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IndivisibleArtists Unite for the Salvation Army October 3-28, 2001 Grove Street Playhouse39 Grove Street Take 1/9 to Christopher Street stop. See the calendar and details of each program below. For tickets, contact SmartTix
on-line or at (212) 206-1515. 
From the ProducersYears and decades will pass before we can make sense of the events
of September 11. This festival cannot hope or promise to help
anyone do so. What we do want to achieve is twofold: to raise money
for the Salvation Army, whose efforts have been nothing short of
heroic, and to use the talents of the gifted group of artists who
have so generously donated their time to comfort, entertain, and
provide some much needed distraction for the good people of the great
city. We are deeply honored to bring you Indivisible. Operation Compassion Under FireWithin hours of the first plane striking the World Trade Center, The Salvation Army was on site with its initial service of food, drinks, and compassion to the many thousands of rescue and recovery workers who were drawn to the site in aid of the victims. As hours and days passed, The Salvation Army continued 24-hour service to these workers, food service growing from the initial sandwiches to full, hot meals. T-shirts, work pants, socks, work boots, flashlights, batteries, respirators, dog boots, Tylenol, personal hygiene items, all donated by thousands of Americans, much of it trucked from outside the New York area, were distributed from Salvation Army canteens. Shelter was provided for emergency workers at the Army's 14th Street headquarters for the first few nights following the eleventh. 
In other parts of the City, Salvation Army grief counseling teams were placed at the Medical Examiner's Office and at the Lexington Avenue Armory, which was the first designated site for families to register loved ones as missing. When the Family Assistance site was moved to Pier 94, The Salvation Army moved with it, providing comfort and material assistance to so many grieving families. The work at Ground Zero and the assistance to families of victims and those displaced from jobs and homes as a result of the September 11 tragedy will go on for many months. For some families, support and assistance will be required for years. The Salvation Army is deeply grateful to everyone who has provided support for its disaster work and to those who volunteered their time, their talents, and their treasure in reaching out to the victims of this horrific event. ContributorsPresented by Gideon Productions in association with:
Featuring:
Calendar
Boys' Life
Donald Lyons, New York Post, September 20, 2001:
Boys' Life traces the misadventures of three former college buddies
now seeking to make their way in the big city--and with various women
of their acquaintance. There is the cynical Jack, who is already
married and a father, but is not above pursuing daytime adulteries
while baby-sitting in the park; the innocent, vulnerable Phil, who
grows weary of not being taken seriously and concludes that being
unhappy is the way things are supposed to be; and the handsome,
amoral Don, who risks a solid relationship with his girlfriend by
sleeping with another, simply to see if he "could get away with it".
Moving along briskly, with its mood of satirical humor brilliantly
sustained, the play dissects and anatomizes male narcissism- and
protracted adolescence- which characterizes its protagonists and, in
the end, makes it hilariously clear that it is actually the women who
possess the qualities of "manhood" and maturity which their deluded
lovers so desperately lay claim to. Cast and Crew:
D. J. R. Bruckner, New York Times, September 11, 2001:
Howard Korder is reputed to be one of the finest modern playwrights. Boys' Life garnered a 1988 Pulitzer Prize nomination. Other plays include Search and Destroy (Los Angeles Drama Critics' Award for best new play); Night Maneuver; Fun (Heideman Award for best one act); Nobody (HBO Writer's Award in the O'Niell Playwrights Conference); The Lights (Seven Drama Desk nominations and an Obie Award for Playwriting). Along with numerous screenplay credits he is the recipient of a 1996 Guggenheim Fellowship in playwriting. Broken Watch Productions, Inc. is a fledgling company committed to producing fully professional theatre that employs the next generation of theatrical artists. We foster an environment that encourages the intellectual, physical, emotional, spiritual and financial growth of the actors and technical staff. All are cast in roles or positions that are challenging but not out of reach. We do intelligent, solidly written plays with themes that are relevant to today's audiences. We believe that high artistic and production values coupled with low ticket prices will expand our audience beyond the immediate theatrical community. We will also be engaging in a student outreach program by offering free tickets to students in professional artist training programs in the city. By the strength of our actors, directors, technical staff, material and it's deft execution we create an experience that restores the understanding that theatre is unique and irreplaceable. 
