Mohonk Mountain Stage Company
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Greetings!
Welcome to the Holiday Season! And appropriately enough, our next play, Julia Cho's award-winning new play, The Language Archive,  is about love, language, and [mis]communication. Perfect for all of those office parties and traditional family gatherings! You might think that, surely, a linguistic scholar who can speak dozens of languages is an expert in a communication. But alas, in The Language Archive you will discover that George may be able to speak Esperanto, but he cannot communicate. Of the many paths of communication available to us, we learn, perhaps the hardest one to traverse is the language of love. This comedy is a penetrating play that will linger on and on, leaving you with many questions about your own language archives.  The Language Archive will will be our final offering in our 2011 season and we hope to see you there. We will take a break this winter and will not be performing our annual Encore Series in Winter 2012. But we will be back in the spring with more of our MMSC Magic to share. And at this joyous time of the year, all of the good folks at MMSC, want to wish you and yours the very best of the holiday season and the happiest of new years. Bob  
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Hudson Valley PremiereThe Language Archive by Julia Cho
Co-sponsored by Chronogram Magazine, Mayo Consulting, and Hudson Real American Whiskey
Winner of the 2010 Susan Blackburn Prize
George is a brilliant linguist, consumed with preserving and documenting dying languages. But at home, he cannot find the words that will preserve his disintegrating marriage. His archival assistant is mute with adoration for him; and his newest subjects, an elderly couple who are the last speakers of an obscure language, refuse to utter a word to one another.
Cho's magical prize-winning comedy, loaded with life's contradictions - love and loss, happiness and pain, endings and beginnings - asks whether love is a universal language or, like Esperanto, just a well-intentioned dream.
Directed by Christine Crawfis
Featuring
Rich Hack,
Zsuzsa Manna,
Douglas Woolley,
Molly Parker-Myers,
Janet Nurre,
Cate Olson, and
Jeffrey Battersby
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Cho says that the first impulse for The Language Archive was an obituary that mentioned how the last speaker of a certain language had passed away. It was the first obituary of that kind that Cho had seen. Soon afterward, she started reading books and articles about decaying languages. George was the first character that emerged. "What came was the voice of this person who cared so much about these languages that were dying and wanted so badly to save them."
The Language Archive
Perfect for MMSC & "Art for the Ears"
While languages dwindle or communication fails, Cho's terse language thrives. "I like empty space. I like silence. I like room on the page. I feel that what I love best is making an audience have to imagine things for themselves. I'm trying to leave room for someone to come meet me part of the way."
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About Us
Mohonk Mountain Stage Company has been taking audiences on extraordinary theatrical journeys since 1994. MMSC was formed in 1994 to perform works of strong literary merit for young and adult audiences. The Theatre for Young Audiences has appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., as well as at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. MMSC's unique Participation Format enables children not only to observe the action, but also to become a part of it. The Readers Theater Group has given over 750 performances of plays, prose and poetry throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley. In addition to performing plays and readings of works of literary merit. MMSC Publishing produces a literary journal, Vanguard Voices of the Hudson Valley and customized audio recordings.
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