed by John Alzapiedi
February 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 25 & 26, 2011
51 Walden St., Concord, MA
978-369-2990
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Rebecca Parris
Master Class
Saturday, January 29th
1-7pm, Spiegel Auditorium
CCAE, 42 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA
Cost: $135; Auditors: $45.
Each participant will get 20 minutes to present their material for review. Accompanist provided.
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Playwright Profile: Jonathan Potter was born in Bridgeport (CT), and grew up in New England. Aside from childhood productions of folk and fairy-tales in cooperation with neighborhood children, his first contact with theatre was in high school, where he acted in Shakespeare and Chekhov. He continued working as an actor in college, and briefly joined an independent group for summer stock. After graduate school at Harvard and a summer at the Stratford Institute he began teaching and directing at a variety of small secondary schools, ran a traveling Commedia del' Arte troupe, and eventually ended up in Maine, where he resides today. Along the way he began writing scripts for his students, community groups, and University players. Many of these have been performed locally, and several regionally. One was produced in New York City. Nine of his plays have been published.
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I've heard it said that a playwright is only as good as the audiences who have seen their work. I disagree, as there are many unpublished playwrights everywhere with a treasure chest full of wonderful plays! It is beneficial for playwrights to have their plays workshopped and viewed for feedback, and to gain first-hand knowledge of how their work is being received, and in just the first month of 2011, I have already been to or seen notices for at least five "New Works" Festivals. It is refreshing to know more and more theater companies are supporting these endeavors. If you see one of these Fests in your area, please consider stopping in. For the price of admission, you get an eclectic blend of theater, while simultaneously helping to continue the flow of new plays (short, one-act and full-length) into the limelight!
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New Releases
A new playwright to JAC, Olivia Arieti brings us a new spin on H.C. Andersen's "The Wild Swans". In Eliza and the Royal Swans, when Princess Eliza's mother dies, the king remarries, and the new queen is a cruel witch, who banishes the girl's brothers from the kingdom and turns them into wild swans. Fortunately, a very busy Fairy Godmother appears and tells Eliza how to break the evil spell. She must gather nettles and weave eleven shawls to put on her brothers' shoulders; during all this time she must not speak. As years pass, Eliza has become a beautiful maiden and Prince Comet falls in love at first sight. His happiness is spoiled by his suspicious Counsellor, who considers the girl a witch. The Prince reluctantly agrees to have her burnt as all witches are, but Eliza's brothers return in time and rescue her. This youth selection includes 1 young girl / 2 women / 1 man / 12 either in the cast. ISBN #1-60513-094-X; JAC #2010-0035 - This title is also available via Amazon.com.  Another new playwright to JAC, Jonathan Potter brings us a short play for two young people. The Test is set in the near future, when a single academic test will determine your life. Pam, 18, is waiting to take the test, which, when passed, will allow her to pursue a "Class One" career. She is joined by Zach, a rebellious former boyfriend. During their wait, Zach attempts to persuade her to run off with him instead of taking the test. Every attempt, including a huge financial bribe, is rejected. Ultimately Pam enters the test center. After a mental and emotional struggle, Zach follows. This youth selection includes 1 young woman / 1 young man in the cast. ISBN #1-60513-095-8; JAC #2010-0036 - This title is also available via Amazon.com.  Matt Fotis has his first JAC release now available - a play in twelve scenes, The Van Gogh Exhibit is "less about Van Gogh's paintings than what happens when his swirls are set in motion...The narrative itself takes the passenger seat as the idiosyncratic characters direct traffic... trying to work out where the shapes of marriage, sexuality, bus routes, politics and memories fit into one masterpiece." (Minneapolis Skyway News). Fourteen characters (portrayed with suggested doubling of actors) in various Mid-Western locales weave in and out of relationships close and in passing. A wonderful ensemble piece. ISBN 1-60513-093-1; JAC #2010-0034. This title is also available via Amazon.com.
 From Evan Guilford-Blake comes a touching full-length piece called Eighty-Two, a play about dealing with age, love of family and friends, and maintaining independence in old age. Duffy, an 82 year old ex-baseball player, lives in New York, and is unwilling to leave his memories and best friend of more than sixty years, Ben, now 78 and also a former ball player. Duffy's daughter, Molly, discovering he has a heart condition, tries to convince him to move to Los Angeles, to live with her and her family- an idea which, to her dismay, he resists. ISBN #1-60513-096-6; JAC #2010-0037. This title is also available via Amazon.com.
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Hartt and Real Art Ways Collaborate on Dance Performance
WEST HARTFORD, CT: The Hartt School Dance Division and Real Art Ways (RAW) collaborate to present a dance performance by Hartt students as part of Saya Woolfalk's RAW installation Institute of Empathy, which runs through March 20, 2011. The performance will be part of the creative cocktail hour on Thursday, March 17, 2011, which takes place from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Admission is $10, $5 for RAW members. Click for details. Visitors may view open dance rehearsals with Woolfalk and Hartt's dancers in the RAW galleries Sunday, February 13; and Sunday, March 13. Hartt dance graduate Jessica Kilpatrick choreographed the piece, which she will perform with current dance students Anna Massiero and Jillian Greenberg.
Woolfalk draws material a variety of visual sources. In the artist's own words, "I use art as a laboratory to catalogue and critique our socio-visual landscape. Combining performance, sculpture, painting, and video, my installations investigate and playfully re-imagine the representational systems that hierarchically shape our lives. My art is an experimental ground where I create alternative bodies, environments, and consciousnesses. A black, white and Japanese woman, my work is inspired by ethnographic, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory. My sketches are a notational system; from them, I make paintings that recombine texts, images, and objects. From the two-dimensional I move to the three-dimensional and create landscapes. Through performance and video I activate those landscapes and produce narrative." Click here for more information about Saya Woolfalk and her work.
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