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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News

On Stage This Spring: Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Frank Zappa’s genre-defying The Yellow Shark, John Guare’s Lydie Breeze Cycle Marathon, and More

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Mara Isaacs

Mara Isaacs is the founder and director of Octopus Theatricals LLC, a company dedicated to producing and consulting in the performing arts.

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Grants & Grantees

Heiner Goebbels: Imaginary Stages

The Philadelphia premiere of two works by Heiner Goebbels—an internationally acclaimed German composer and director—merges theater, performative installation, and experimental chamber music.

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Perfect Blue

Tiny Dynamite presents a digital theatrical experience co-produced with British theater company Pursued By A Bear.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

The Wilma Theater

The Wilma Theater creates living, adventurous art through bold and ambitious design choices.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Paula Vogel

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel's current playwriting project is a Center-funded commission for Philadelphia's Wilma Theater, based on Don Juan Returns from the War.

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Romeo Castellucci Film Screening and Discussion with Tom Sellar

This free event includes film excerpts of Romeo Castellucci's theater works, and a discussion with scholar and critic Tom Sellar about Castellucci's approach.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Fiach Mac Conghail

Fiach Mac Conghail has led the Abbey Theatre, the national theatre of Ireland, as director and CEO since 2005.

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Grants & Grantees

The Winter's Tale

People's Light & Theatre Company mounted a highly physical production of Shakespeare's play with Guy Hollands of Glasgow's Citizen's Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland.

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Facing Front Artist Talk: Building Performance

Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion will have spent the week with 35 Philadelphia-based artists, curators, and writers in an intensive workshop on process. This last day of the session will open a window into their work and process, allowing for time to talk formally and informally about how we build performances.

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Grants & Grantees

The Listeners

Themes of community, ritual, belonging, and belief are explored in a new opera by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek, co-produced by Norwegian National Opera.

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Perfect Blue

A live and digital theatrical experience will question the impact of technology on human connectivity as two actors perform their roles on separate continents—one live in a theater and the other projected through a live-streaming video feed.

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News

Projects on Tour: Center-Supported Works by Ann Hamilton, David Ludwig, Silvana Cardell, and more

After premieres in the Philadelphia region, Center-funded performances and exhibitions are reaching new national and international audiences in venues around the world.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Robert Prosky

Film, television, and stage actor Robert Prosky (1930–2008) had hundreds of credits to his name in television, film, and the theater.

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Grants & Grantees

Chicken

Independent artist Charlotte Ford developed and produced an absurdist three-person play "that magnifies our most intimate fears."

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Questions of Practice

Inside Opera Philadelphia: Q&A with David Devan, General Director & President

Opera Philadelphia's David Devan talks with us about the market research that informed the organization’s decision to present a city-wide festival.

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Grants & Grantees

An Investigation of Contingency and the Uses of Data Streams

New Paradise Laboratories' core ensemble will expand their devised theater techniques and lay the groundwork for a series of new pieces, through investigations of improvisational structures, games of chance, and audience interactivity, with a group of international practitioners including composer Bhob Rainey and UK game theory specialist Tassos Stevens.

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The Metamorphoses of Don Juan

Opera Philadelphia and the Wilma Theater will explore the Don Juan legend in scenes from theatrical works inspired by the famed lover.

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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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Zero Cost House at the University of Maryland

Pig Iron Theatre Company's newest work, a collaboration with Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada, originally made its world premiere at Philadelphia's 2012 FringeArts Festival.

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