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October 1 - 21, 2020
We have a new mask maker in the area - Jean Minuchin is new to the area, and she'll be facilitating a mask-making workshop beginning October 24. Take a look at the image below for dates and times, more details in the workshop section. Register today and start thinking about the characters you can create.
Tomorrow night, Smith College Theatre is hosting Theater of War's Antigone in Ferguson. It's free, but you must register to attend.
The next issue will include events through October 28. Submit upcoming events via the link below or by emailing me before Tuesday at midnight. Any questions, comments or feedback? Email me at pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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MASK MAKING AND PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
Sat. Oct. 24 3-5pm / Tues. Oct. 27 7-9pm / Fri. Oct. 30 7-9pm
Learn More
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YOUR EVENT HERE
$5 per week for your poster and ticket link in top billing!
Email me to reserve your dates.
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THIS WEEK IN THEATRE NEWS:
from Howlround
Breaking New Post-dramatic Ground
by Jean Tarbox
From the article:
Nearly six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed various theatre adaptations on Zoom. But the medium has not proved ideal. Too often the results are talking heads that fail to establish connection with the viewer. These initial attempts seemed futile—nostalgic imitations of in-person theatre. However, Wesleyan University’s livestreamed performances of The Method Gun in early May assured me we were on the threshold of a new form of live theatre, an experiment that depends on the audience’s full participation.
Have you read an interesting article about theatre recently? Send it to me! pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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PERFORMANCES and COVID-19 RESOURCES
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Theatre of War presents two readings of Antigone in Ferguson.
Antigone in Ferguson is a groundbreaking project that fuses dramatic readings by acclaimed actors of Sophocles’ Antigone with live choral music performed by a diverse choir, from St. Louis, Missouri and New York City culminating in powerful, healing discussions about racialized violence, police brutality, systemic oppression, gender-based violence, health inequality, and social justice. The project was conceived in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014, through a collaboration between Theater of War Productions and community members from Ferguson, MO, and premiered at Normandy High School, Michael Brown’s alma mater, in September of 2016, and has since toured the country and the world.
In light of the uprising and protests catalyzed by the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Dion Johnson, and many others; and the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on black and brown communities, Antigone in Ferguson aims to generate dialogue, consciousness, compassion, outrage, understanding, and positive action at this critical moment.
Translated and directed, and facilitated by Bryan Doerries
Music composed and conducted by Dr. Philip Woodmore
Co-facilitated by De-Andrea Blaylock Johnson
Featuring performances by Tracie Thoms, Jason Isaacs, De-Rance Blaylock, Duane Foster, Willie Woodmore, Nyasha Hatendi, Marjolaine Goldsmith, Jumaane Williams, and The Antigone in Ferguson Choir.
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Antigone in Ferguson
October 2, 2020
5:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
This event is hosted by Harvard University, Scripps College, Duke University, Georgetown University, Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics, Royden B. Davis Performing Arts Center, Pomona College, Smith College, The Jandon Center for Community Engagement, Clarmont McKenna College, Emory University, and University of Cincinnati, and is open to students and the public.
RSVP: aifoctober2.eventbrite.com |
Second performance:
Antigone in Ferguson
October 17, 2020
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
This special presentation of Antigone in Ferguson will foreground the perspectives of people in Baltimore, Maryland whose lives have been impacted by police brutality, community violence, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Co-presented by Theater of War Productions, the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and the Johns Hopkins Program in Arts, Humanities & Health, in partnership with the American Society for Bioethics + Humanities.
RSVP: aifbaltimore.eventbrite.com |
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About the symposium:
Two Public Events
Free. Open to all. Pre-registration not required.
Symposium Events
Free. Open to women and nonbinary people. Pre-registration required.
Click here for more information and to register.
WORKSHOP - CWLCA Story Circle
Workshop facilitated by JuPong Lin, Program Director, MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College.
Thursday, October 1, 12 - 1:30 p.m. (ET). |
WORKSHOP - New Fables for a New World
Workshop facilitated by Dr. Terry Jenoure, Interdisciplinary Artist.
Thursday, October 8, 10 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. (ET) and Thursday, October 15, 1 - 3:15 p.m. (ET). |
PANEL - Creative Climate: Inspiration and Activation
Panel Moderated by Dee Boyle-Clapp, Director, Arts Extension Service, UMass.
Panelists: Emmalie Dropkin, Extinction Rebellion; Anais Reyes, Climate Museum; and Raquel de Anda, People’s Climate March.
