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After Picasso by Stephen Wrentmore
Tucson: February 19, 2015 at 6:30pm - Tucson Museum of Art
A conversation about the life and art of Pablo Picasso, told from the perspectives of two of his greatest loves: Dora Maar and Francoise Gilot.
Octagon by Kristiana Colón
Tucson: December 13, 2014 at 8:30pm - The Temple Lounge
Phoenix: December 14, 2014 at 7:00pm - Herberger Theatre Center, KAX
Against the backdrop of a last-minute poetry slam competition, eight young poets traverse the stage and the tightropes of their braided desires. With three minutes to sway the judges, they must decide which is more important: the points or the poetry, the privilege of free speech and expression or the celebrity that comes along. Octagon infuses theatre with poetry slam in a way that’s never been seen, ripping open the clichés of the open mic while asking the cost of the spectacle of ripping open our wounds.
Kristiana
Rae Colón is a Chicago-based poet, playwright, actor and educator. Also an Ensemble member at Teatro Luna, Ms.
Colon toured the United Kingdom for two months in 2013 with her collection of
poems, promised instruments,
published by Northwestern University Press. In the fall of 2012, she opened her
one-woman show, Cry Wolf, in Chicago
while her play, but I cd only whisper,
had its world premiere at London’s Arcola Theater. She appeared on Season 5 of
HBO’s Def Poetry Jam.
After Picasso by Stephen Wrentmore
Tucson: February 19, 2015 at 6:30pm - Tucson Museum of Art
A conversation about the life and art of Pablo Picasso, told from the perspectives of two of his greatest loves: Dora Maar and Francoise Gilot.
Octagon by Kristiana Colón
Tucson: December 13, 2014 at 8:30pm - The Temple Lounge
Phoenix: December 14, 2014 at 7:00pm - Herberger Theatre Center, KAX
*Winner of the 2014 National Latino Playwriting Award*
Against the backdrop of a last-minute poetry slam competition, eight young poets traverse the stage and the tightropes of their braided desires. With three minutes to sway the judges, they must decide which is more important: the points or the poetry, the privilege of free speech and expression or the celebrity that comes along. Octagon infuses theatre with poetry slam in a way that’s never been seen, ripping open the clichés of the open mic while asking the cost of the spectacle of ripping open our wounds.
Catapult by Natasha Smith
Tucson: November 22, 2014 at 8:00pm – The Temple Lounge
Phoenix: November 23, 2014 at 7:00pm – Herberger Theater Center, KAX Stage
Catapult poses Smith’s perspective about navigating the politics of campus life for Leslie, whose sense of self and security begin to unravel when her best friend’s boyfriend crosses a line. Trust between friends quickly evaporates as people and institutions scramble to deflect, protect or forget.
Since joining Arizona Theatre Company as the Artistic Intern in 2013, Natasha has had an active role in the literary and education departments. This summer, she joined the Summer on Stage team to teach playwriting to high school students. She graduated from Amherst College in 2011 with a dual degree in Theatre/Dance and English. Her thesis production, In Her Place, won the Denis Johnston Playwriting Award from Smith College. She has also worked with Horizon Theatre and the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.
Archipelago by Caridad Svich
Tucson: October 11, 2014 at 8:00pm – The Temple Lounge
Phoenix: October 12, 2014 at 7:00pm – Herberger Theater Center, KAX Stage
A work of linguistic beauty and eloquence, Archipelago introduces a transient world, both a part of our existence and somehow separate from it, that defies description in its quest to explore why, ultimately, we do what we do. In a place that may be here or might not exist, in an age that may be now or might be yet to come, Caridad Svich sculpts a tale of love, of time, of poetry, and of the imagination from which her characters construct, deconstruct, and reshape a world for an audience to absorb, to reflect, and reassemble.
A work of linguistic beauty and eloquence, Archipelago introduces a transient world, both a part of our existence and somehow separate from it, that defies description in its quest to explore why, ultimately, we do what we do. In a place that may be here or might not exist, in an age that may be now or might be yet to come, Caridad Svich sculpts a tale of love, of time, of poetry, and of the imagination from which her characters construct, deconstruct, and reshape a world for an audience to absorb, to reflect, and reassemble.
Playwright Caridad Svich has received the National Latino Playwriting Award twice. Other awards include the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize. Among her major works are Archipelago, 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable), Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Mans' Blues, and The House of the Spirits (based on the Isabel Allende novel). Her plays and translations have been produced across the US and abroad at diverse venues including Borderlands Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre, Mixed Blood, 7 Stages, 59E59, Repertorio Espanol, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Teatro Mori (Chile). She is alumna playwright of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review for Routledge, UK and Drama Editor of Asymptote literary journal. She is published by TCG, Smith & Kraus, Backstage, Playscripts, Broadway Play Publishing, Eyecorner Press, Manchester University Press, StageReads and more. Visit her at http://www.caridadsvich.com.
