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TheatreNow! guest Kristin Marting has done it again at HERE. The Prototype Festival became an instant classic two years ago, and the annual event will end next week. Get your tickets now!
PROTOTYPE OPERA / THEATRE / NOW
PROTOTYPE is the premier festival of opera-theatre and music-theatre. January 8–17, 2015
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PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now is the premier global festival of opera-theatre and music-theatre in New York City, co-produced by Beth Morrison Projects and HERE.
The third edition of PROTOTYPE, running from January 8–17, will feature two world premiere co-productions—composer Stefan Weisman and librettist David Cote’s The Scarlet Ibis, a dreamy contemporary family opera that weaves puppetry into its story-telling, and Korean-American artist Bora Yoon’s multimedia music-theatre work, Sunken Cathedral, which takes the audience on a sonic journey of deep psychological impact. The festival also includes Toxic Psalms, an international co-presentation with Slovenian vocal theatre company Carmina Slovenica and St. Ann’s Warehouse; Kansas City Choir Boy, a theatricalized concept album by Todd Almond, at HERE; two work-in-progress presentations of Beth Morrison Projects operas in development: Winter’s Child, by Ellen Reid and Amanda Jane Shank, co-presented with Trinity Wall Street, and Aging Magician, by Paola Prestini, Rinde Eckert, and Julian Crouch, co-presented with Park Avenue Armory and Opera America’s New Works Forum; and a one-night-only performance by Timur and the Dime Museum at Joe’s Pub.
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Murielle Borst Tarrant
La MaMa in New York City presented the Urban Indigenous Arts & Culture Symposium performance of DON’T FEED THE INDIANS – A DIVINE COMEDY PAGEANT livestreaming from CultureHub on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday November 14.
Murielle Borst Tarrant spoke about creating this pieces as a guest of TheatreNow (Season Three). Here is the transcript of our discussion: Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Interview with Murielle Borst Tarrant.
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: http://youtu.be/41Vj9u0Ig-M
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La MaMa Presents Urban Indigenous Arts & Culture Symposium
“Don’t Feed the Indians” –
A Divine Comedy Pageant
Friday November 14, 2014 at 1:00 PM
To see this performance Live on your computer
CLICK HERE: www.culturehub.org/live
Please stay tuned afterward with a discussion with the cast
Watch out when Indian show business meets the Doctrine of Discovery. A raucous play and political satire loosely based on Dante’s Inferno. A comedic look at the negative marginalization of Indigenous Peoples and the appropriation of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property. See what happens when the Indians push back.
Directed and written by:
Murielle Borst-Tarrant (Kuna/Rappahannock), Director “Safe Harbors”
Indigenous Arts/Theater Collective at La MaMa Theatre.
Cast:
Danielle Soames
(Mohawk Kahnawake)
Nic Billey
(Choctaw, Creek, Delaware)
Elizabeth Rolston
(Cherokee, Chippewa)
Murielle Borst-Tarrant
(Kuna Rappahanock)
Henu Josephine Tarrant
(Kuna, Rappahanock, Hopi, Hochunk)
Kevin Tarrant
(Hopi, Hochunk)
Crew:
Choreographer – Nic Billey
Musical Design- Branden Tubby (Choctaw )
Scribe and Production Consultant- Timothy Dorsey
Musical Director- Kevin Tarrant
Costume/set design- Maggie Rice (Pawnee)
Piano and Historical Musical Design- Elizabeth Thunder Bird Haile (Shinnecock) and The Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum
Production Apprentice- Kimberly Terrance (Mohawk Akwesasne)
Additional Writings:
Danielle Soames
Nic Billey
Henu Josephine Tarrant
Elizabeth Rolston
Tonya Gonnella Frichner based on her preliminary report on the Doctrine of Discovery
La MaMa Theatre in collaboration with the Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival, Native Earth Performing Arts and First Peoples Fund and the Ford Foundation through a grant from the FPF Our Nations Spaces Program.
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Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! is a podcast series featuring some of the most exciting women artists working in the theatre today. Anne Hamilton is the producer and host. You may listen to the podcasts and read the transcripts at http://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow!
Interview with Murielle Borst Tarrant
Playwright, Director and Producer
(Season 3, Episode 5, Recorded July 12, 2012)
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Interview with Murielle Borst Tarrant
Anne Hamilton: Welcome to Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! This is a podcast series featuring some of the most exciting female artists working in the theatre today. I’m your host, Anne Hamilton. Today our guest is Murielle Borst Tarrant.
Murielle is a member of the Kuna and Rappahannock Nations. She is an author, playwright, director, producer, cultural artist, educator, and human rights activist. She comes from a long line of cultural activism with her family’s theater company, the world famous Spiderwoman Theater, located in New York City. For four years she served as the Special Assistant and liaison to Tonya Gonnella Frichner, the North American Regional representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Finally, she is the director of “Safe Harbors” Indigenous Arts/Theatre Collective at La Mama ETC.
