"Να και κάτι καλό μέσα στην ατμόσφαιρα που ζούμε.Στο Μαίρυλαντ των ΗΠΑ, συγκεκριμένα στο "TheVenus Theater", θα παιχθεί το νέο θεατρικό έργο της Ζωής με τίτλο The Stenographer.
Οι παραστάσεις θα είναι τέσσερις την εβδομάδα για τον μήνα Μάιο. Οι
λεπτομέρειες στο συνημμένο λινκ, μόνο για τους αγγλομαθείς.
Ο Υπερήφανος πατήρ
(δεχόμεθα χαρτομάντηλα για τα δάκρυα της συγκίνησης)"
Venus Theatre
2011 Calendar:
The Sidhe Shee’s
March 5. 8pm. Harp and Fiddle. Bethesda, MD.
…of recovering
her-story
Three fascinating historical women in three one-woman shows
March 2011
…of taking big risks
The Stenographer by Zoe Mavroudi - Athens, Greece
The tradition of mounting brand-new, world premiere work is honored
May 2011
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 3pm
…of learning through play, PLAY!
Workshops and Educational Program Launch in the summertime!
June 20 – July 30, 2011
…of honoring the great ones
Three short plays by Lady Gregory
September 1 – 25, 2011
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 3pm
…of children
HEARTFRIENDS return to Venus Theatre
October – December 2011
The on-line box office will be fully functioning by
February 20, 2011.
March 5. 8pm. Harp and
Fiddle. Bethesda, MD.
In 1999,
before founding Venus Theatre, Deborah Randall set her sights on exploring the
story of the women of the Molly Maguires, a legendary fraternity of men
associated with the Ancient Order of Hibernians. In 2000 Venus Theatre was
officially founded and the first production was Daughters of Molly Maguire,
a three act, 12 person, musical telling of mythology and history. Alan
Scott, Venus Theatre’s Musical Director created a three hour score for Daughters.
One publication, three productions, and twelve years later the music rocks on.
Over the decade, Randall learned to play and sing the songs she’d written
(thanks to Scott!) and has toured the show as a solo act through five states
over five years. In fact, the work is taught in a class on local history
at Penn State and has been published in an
anthology entitled, Anthracite! distributed by Chicago
University Press. Andrea Abrams Creel (vocals/harmonium) toured into PA with Randall in 2002. It was here the company revisited the historic sites before bringing the story to the Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton, PA. It was Andrea’s job to tell the story of Ellen O’Donnell. She was a 19-year-old woman who was murdered at the massacre of Wiggan’s Patch on December 10, 1875. This is only mentioned in four sentences in one history book, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires by Kevin Kenny. On breaks, the touring cast visited the Hibernian House and sang for people there. Wiggan’s Patch was also on the list and the cast vowed to always tell the story. Also, during this production a photo exhibit of Coal Women was resurrected from the basement of the museum and lined the walls of the performance space.
Amy Rhodes (bass/flute/vocals) was with Randall on the very first visit to the region as the obsession began. She was also in the original 12-woman show of 2000 at the Warehouse Theatre in Washington, DC. Amy played a character called Findebair, a Celtic goddess. The objective of the production was to embrace the varying powers of archetypal women and use them to fill in the gender gaps of history. Amy played flute throughout the production in 2000.
The three performers have only just begun to play the songs together. The first official Sidhe Shee gig is on March 5th at the Harp and Fiddle in Bethesda, MD. They’ll be opening for the Alan Scott Band.
for
the love of recovering her-story
Three fascinating historical women in three
one-woman shows
March 2011
All three
women jolted their eras and now insist on being heard again. Venus Theatre
draws these notorious, culturally explosive figures out of the mists of history
and puts them on stage throughout March for Women’s History Month. Watch as
these bold women chase after the truth of their lives and battle the ghosts
that haunted them and the society that held them up to scrutiny.The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman by Carolyn Gage
Performed by Karen Shields, courtesy of Break the Mold Productions, New Orleans.
March 10, 11, and 12 at 8pm and March 13 at 3pm
Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876) was one of the greatest actresses of the nineteenth century and was exceptional for her undaunted lesbianism. A large butch woman, she cross-dressed to play men’s roles and boldly referred to her partner as her wife. In this play, Cushman grapples with breast cancer, reprising from her repertoire moving and hilarious scenes involving death from Macbeth, Hamlet, Oliver Twist, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry VIII and other plays.
Hypnotic Murderess by Steven E. Levingston
Performed by Kelsey Painter, courtesy of Venus Theatre
March 17, 18, and 19 at 8pm and March 20 at 3pm
Gabrielle Bompard (1868-1923) was a young, suggestible bourgeois woman who was dominated and hypnotized by men until she finally was lured into taking part in murder. In this one-woman show, she relives her life and crime from her prison cell, fighting off her demons but bathing in the memory of her sensational celebrity in Belle Epoque Paris. Her tale highlights the tensions involving gender, law and order, and hypnotism in France toward the close of the nineteenth century.