After the StormHeather Grayson was a young, naive college student when the United States sent her to fight in the Gulf War. She had unusual smarts, a steel will and an all-American ambition to succeed. After the Storm is one woman's story of high hopes, shocking betrayal, and a struggle for identity which sheds light on America's recent, undiscussed history. Heather Grayson allows us to hear a woman soldier's point of view, courageously sharing her soldier's coming of age experience, her disillusionment with the system, and her private battles with our nation's largest military service. This has been a big year for Heather Grayson to play powerful women in extraordinary circumstances: the title role in Hamlet, the lesbian lawyer in Escape from Happiness, and Young Valerie Solonas in Valerie Shoots Andy. And now Lieutenant Karen Kokotis. Last month she performed with Works productions under the direction of Hilary Adams. Heather's previous NYC stage credits include the off-Broadway run of Even Steven, the original cast of A Town Called Shame, Tryptich, Macbeth, Miles Below Zero, and Lux in Tenebris for the American Living Room Festival. Regional Theatre includes The Visit, The Nutcracker, The Seagull and Playing for Time. Favorite stage credits: Merchant of Venice, Dancing at Lughnasa (Bombshell's beginning!), Laundry and Bourbon, and A Coupla White Chicks. MFA from UNC-Chapel Hill. Heather will join Moving Parts Productions in the spring to perform Broken Boughs, giving her a chance to get back to her southern roots. Review by Joshua Tanzer, www.offoffoff.com:
Hope & RecoveryThree one-act plays presented by Magnetic North Theater Company:
Gallimaufry
Regulars of the Dog & Pony variety show, a downtown fixture since 1998, perform a mixture of old work and new--including the found-text piece goats, (p)art one and the absurdist outhouse masterwork Plantation. Featuring sketches by The Nice Men, performance art and dance by Sara Lamm's teatro de los interesados, and Very Big Cups, a new one act play by Brent Cox featuring Brent Cox, Henry Tenney, Michelle Morrison, and Tim Ellis. 110 StoriesWriter/director Sarah Tuft:
Sarah Tuft's first narrative short, Tide, premieres at LA Shortsfest and Hamptons International Film Festival this month. Sarah comes to film-making having already made her mark in painting, photography and video art. Her work showed in galleries, alternative spaces and museums worldwide and has aired on MTV and PBS. After that, Sarah assistant directed, script supervised and then, directed music videos. She still produces and directs TV promos. Sarah's new to theatre. After directing a 24 hour play last year, she was hooked. Gareth & LynetteGareth needs a quest so he can become a Knight of the Round Table. Lynette needs a Knight of the Round Table (preferably Lancelot) to rescue her sister. What they don't need is each other, but, of course, that's exactly what they get. Together they battle enchanted knights, hostile terrain and each other on their way towards a happy ending. Incredibly loosely based on a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Matthew Reese (Gareth)--AFTRA--is a graduate of the Actors Studio Drama Program and a member of Emerging Artists Theatre Company and Magnetic North. He would like to dedicate this performance to those who just need a smile. Casey Weaver (Lynette) was last seen in The Misanthrope at the Flatiron Playhouse. Other NY credits include: Hallelujah Breakdown, (Intar and PSNBC), Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, (Wings Theatre), Gareth and Lynette, (Intar), Svetlana's New Flame, (Sandee Shurin), Pimp Clause, (NYC Fringe '99) Casey would like to thank EAT for all their talent and support. Mark Finley (Director) recently had a major success directing his own adaptation of the 1962 sci-fi novel Young Stowaways in Space. He has also directed for Emerging Artists Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Tightship Productions, The Neighborhood Playhouse and NativeAliens Theater Collective. Much thanks to all involved in this production! Booby Traps Everywhere
Written and Performed by Toni Silver, writer and performer of A Cab is Cheaper than a Funeral. Conceived and directed by Joseph Shahadi. Featuring musician Spiff Wiegand. Monday, September 10th, was a really good day. I finished my script (about gender illusion, peri-menopause and my adventures in the nuthouse). I fell asleep in my girlfriend's arms, murmuring "happy first anniversary, sweetie," in her lovely bed in her great apartment in Battery Park City. And then I woke up. And everything changed. Booby Traps Everywhere is about what happened next, with some laughs and accordian music. 