Thursday, October 8, 12 - 1:30 p.m. (ET). |
PANEL - Climate Change and Communities of Color: How Artists are Responding
Panel Moderated by Hind Mari, Director, Women of Color Leadership Network, UMass.
Panelists: Dr. Diana Alvarez, Artist Scholar; Naya (Chelvanya) Gabriel, Artist; and Erika Slocumb, Artist.
Thursday, October 15, 3 - 4:30 p.m. (ET). |
Click here for more information and to register.
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From the New England New Play Alliance:
Virtual Theatre and Podcasts
Barrington Stage presents
a virtual reading of
Eleanor
by Mark St. Germain
October 3-4
Eleanor brings to life Eleanor Roosevelt, the most influential First Lady the world has ever seen. From her “Ugly Duckling” upbringing to her unorthodox marriage to Franklin, Eleanor puts her controversial life, loves and passions on the stage.
Tickets: $15.
"The heart of the matter" is revealed in Today (Back in the Day vs. Some Day), a ten minute play about racial peace written and directed by New England Playwright Cliff Blake. This will be presented along with four other short black plays. Tickets: $15 suggested donation.
Co-created, written and performed by Kesiah Bascom, Christa Brown, Naychelle Gandia, Maritza Ivette, and Massda Jones, Hair Tales tells the stories of five black women and the complex relationships they have with their hair. Join us as we explore issues surrounding identity, the KINKS of self-acceptance, and how to embrace the CROWNS that we are given as black women. Streaming now.
The Bechdel Group presents
a reading of
The First Sister Trip
by Shoshannah Boray
September 29
Three sisters are stuck on a long flight with their mother's ashes in an urn. They've been changing alliances, keeping secrets, and trading insults among the three of them for more than 50 years. The First Sister Trip is about the ways we love and understand one another. It asks if it is possible to put aside assumptions and differences to care for one another. Register here.
Huntington Theatre Company presents
Dream Boston
now-October 28
Dream Boston is a series of free short audio plays that asks local playwrights to imagine favorite locations, landmarks, and their friends in a future Boston, when we can once again meet and connect in our city. New performances are released each Wednesday.
The View from MemChurch
by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro
directed by Caley Chase
Friends reunite in Harvard Yard on Commencement Day, May 25, 2025. Streaming September 30.
Virtual Attendance
by Miranda ADEkoje
directed by Pascale Florestal
Two white women in their 20s are on their way to an exercise class in a gentrified Nubian Square. Streaming October 7.
feeling now
by J. Sebastián Alberdi
directed by Caley Chase
Friends decide whether to part for the night after dancing at Machine, right outside Fenway Park on August 23, 2023. Streaming October 14.
Echoes
by Patrick Gabridge
directed by Rosalind Bevan
Friends make a late-night visit to the Old State House on the anniversary of the Boston Massacre on March 5, 2025. Streaming October 21.
The Moment Before the Lights Went Out on the Rothkos
by John Kuntz
directed by Rebecca Bradshaw
Museum visitors encounter two Rothko paintings and discover the mystery of each other at the Harvard Art Museums on January 22, 2022. Streaming October 28.
To watch previous episodes:
https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/season/upcoming/dream-boston/
Boston Podcast Players presents
Deal Me Out
by MJ Halberstadt
It's the story of a longstanding board game group of friends falling apart due to internal dislikes coming to a head in the aftermath of the 2016 elections. Co-host Ethan Warren joins us as MJ talks about site specific plays, knitting, the crucial different between a comma and a semicolon, Ranked Choice Voting, and board games. Stream the podcast.
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Academy of Music Theatre and NEPM
Valley Voices Story Slam - Nailed It!
October 8 at 7:30 PM
Online - Virtual Performance
Valley Voices Story Slam-Nailed it! taking place on October 8th will now be fully virtual. Storytellers will be live-streamed from our beloved stage at The Academy directly to your favorite nook at home. Get ready to sit back, enjoy the show and vote in real time for your favorite storyteller!
A live-streaming link and voting info will be sent the ahead of the event.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/valley-voices-story-slam-nailed-it-tickets-88029646041?_eboga=610526108.1479232961
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| UMass Theater announces a slate of digital projects for Fall 2020 |
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Launches Oct. 9
When The Soul Looks Out: Selections from Dr. Yusef Lateef’s Creative Writing
Oct. 29 &31 at 7:30, Oct. 30 at Midnight:
COVEN-19, Or, Magicks for Unprecedented Times
Nov. 12, 15, & 19 at 7:30 p.m.:
Visionary Futures: Science Fiction Theatre for Social Justice Movements
Dec. 1, 2, & 3 at 7:30 p.m.:
Café Subterrain
Launch date this winter:
Pandemic Podcast
All events free, check our 2020-2021 Season page for registration information as each production nears!