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Albatross written and conceived by Matthew Spangler and Benjamin Evett
Originally commissioned by Michael Seiden.
Saturday, April 12, 2014 @ The Temple Lounge, The Temple of Music and Art
9:30pm
Sunday, April 13, 2014 @ Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center
147 E. Adams St, Phoenix, AZ 85004
7:00pm
Albatross brings Samuel Taylor Coleridge's immortal poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to life
as a tour-de-force solo performance piece. It blends the vivid language of the
poem with original material that unveils the history of the fated Mariner and
his life on the high seas in the 1720s. The immortal Mariner is doomed for all
eternity to re-tell the harrowing tale of his tragic sea voyage to "those
who need to hear it". Complete with privateer battles, tempests, icebergs,
and the thoughtless killing of a majestic bird, the Mariner's tale leads him
and us into a mystical world of sin, expiation, horror and wonder. The play
explores the interconnectedness of all living things, and the necessity for us
to be mindful of our actions and their consequences.
Playwright
Matthew Spangler’s plays have been produced by theatres across the country and
internationally including Arizona Theatre Company, San Jose Repertory Theatre,
Cleveland Play House, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Liverpool Playhouse, the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Avignon Theatre Festival, among others. . He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.Phil in Theatre from
Trinity College in Dublin, and a B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern
University. Mr. Spangler is currently an
Associate Professor of Performance Studies at San Jose State University in
California.
Playwright and performer Benjamin Evett returns to
the ATC stage after appearing in Freud’s
Last Session and God of Carnage. Mr. Evett is the founding artistic director
of the Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston where he performed Hamlet, Coriolanus, Petruchio, Edmund, and
Caliban.
At the New Repertory Theatre, he performed in Cherry Docs (Danny), Opus
(Dorian), and Quills (Coulmier),
among others. He was a member of the
Resident Company at American Repertory Theater from 1993 to 2003, where he
performed in over 50 productions including Waiting
for Godot (Lucky), Phaedra
(Hippolyte), The Tempest (Ariel), The Bacchae (Pentheus), and Six Characters in Search of an Author
(The Son). He has also performed at
Huntington Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Hartford Stage, Missouri
Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Great Lakes Theater Festival,
Cleveland Play House, and others.
Internationally, he has performed at La Biennale di Venezia, the
Festival d’Automne in Paris, Taiwan’s National Theatre, and the Moscow Art
Theatre.
Saturday, March 8, 2014 @ The Temple Lounge, The Temple of Music and Art
9:30pm
Sunday, March 9, 2014 @ Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center
147 E. Adams St, Phoenix, AZ 85004
7:00pm
Katie and Craig are having a baby… with a surrogate… who lives in India. A month before the baby’s due date, Craig reluctantly travels to the subcontinent, where he meets Suraiya, their young, less-than-thrilled surrogate. As all three “parents” anxiously wait for the baby to be born, flights of fancy attack them from all sides, in the form of an unctuous Frenchman and a smart-mouthed fetus. A whimsical take on modern day colonialism.
Los Matadores by Silvia Gonzales S.
Saturday, December 7, 2013 @ The Temple Lounge, The Temple of Music and Art
9:30pm
Sunday, December 8, 2013 @ Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center
147 E. Adams St, Phoenix, AZ 85004
7:00pm
Finalist for ATC’s 2012 National Latino Playwriting Award
A broken, aging bullfighter buys a painting from a blind man and from the oils a flamenco dancer and guitar player emerge to sing and dance for him. A boarding house maid appears to be educated in the art of bullfighting and passes him her talents and the confidence to face the bull, but his success turns to grief when he discovers at whose expense he triumphed.
Spark by Caridad Svich
Saturday, October 12, 2013 @ The Temple Lounge, The Temple of Music and Art
9:00pm
Sunday, October 13, 2013 @ Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center
147 E. Adams St, Phoenix, AZ 85004
7:00pm
Co-Winner of ATC’s 2013 National
Latino Playwriting Award
Spark is a play about
three sisters living in the US, caught in the mess of a recent war’s aftermath.
It is about what happens when soldiers come home, when women of little economic
means must find a way to make do and carry on, and the strength, ultimately, of
family. A contemporary US story of faith, love, war, trauma, and a bit of
healing.
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