Dividing the Estate

11 May 2011
00:00:00 - 00:00:00

People's Light & Theatre

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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People's Light & Theatre
39 Conestoga Road
Malvern, PA 19355

Philadelphia premiere of Horton Foote's play, set in a small Texas town c. 1987, about the dysfunctional Gordon family who are forced to agree on a course of action for their very uncertain future.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Christopher Colucci

Colucci's sound designs for theater are distinguished by their sense of musicality, and what he describes as a "sensitivity to the power of sound to evoke the ineffable."

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New Paradise Laboratories Presents The Adults

Influenced by Chekhov and the paintings of Eric Fischl, and set to experimental music by Bhob Rainey, the highly physical and choreographed New Paradise ensemble offers The Adults.

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Grants & Grantees

I Promised Myself to Live Faster

Pig Iron Theatre Company will create a melodrama inspired by the aesthetic of theater legend Charles Ludlam, founder of Greenwich Village's Ridiculous Theatrical Company.

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The Pride of Parnell Street

Act II Playhouse produced this regional premiere by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry, which won the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on Threading Disparate Sources into a Cohesive Whole

Michael Rakowitz describes the process behind creating a performance and radio project involving American veterans and the Iraqi refugee community.

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Red-Eye to Havre de Grace at Walker Art Center

Thaddeus Phillips teams up with the Minneapolis-based musical duo Jeremy and David Wilhelm to create an action-opera centered on the odd details surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious last days.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Meiyin Wang

Meiyin Wang is the associate artistic producer of The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival and Symposium in New York, which presents new and cutting-edge theatrical work from the U.S. and abroad.

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Macbeth

FringeArts presents South African theater artist Brett Bailey's adaptation of Verdi's opera Macbeth, performed by the performance group Third World Bunfight.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Actor Dulé Hill on Nat “King” Cole’s “Quiet Revolution”

Actor Dulé Hill describes why the simple act of “being” can be an “act of quiet revolution.”

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*The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory*

The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory gathers the work of leading cultural practitioners who theorize the body as a crucible of knowledge.

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Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes: New York Premiere

The Bearded Ladies Cabaret’s Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes travels to La MaMa in New York City.

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FOURTEEN at the National Constitution Center: Spring 2020 Performances

The National Constitution Center presents FOURTEEN, a theatrical performance that sheds new light on the Reconstruction era and the ratification of the 14th Amendment.

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Grants & Grantees

Red-Eye to Havre de Grace

Thaddeus Phillips produced his largest show to date: an original musical about the delirious final days of Edgar Allen Poe's life, which he spent traveling between New York and Richmond.

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This Is the Week That Is: Political Humor for the Holidays

1812 Productions addressed current events in a production described as a combination of The Daily Show and The Carol Burnett Show.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Thaddeus Phillips

Thaddeus Phillips (Pew Fellow, 2002) creates theater works that use transformational scenography, documentary footage, and improvisation to peer into not-often seen worlds.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Jennifer Kidwell

Kidwell's poignant, performer-driven theater work addresses the complexities of race and notions of American history with sharp intelligence and wry humor.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on the Live Experience of Radio

Michael Rakowitz describes the “beautiful blindness” that radio can create for listeners.

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Questions of Practice: Elevator Repair Service’s John Collins on Process in Theater-Making

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Grants & Grantees

The Devil and Mister Punch

The 2011 FringeArts Festival featured the American premiere of Improbable Theatre's production, which took inspiration from the iconic puppet show Punch and Judy.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner is a renowned playwright perhaps best known for his two-part epic, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993.

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