HOSTING A Festival of Plays celebrating Women's History Month: MAY 8TH, WAH Center, Williamsburg, NYC

The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center’s
WAH Theater of the Performing Arts, and
THE BROOKLYN PLAYWRIGHTS COLLECTIVE PRESENT:
THE WOMAN ARTIST’S JOURNEY

TICKETS AT WAH CENTER BOX OFFICE: $10
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A Festival of plays for the
WOMAN FORWARD Art Exhibition
3 Weekends, 6 Performances!
Friday and Saturday,
May 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 and 23, 2009

Williamsburg Art and Historical Center
135 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 11211

THE WOMAN ARTIST’S JOURNEY
PROGRAM

Stage Manager: Teresa Violet Cajigas

-Friday May 8, HOSTED BY GUEST POET CAROL NOVACK
-Friday, May 9th, 15 and Saturday May 16th HOSTED BY GUEST POET MARGUERITE MARIA RIVAS

8PM Curtain

A Visit with Grandma
By Philip Kaplan, Directed by Stephanie Walter
Great Artists and their Family Encounters

Draw Me a Paper. By Alaina Hammond. Directed by Peter Dizozza.
A romantic contest comes to an end, for now.

NIN Unexpurgated, By Allan Lefcowitz. Directed by Peter Dizozza.
Two Greenwich Village scenes from Allan’s Anais Nin Play

A Photo Play
By Maria Micheles. Directed by Marcus Haupt..
Dialogue and Body language at a Diane Arbus nudist colony photo session

Homespun Webs. By C.J. Ehrlich. Directed by Lori Kee.
Imagining Louise Bourgeois

Hosted by the Evening’s Guest Poet!
Ballroom dancing music by The Steppe Dogges.

Institutional Bio:

Brooklyn Playwrights Collective is a project of local playwrights collaborating through workshops, proposals, and readings to aid each other in the playwriting process from writing, to editing and production. In addition to their annual festival last season, they produced a series of one act readings at the Brecht Forum, received a National Foundation for Jewish Culture New Works Grant for Les Hunter’s To the Orchard, and work-shopped Marcy Wallabout’s Resistable Rise of Fatlinda Paloka, which received rave reviews after opening at Theatre for the New City.

Each year, BPC produces a festival of short one act plays by their members which responds to a particular theater practitioner. The festival has worked for the last three years in an alphabetical order Cruel and Unusual: Works Inspired by Antonin Artaud, Beyond Brecht, and Confronting Chekhov (2008)

Their Cruel and Unusual: Works Inspired by Antonin Artaud prompted the NYTheatre.com reviewer to conclude by saying, “Best of all, perhaps, is the conception of the evening itself—a participatory celebration/conversation between theatre artists and ordinary folks in the audience. Too many ‘festivals’ of one-act plays seem to have no raison d'être beyond serving as a hopeful showcase of talent to producers, agents, and other show-biz types who probably aren't there anyway; I love that Cruel and Unusual is an end unto itself, giving all who venture into the room a chance to experience some art of the raw and untried variety because that's an exciting, fun, and interesting thing to do.”

The WAH Theater hosts visiting troupes from all over the world, and has originated productions of musical plays by Peter Dizozza, many connected with WAH Center art exhibits, including Prepare to Meet Your Maker (Apocalypse 1999), The Last Dodo (2000), The Eleventh Hour (2001), The Golf Wars (The World Peace Exhibit, 2002), The Marriage at the Statue of Liberty (Brave Destiny, 2003), The Sea Heiress (2004), and Paradise Found (Artwork Celebrating John Milton’s 400th Birthday, 2008).