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This semester, our venue is a space online instead of a stage. We invite you to join us as we fuse theatrical creativity with modern technology to safely reach the farthest corners of our community.
We look forward to bringing theater to you in new ways, whether it's the lesser-known literary side of a jazz giant, using science fiction conventions to dream a better future into existence, telling stories about current issues, or visiting the coolest Zoom rooms ever as artists evoke magic to incite change or empower us all to perform acts of resistance.
All events are free of charge (although we gratefully accept donations from those who are able to give).
When The Soul Looks Out: Selections from Dr. Yusef Lateef’s Creative Writing
Curated and directed by Priscilla MarÃa Page
Dr. Yusuf Lateef is a towering figure in jazz, a deeply spiritual and philosophical man whose recordings and teachings have left a lasting imprint in the world of music. We are proud to be a part of the Centennial Celebration of Yusef Lateef, coordinated by Glenn Siegel as part of the Magic Triangle Series out of the UMass Fine Arts Center. To honor Dr. Lateef’s legacy, Dr. Page has curated a filmed presentation of his writings, Midnight in the Garden of Love, Spheres, and Another Avenue, performed by Five College and UMass Theater alumni, faculty, and students with guest artists Miles Griffith, Mary LaRose, and Fay Victor.
Presented by the UMass Fine Arts Center’s Magic Triangle Series and UMass Theater.
When the Soul Looks Out will premiere online on Oct. 9 and will remain accessible to viewers afterward. Visit the Fine Arts Center Box Office for information on this curated reading, as well as the other presentations that are part of Dr. Lateef's Centennial Celebration.
COVEN-19, or, Magicks for Unprecedented Times
Produced by Maegan Clearwood, Percival Hornak, and Helen Rahman
2020 is on fire, and more than ever, we are being called upon to own our individual and collective powers, make meaning out of utter chaos, and manifest tangible, seismic change. In late October, when the veil between our world and the other is at its very thinnest, our Coven will perform a live, remote ritual for the community that addresses the grief and pain we are all experiencing — but also the potential for transformation in these strange times. The time is ripe for magick-making: join us.
Presented live online Oct. 29 and 31 at 7:30 pm and Oct. 30 at Midnight.
Visionary Futures: Science Fiction Theatre for Social Justice Movements
Conceived and directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden
This project takes its inspiration from the Octavia’s Brood anthology, which explores the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. We are commissioning three professional playwrights to each write a 30-minute play of visionary fiction that confronts urgent issues of our time. Each writer will be paired with an activist whose work intersects with the play's subject matter. These writer/activist teams will collaborate to create work that is visionary in its approach while also grounded in contemporary activist thought.
The plays, written to be performed digitally, will be in conversation with each other and will present three different visions of future worlds. Join us for staged readings of excerpts in the fall, with full productions during the spring semester.
Presented live online: Play 1 on Nov. 12 at 7:30; Play 2 on Nov. 15 at 7:30, Play 3 on Nov. 19 at 7:30 pm, play titles to be announced
Café Subterrain
Devised and directed by Rudy Ramirez, with coordinator Yao Chen
Immersive theater works by placing its audience amid the action; we’re taking this concept remote. Café Subterrain invites audience members to gather in a digital café where they’ll journey through virtual rooms to meet resistance agents from across time and space who will share their stories and empower audience members to commit small acts of change in their home communities. The idea: to give comfort and hope that the world can emerge from hardship to a better place, and that the struggle can feel like celebration.
Presented live online: Dec. 1, 2 & 3 at 7:30 p.m. A second iteration of this production is planned for spring, dates to be announced.
Pandemic Podcast
Conceived and produced by Bianca Dillard
What are the stories behind the staggering numbers? Theater is about storytelling, and this podcast will draw on theater to tell the story of this pandemic from a multiplicity of perspectives, interviewing experts and folks with first-hand experience of the disease, whom we might not otherwise encounter in our isolation. Together, a team of interviewers, writers and sound design students and faculty mentors will look at topics such as how the pandemic is disproportionately adversely affecting populations of color; how mask wearing has become a polarizing political issue; and what healthcare workers are experiencing.
Look for this series to be posted online this winter. |
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