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Dramaturgy News
Annie Jin Wang ’20 (Dramaturgy) will be the dramaturg for Flower Drum Song with book by Professor David Henry Hwang (Faculty). Directed by Lily Tung Crystal, with music direction by Amanda Ku, and choreography by Alex Hsu, the production will run from April 27 to May 12 at the Palo Alto Players in California. Flower Drum Song tells the story of Mei-Li who flees Mao's communist China after the murder of her father and finds herself in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Alumnus Scott Ebersold '15 to direct and alumna Anika Chapin '14 to dramaturg a staged reading of The Peculiar Tale of the Prince of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians. When Prince Florizel learns that his father the King of Bohemia is dead, he seeks to escape the throne. He and his chaperone Colonel Geraldine are invited to join a secret society — The Suicide Club. Club members play a deadly card game nightly with higher stakes than the Prince has ever known. Realizing the deck is stacked against them, the Prince and Geraldine become inextricably linked…
In This Hope: A Pericles Project, a new play dramaturged by alumna Hannah Hessel Ratner ’11 and directed by Anna Brenner '11, is part play and part ritual. Led by an all-female/multi-cultural ensemble, the production mines a well known story to create something completely in the present. The those forced to flee a homeland and journey over the sea, experiencing great loss and sacrifice only to discover love and build a new life has been passed on since antiquity and still resonates to this day.
A group of Alumni are collaborating on Re-Reading Oppression: 3 one-act plays, a mini festival, which takes place next Monday, April 30th at 5:30pm at The Martin E. Segal Center. The evening consists of three readings of one act plays that address oppression, discrimination, and abuse portrayed by three significant playwrights from the U.S., England and Egypt, in the second half of the last century. All the plays are directed by graduates from the Directing Concentracion.
Zach Marlin 19 is a New York-based dramaturg and writer. Born and raised in Western Pennsylvania, Zach received his B.A. in Theater Arts and History from Brandeis University.
Behind the Scenes: A series of articles featuring theatre makers from the other side of the stage
Alum Marce Walsh '90 discusses their journey as an artist and creator.
Alum Nancy Vitale '07 discusses their journey as an artist and creator.