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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Congratulations to TheatreNow! guest Fran Tarr, who continues to create theatre all over the world. She has just returned from a working trip to South Africa. A theatre piece written by her young female collaborators with will appear in the EstroGenius Festival this month.
A message from Fran Tarr:
Our Young Women Artists & The EstroGenius Play Festival
An amazing opportunity to showcase the writing and performing talents of our young breaking walls women is happening at the renowned EstroGenius Play Festival on October 31st from 7:00pm to 8:30pm!!!
WOMEN SPEAK/WORLD LISTEN is a one-night theater event written by our young breaking walls women from Brooklyn, Bethlehem, Berlin and Cape Town and will be performed by Helen Beyene, Sofie Walker, Lexie Tompkins, Geri Nikole Love, Maggie Borlando and Margy Love under the direction of Chivonne Michelle.
All proceeds will support our breaking walls 2015 Barcelona initiative – so bring a friend or two, and if you will not be able to join us, please consider making a contribution via EventBrite. Tickets are $25.00 online and $30 (cash only) at the door.
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Congratulations to Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow!’s Inaugural Podcast guest Quiara Alegria Hudes. She leads off the cover story of this month’s THE DRAMATIST magazine with an article on “Subject”.
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Congratulations to TheatreNow! guest Kamilah Forbes, who directed SUNSET BABY in New York City. It has been extended! Kamilah was a guest in Season Two, and has a hit with Dominique Morisseau’s new play. Brava!
http://labtheater.org/sunset-baby/
#theatrenow!
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Congratulations to Maria Alexandria Beech, whose new play HOMEBODIES will be read tomorrow in New York City. Alex was a guest on Season Three of TheatreNow! You can read a transcript of the interview at http://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com/season-three/maria-alexandria-beech/
You’re invited to a reading of
HOMEBODIES
By Alex Beech
Directed by Michelle Bossy
The cast includes Socorro Santiago, Florencia Lozano, Cathy Curtin, Omar Koury, and Jorge Cordova
Primary Stages Studio, 307 W 38th St, #1510
Sunday, April 28th, 3pm
It’s a sort of farce. About upstairs/downstairs neighbors in a brownstone.
To rsvp, write readings@primarystages.org
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Tune in to a new show directed by TheatreNow! guest Murielle Borst Tarrant. Murielle’s episode will be posted soon.
LIVE STREAM PERFORMANCE COMING TO YOU FROM LA MAMA & CULTUREHUB
“Dante’s Inferno, a journey into hell, a life in Indian show business”
Tune in on Monday April 29th at 11AM EST
Streaming to you live at http://www.culturehub.org/live1
Directed by Murielle Borst-Tarrant
Featuring Nicholson Billey, Tanis Parenteau, Josephine Tarrant and Kevin Tarrant
Watch out when Indian show business meets the “Doctrine of Discovery”. A raucous political satire loosely based on Dante’s Inferno. A comedic, hard hitting look at the marginalization of Indigenous Peoples and appropriation of Indigenous cultural property in show business. Watch this 30 minute workshop piece and join us afterward for a panel discussion with the cast on “Self-Determination and the Arts.”
With special guests:
Tonya Gonnella Frichner, ESQ ( Onondaga Nation, Snipe Clan) President and Founder American Indian Law Alliance
Karmenlara Ely Artistic Director of The Norwegian Theater Academy
And
Muriel Miguel ( Kuna, Rappahannock) Artistic Director of Spiderwoman Theater
http://www.murielleborsttarrant.com
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Congratulations to Season One Guest Yvette Heyliger, who continues to perform her one woman show BRIDGE TO BARAKA. Catch her in NY or LA. Yvette completed an MFA in Playwrighting from Queens College a couple of years ago, and has returned to the stage as well as continuing as an active producer.
1 More Show in NY for Black History Month
1 Show in LA for Women’s History Month
Playwright/actor Yvette Heyliger is pleased to announce that during Back History Month she will be performing 30 minutes of her solo show, Bridge to Baraka, directed by Mario Giacalone in John Chatterton’s Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival. The remaining show is on Sunday, February 24th @ 4:15pm, Roy Arias Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street # 402 (at 8th Avenue). Tickets are $13.00. Click here to purchase your tickets today! A Talk back with the playwright following the show can be arranged upon request
Emboldened by the 1960’s Black Arts Movement, Yvette X stakes her claim as a female dramatist coming of age during the ongoing fight for parity in the American Theatre. Bridge to Baraka is Yvette’s first one-woman show and marks her return to performing since appearing on the NBC hit, Cosby Show. Martin Denton, nytheatre.com critic, said, “Heyliger has clearly carved out a successful life for herself since then as actor and then playwright/activist (she’s a notable campaigner for parity for women playwrights on the American stage).”
During Women’s History Month, Yvette is pleased to announce that she will be heading to the West Coast to perform Bridge to Baraka in the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival. The show will be at the Renberg Theater on Friday, March 22nd @ 8pm. For tickets and information visit http://www.lawtf.org.
Photo by Miriam Berkley
Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow! 