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Red Frogs & Other Plays book cover
"Trying to Look at Opera Through the Pillars of Theater" interview w/Randy Gener for CRITICAL STAGES
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"Margraff's Got the Greek Blues" 

(photo:  David Little-Smith)

THREE GRACES Recommended by
NY Theatre Review

"Poetic and imaginative... 

strikingly vivid and compelling"

~ Total Theater  

 

"Fascinating rhythms of Crete...jam-packed with action....wonderful music and a thoroughly Greek dramatic structure... creating the inner states of desire and revolt." ~NYTheatre.com

 

 Publishing  
Red Frogs & Other Plays book cover
RED FROGS & OTHER PLAYS from No Passport Press "Three astonishing, thrilling plays: Margraff is one of the US' most daring playwright-poets."
 Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon 

DEADLY SHEWOLF ASSASSIN AT ARMAGEDDON cd/book/manga published by Autonomedia, Inc.

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New Village Press launch of "Hidden Fires: PeaceWorks' Invocations as Zizekian Response to the Gujarat Massacres of 2002" for Acting Together anthology June 2011


forthcoming:  

2012 Skyhorse Publishing  launch of one of my earliest plays "The State of Gristle" for Bullying: Beyond the Schoolyard anthology edit. Magdalena Gomez     

   

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Newsletter
  Happy New Year!
CAE new album cover
photo by: JR Delia for our upcoming album
"Land of the Great Horses" 2012

from Ruth Margraff & Cafe Antarsia Ensemble 

Reflecting on a year of memories looking forward to seeing you somewhere along the road in the new year:
2011 performances: 
  • Feb 9 CAFÉ ANTARSIA ENSEMBLE at Chopin Theater (Chicago)  
  • Mar 6 No Passport Press panel at Nuyorican Poet's Café (NYC)
  • Apr 9-10 CAFE ANTARSIA duets at Archer Ballroom benefit and playing Django tunes with Lito Manlucu at Lincoln Perk Cafe (Chicago)
  • Apr 25 "Lay With the Lions" from WELLSPRING at Chicago Dramatists Cabaret/ Davenports' Piano Bar (Chicago)
THREE GRACES featuring Cafe Antarsia Ensemble (NYC)
THREE GRACES slideshow w/ a song by Cafe Antarsia Ensemble
July 20-23 THREE GRACES Greek/Ottoman opera premiere featuring CAE at Ice Factory Festival/3LD produced by Immigrants' Theatre Project with support from Laguardia Performing Arts Center (NYC)
  • July 28 CAFE ANTARSIA at Hollins University Studio Roanoke and Visiting Professor of Playwriting (Virginia)
  • Sept 12 CAFÉ ANTARSIA ENSEMBLE at Martyrs (Chicago)
  • Sept 23 CAFÉ ANTARSIA duets for Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago);
  • Nov 7 "As Mirror to My Hand" for Salonathon at the Beauty Bar (Chicago)
  • Dec 5 CAFÉ ANTARSIA at Kenny's Castaways (NYC)
  • Dec 15, 2011 - "Balcony of Two" from WELLSPRING directed by Christopher Marino, performed by Mark Winston and Louise Cloutier for Caffeine Theater at Steppenwolf Theatre Garage (Chicago) 

upcoming in 2012:

  • Dec 17-Jan 30, 2012 - Centraltrak Artist Residency UTDallas; writing a lot and playing music for some gallery openings; Jan 15 a workshop of THREE GRACES with director Raphael Parry of Shakespeare Dallas/Green Zone; at Centraltrak Gallery 800 Exposition Avenue (Dallas)
  • Feb 29, 2012 - Pieces from WELLSPRING presented in the Art Institute Ballroom for AWP book launch for No Passport Press, Innova/Autonomedia, New Village Press, etc. (Chicago)
  • May 2012 - writing a new play ANGER/FLY inspired by an Ionesco film with Trap Door Theater and director Kate Hendrickson (Chicago).
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What else shall we do?

Afloat in the full lake of love

Here to gather - the good, the true -

To refine our minds like fire

Deck ourselves with the signs of beauty

Cut loose senses from the moorings

Dark waters, lost thoughts, stirrings of life

Things standing shall fall

But the moving ever shall stay

All other forms, as yesterday, tomorrow, today    

We burn desiring what the heart desires

(adapted from Indian Mystic poetry)

with lakes of love,  

Ruthie