Toni Silver is a performance artist, writer and native New Yawker, who took a 22-year hiatus from show business, a period highlighted by careers as everything from switchboard operator to garmento to Lauren Bacall's personal assistant. She premiered her one-woman vaudeville show, A Cab is Cheaper than a Funeral at the 1999 Fringe Festival in Philadelphia, and was selected for the Brick Playhouse Fringe Friday Series in February 2000. Earlier this year, a revamped A Cab is Cheaper than a Funeral had a sold out run at the legendary New York cabaret, Rose's Turn, helmed by Joseph Shahadi. Toni has performed in alternative variety shows all over the city; at Manhattan Theatre Source, Dixon Place, Rose's Turn, The Duplex, Pulse Ensemble Theater, etc. She inaugurated the Virgin Bride Cabaret series at the nationally renowned Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia . Recent NYC credits include Bus Man in Mac Wellman's Whirligig at Common Basis Theater and the improv show Just Say Yes at the Samuel Beckett Theater. She also schlepped loonily as Louise, the frowsy French maid in Private Lives at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia. Toni is featured as Gina in the new independent film, The Doghouse, and is a regular voice on the In Touch Radio Network. She has fond memories of her first professional appearance as the title role in a rock musical version of The Ugly Duckling at the Beacon Theater in 1975. Really. Toni premiered Booby Traps Everywhere at the 2001 Estrogenius Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source. She has been invited to perform in the First Annual Funny Women Festival in Philadelphia at the end of the month. Toni performs courtesy of Actor's Equity, and is a proud member of Temporary Industrial Arts. Joe Shahadi is a performance artist, playwright and actor-manager of Temporary/Industrial Arts. His play, American Standard, was produced at Expanded Arts in 1997. In addition, his work has been presented at Collective Unconscious and New Dance Alliance. As a resident artist at the Brick Playhouse, he created, wrote and starred in a regular collaborative performance event, The Joe Show. Other notable works include Fortitude, Lisa-The Erotic Adventures of a Girl and The Kiss (with dancer Heather Murphy), for which the Philadelphia Weekly described him as "masterful, brutish and graceful." He now lives in Queens. Spiff Wiegand is a bachelor of Classical Guitar Performance, but has found himself accompanying and composing for dance, self-publishing his poetry, teaching young children to compose music, and developing musical tours of visual art. Over the past two years, Spiff's role in theater has grown from composing music and having the occasional line, to understudying two lead roles and playing both trumpet and violin in a national tour. He is happy to find himself in New York pursuing a career as an accordianist and developing his own songs for upcoming musical projects. Temporary/Industrial Arts is a collective of independent artists in different media led by performance artist Joe Shahadi. T/IA creates flexible "working groups" of independent artists who come together for the creation of specific works. T/IA partners with established theaters and companies to share resources, access funding, and produce new work but remains unaffiliated and independent. The value is in favor of experimental works and approaches. We believe:
Matthew BrookshireMatthew Brookshire performs songs you may have heard elsewhere, an evening of musical excavation into pop at the end of the last century. In New York, Matthew Brookshire's work as an actor and director has been seen at La Mama, Joe's Pub, the Duplex, PSNBC at HERE and the 24 Hour Plays. Matthew has performed his "reimagined neoclassics" in NYC with the Dog & Pony Show. Second StringJust a few weeks after a national tragedy and a personal loss, eight friends leave New York for a weekend to return to their college town for a wedding. Rick, a failed filmmaker and a generally disliked individual finds himself called upon at the last minute to replace the best man and to deliver a blessing at the wedding ceremony. But what do you say at a joyous occasion that follows so closely on so much sorrow? How do you ressurect the optimism and hope so essential for a celebration of marriage after both have been so brutally ripped away? Rick doesn't know, but he'd better find out fast--he has a day and a half to come up with the blessing. Second String is a funny, sad, ultimately uplifting play that follows this day and a half among eight friends who are forced to re-examine every value in their lives in the wake of an earthshaking trauma. Mac Rogers has been writing and putting on plays since he was in the fifth grade, and he likes it just as much now as he did then. New York productions include Dirty Juanita with Gideon and Wine and Roll with Major Deegan Lab. Watch for the production of his new play The Sky Over Nineveh next year with the Theater of Relativity. Favorite acting roles include Deeley in Old Times and King Henry in Jean Anouilh's Becket. Second String is dedicated to all the victims of 9/11, now and to come. |
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