Gone (w.t.), a new play by Katori Hall, was commissioned by Fluid Motion in 2007 as part of our Start the Story commissioning program. It is a contemporary retelling of the Greek tragedy "Antigone" set in post-Katrina New Orleans. In the Ninth Ward, Antwonette is unable to locate her brother's body (who has been swept away during Hurricane Katrina), while a group of Mexican workers struggle between being the saving grace of reconstruction and unwanted in the face of hostility from its residents & politicos. GONE delves into the link between the personal and the political, focusing on the stability of family ties during highly combustible political times.
WORKSHOP with FREE STAGED READINGS Directed by Tlaloc Rivas
With Felipe Bonilla, Debra Ann Byrd*, Juan Cardenas*, Ivan Lopez*, Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris*, Warner Miller*, Jorge Montenegro*, and Gerardo Rodriguez* (*Denotes AEA members) June 20, 2009 at 7pm
June 21, 2009 at 3pm @ Theatre Row Studios
410 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues FREE admission, including post-show talkbacks with the artists Gone was supported by a generous contribution from Start the Story donor Ayanna Lonian.
Cast
(Taco Man / Creole Creon)
(Stage Directions)
(Cora)
(Coco)
(Jaime)
(Antwonette)
(Tyresius)
(Jorge)
(Unk)
Production
(Stage Manager)
(Director)
Tlaloc Rivas was recently named one of 2008's People of the Year by NYTheatre.com and is renowned as one of this country's up-and-coming interpreters of classic and contemporary stage works. He has worked with illustrious companies such as El Teatro Campesino, The Public Theatre, Lark Play Development Center, Dallas Theater Center, Mark Taper Forum, INTAR, South Coast Rep, Long Wharf Theater, The Group Theatre, Trinity Rep, McCarter Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. A Usual Suspect for New York Theater Workshop and a member of NoPassport - a theater alliance devoted to cross-cultural action, advocacy & change - Tlaloc was honored with the 2001-2003 Career Development Program for Directors from the National Endowment for the Arts and Theatre Communications Group. He is the founding artistic director of Chicano TheaterWorks, where he produced, translated and directed over a dozen local, national & international works. Tlaloc graduated with honors from the UC Santa Cruz - where he received the Regents Presidential Award, Chancellor's Honors and Dean of the Arts Award. He received his MFA in Directing from the University of Washington's School of Drama.
Writers
Katori Hall is a playwright-performer hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. Her plays include Hoodoo Love, Remembrance, Hurt Village, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, The Mountaintop, The Hope Well, On the Chitlin’ Circuit, and Freedom Train. Her work has been developed and presented at the following venues: Theatre 503, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Women’s Project, World Financial Center, Lark Play Development Center, Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, American Repertory Theatre, and the Kennedy Center. Her awards include the 2009-10 Lark Play Development Center Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship, Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship, two Le Compte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center, Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, NYFA Fellowship, Royal Court Theatre Residency, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in African-American Studies and Creative Writing. She was awarded top departmental honors from the university’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS). In 2005, she graduated from the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University with a Master of Fine Arts in Acting. She recently graduated from the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting program. Visit www.katorihall.com.
WORKSHOP with FREE STAGED READINGS!!! June 20, 2009 at 7pm
June 21, 2009 at 3pm At Theatre Row Studios
410 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues Admission is FREE and all readings including post-show talkbacks with the artists. RSVP to info@fluidmotiontheaterfilm.org with the date and number of people attending.
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