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EXCLAMATION POINT! 8: MASKS
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CODES OF CONDUCT
Featuring Trapped Inside a Low-fat Twinkie, by Silvia Graziano, and Sunday with Joy, by James Swindell . . . and more |
Exclamation Point 8!
MASKS
For our eighth
Exclamation Point!, Fort Point Theatre Channel presents a variety of new works on the
theme of "masks" from playwrights, puppeteers, filmmakers, videographers,
performance artists, poets, songwriters. . . .
CODES OF CONDUCT
Fort Point Theatre Channel is pleased to premiere the one-act plays Trapped
Inside a Low-fat Twinkie, by Silvia Graziano, and Sunday with Joy,
by James Swindell. Both plays will be presented at each performance of
Codes of Conduct.
SUNDAY WITH JOY
and more
Here’s the lineup:
About Face, excerpt from a play in progress by Holly Adams
The Esteemed il Dottore of Bologna Offers His Authoritative, Erudite, and Thoroughly Supercilious Meditation on the Mask, by Teatro delle Maschere (behindthemask.org, which will also display a selection of masks for show and sale)
Face Time, a play by R.D. Murphy
I. Zombi, Zombi, excerpt from a "document" movie by Jeremy Newman
The Masked Man, a song by Larry Plitt
Ms. Sassy France, a play by Mary Driscoll
Punctuare, a dance/new music work created by the dancers and musicians of bodydrama
Stick on Saint Mary's Beach, an animated poem by Cynthia Bargar and Nick Thorkelson
Superhero, a play by Mark Harvey Levine
That Fool’s Emperor: A Musical about Nothing, excerpt from a work in progress by Skip Schloming and Gene Hodsdon
A handmade film by Douglas Urbank with live accompaniment by Jorrit Dijkstra
November 12-14, 18-20, 2010
Plaza Black Box Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street, Boston
TRAPPED INSIDE A LOW-FAT TWINKIE
By Silvia Graziano
Directed by Dawn Simmons
Trapped Inside a Low-fat Twinkie tells the story of an on-again,
off-again relationship between a man and a woman--and an obsession with
low-fat Twinkies. The question is, which is healthier, the relationship
or the ingredients of a Twinkie?
Silvia Graziano is the co-artistic director and resident playwright of
Fort Point Theatre Channel. Her most recent play, The Romantic,
was produced in FPTC's "Gods, Monsters, and the Other" play festival.
Other works include the prose poems A Slightly Sick Feeling and
Pussy Willow, the short plays Trapped Inside a Low-fat Twinkie and
Mourning the Narcissist, a poem/video script Boys Running: A True Confession,
and the script for the short film, The Lumber Yard. Graziano coordinates our
Exclamation Point! series of new works readings and performances. She has a
BFA in dramatic writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
Dawn Simmons, co-artistic director of New Exhibition Room, will direct
Trapped Inside a Low-fat Twinkie. Simmons previously directed Graziano's one-act play,
The Romantic. She is director of programs for StageSource: The Greater
Boston Theatre Alliance.
By James Swindell
Directed by Dani Duggan
Sunday with Joy is a real language romp, a display of consummate word
craftsmanship as we follow Joy disregarding the rules of her marriage and trying
her hand at driving that relationship. This will the first full production for
the stage. Sunday with Joy received a reading by Main Street Theater at
the Ovations Night Club, November 2006, in Houston, Texas.
James Swindell worked throughout his life behind the scenes in technical roles
at many theaters. He was a lighting designer, sound designer, set designer,
stage manager, and house manager at such theaters as Main Street Theater and
Stages Theater in Houston, Texas, the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut,
and the Clarence Brown Theatre at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Besides
Sunday with Joy, he wrote poems and full-length plays. He also wrote two
opera librettos for composer Mark Warhol, co-founder of Fort Point Theatre
Channel and artistic director of Ensemble Warhol.
The director of Sunday With Joy will be Dani Duggan, veteran of the
Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland. She is artistic director of
Devanaughn Theatre, president of the executive council of the Massachusetts
Drama Guild, producing director of Shakespeare on the Rock in Plymouth, and
has worked with many international companies.
The Cast of Sunday With Joy: Christie Lee Gibson, Frances Idlebrook, Christine Power, Paul Shafer, and Robin Smith
The Cast of Trapped Inside a Low-fat Twinkie: Tim Hoover, Fedna Jacquet, Rory Kulz, Nick Thorkelson, Ally Tully, and Amy West
Crew: Sylvie Agudelo, Costume Designer; Deirdre Benson, Stage Manager; Sean Cote, Set Designer; Kurt Cole Eidsvig, Tech; Marc S. Miller, Co-producer; PJ Strachman, Lighting Designer; Daniel van Ackere, Tech; Mark Warhol, Co-producer; Heidi Zander, Scene Painter
An
opera
about the Marquis de Sade.
Hotel Cassiopeia,
Charles Mee's fantasy inspired by the life and work of
the master of assemblage art, Joseph Cornell, will
itself be an assemblage.
Ensemble Warhol, Contrapose Dance,
and Kelley Donovan & Dancers
in performance at the Roberts Studio
Theater in the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion, June 10, 11, 12, 2011.
The animated film Où est Fleuri Rose?