I'm happy to announce that my play Disfarmer -- a newer and hopefully more improved version -- is going to be part of TheatreSquared's Arkansas New Play Festival in May.
The very, very cool thing about the New Play Festival this year is that TheatreSquared is sharing the festival with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. So the reading of Disfarmer -- as well as three other exciting-looking new plays --will happen in Fayetteville and Little Rock.
Below is the release and the details of the shows. I'll have more about Disfarmer later.
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Arkansas Repertory Theatre presents TheatreSquared’s 2011 Arkansas New Play Fest on Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, May 22 at Argenta Community Theatre in North Little Rock. The Arkansas New Play Fest features professional staged readings of four original plays. Each script is rehearsed, staged and performed by professional artists , script in hand, for the public and playwright. Following each reading, there will be a talkback session with the playwright and the cast.
Saturday, May 21
4:00 p.m. They Want by Alan Berks
8:00 p.m. Disfarmer by Werner Trieschmann
Sunday, May 22
3:00 p.m. In The Book Of by John Walch
7:00 p.m. Look Away by Robert Ford
Argenta Community Theatre (ACT)
405 Main Street North Little Rock
Tickets are $7 per reading or $20 for all four readings.
Call The Rep Box Office (501) 378-0405.
Featured Plays
They Want by Alan M. Berks
Directed by Robert Ford
This modern retelling of The Oresteia by Aeschylus, dramatically explores the internal dynamics of a powerful family during a time of war. The play revolves around the debt of vengeance forged by fateful choices made by the powerful “Minister of War” and head of the household. When a journalist is invited into the family's inner sanctum, a delicate balance is disturbed, unleashing a dangerous chain of events. This play forces us to question what we think we know about family, war, patriotism and ultimately our relationship with truth.
Disfarmer by Werner Trieschmann
Directed by Kate Frank
In the small mountain town of Heber Springs, Arkansas, the portrait artist known as Disfarmer captured the lives and emotions of the people of rural America between 1939and 1945. To the townspeople he was an eccentric recluse. But decades later, critics hailed his remarkable black and white portraits as works "of artistic genius" and "a classical episode in the history of American photography." Depicting the often comic clash of urban and rural cultures, this play captures the artist at work – and the feeding frenzy that occurred much later when New York gallery owners fought to acquire his photographs.
In The Book Of by John Walch
Directed by Amy Herzberg
This engaging new play re-imagines the biblical book of Ruth, in which Naomi and Anisah are reeling from the losses of their husbands in contemporary Afghanistan. Naomi, a U.S. Army Lieutenant stationed near Kabul, is discharged and prepares to return to the States when Anisah, her Afghan translator, unexpectedly asks to go with her. A simple leap of faith brings this unlikely pair to a small town in Mississippi, where love and tolerance struggle to overcome hatred and fear as the two try to rebuild their lives.
Look Away by Robert Ford
Directed by Robert Ford
In rural Arkansas in the 1930s, we meet Matty and Alonzo, African American teenagers who've narrowly escaped a lynch mob by slipping into the kitchen of the Wilson Company plantation house where Alonzo’s mother is head housekeeper. They plan to persuade Roy Wilson, head of this powerful, eccentric family, to defend them after they have been accused of raping two white girls. Prejudice battles family loyalty, childhood friendship and love in this provocative new drama based on true events.
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