Lou by John Carter
Performed by Kathryn Kelley, courtesy of Venus Theatre
March 24, 25, and 26 at 8pm and March 27 at 3pm
Lou Salomé (1861-1937) was a groundbreaking writer and psychoanalyst, but her most superb work was the high-wire act of her life. With her brilliance and her raging hunger to know, she inspired every life she entered: Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud all fell under her spell. In this one-woman show, she is beyond middle age but still full of fire and now at a loss over the suicide of a lover she spurned. Speaking to her dear Sigi (Freud), she sorts through the torments of her life and her lost loves.
for
the love of taking big risks
The tradition of mounting brand-new, world
premiere work is honored
May 2011
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 3pm
The
Stenographer by Zoe Mavroudi, - Athens, GreeceThe Professor and The Girl spend an unlikely evening together. The play is set in a suburban house in a college town, somewhere near New York. The topic of conversation is Crime and Punishment. And the drama is an internal storm where integrity clashes with philosophical rationalizations, alcohol, and literary analysis. It’s not at all what the viewer thinks it will be.
Zoe Mavroudi is getting some recognition from the BBC for her solo show, Beauty is Prison Time. (www.beautyisprisontime.com)
BBC radio says, “What a story! Quite simply, a tour-de-force. If this isn’t what theatre’s about, then I don’t know what is.”
Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers Annual Playwright Prize, where Mavroudi was a finalist says, “What a voice, a spirit, a sheer magnificent presence we have on stage. This woman is vital in the extreme, nimbly conscious of her audience, utterly endearing.”
The Stenographer is a world premiere work. A deeply moving piece that will read on intellectual and emotional levels at once.
for the love of learning through play, PLAY!
Workshops and Educational Program Launch in the
summertime!
June
20 – July 30, 2011
Weekly camps with Saturday performances.
Camp Schedule
released by March 15, 2011
for
the love of honoring the great ones
Three short plays by Lady Gregory
September
1 – 25, 2011
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 3pm
Lady
Gregory met W.B. Yeats in 1896 after the death of her husband in 1892.
Her recording of her husband’s autobiography and his grandfather’s letters for
publication was the beginning of her writing career. Yeats had poor
eyesight and Lady Gregory was his stenographer. At the age of 44, she
became a playwright. And, by the time of her death in 1932 at the age of
80 she had written more than 40 plays. She’d been a creative sounding
board to great artists. She and W.B. Yeats had launched a new dramatic
movement. Lady Gregory was one of the most effective female theatre
producers of all time.
“Lady Gregory,
mother of many books, Daughter of Ireland, daughter of wise words, of good
deeds, of great humour, lover of tree and sweet herb, of beast and bird, we
hail thee still! We do not wish, nor can we afford, to murmur farewell to
thee for a long, long time to come.”
- Sean O’Casey, A Sprig of Rosemary Among the Laurel.
The
Travelling Man (A Miracle Play). Lady Gregory’s first
play. This play embraces spiritual transformation, which was common in
her writing. Lady Gregory began writing this with Yeats in 1902 after a
chance greeting from a beggar who thanked her by saying, “the Lord will be a
travelling man to you”. She and Yeats differed on the interpretation and her
version was published in 1905 and produced by the Abbey in 1910.The Rising of the Moon. A nationalist folk-history play produced by the Abbey in 1907. In her introduction about Lady Gregory, Mary FitzGerald tells readers that Gregory was “lost among the bed clothes soon after birth and nearly suffocated.” Her parents had so many children by that time that her birth name, Isabella Augusta, was borrowed from a distant family friend because all of the family names had been used. The child Augusta was very attached to her nurse and the birthright she’d been given allowed her tremendous freedom. Politically, she clashed fiercely with her family. They noticed, but didn’t see it as any sort of problem because they never viewed her as a girl who would become a woman of influence. Because of this, her focus was largely on the underclass and downtrodden. The Rising of the Moon is a prime example of her nationalism given a happy end. FitzGerald writes, “the play so galvanized Abbey audiences that the directors worried about when and whether to play it in later years.”
The Workhouse Ward. A highly popular comedy staged in 1908. This began as a collaboration with Douglas Hyde on a Gaelic play that Lady Gregory translated as, “The Poorhouse.” FitzGerald notes, “Rarely has comic inversion been used to better effect.” This can be read allegorically as the Irish quarreling with England. Over time it has been most effective when approached simply as the story of “two cantankerous old men who need to fight with each other for companionship”.
for the love of children
HEARTFRIENDS return to Venus
Theatre
October – December 2011
The times of the shows will be listed on the
Venus Theatre website by
February 20, 2011.
Venus Founder Deborah
Randall and Music Director Alan Scott bring back Heartfriends musicals for
children of all ages.In October, Haunted Heartfriends will celebrate Halloween in a fun and non-scary way with puppetry, song, and dance.
In November/December, Juanita the Walrus Goes on a Shopping Spree will make its third appearance at Venus Theatre.
These are fun holiday events that bring up to four generations together
for one fun filled portion of an hour!
…keep creating…forthelove…
Venus
Theatre was Helen Hayes Recommended in 2010's final show entitled,
"Looking for the Pony".
We begin 2011 with sincere
thanks to the teams that have made Venus stellar since the year 2000. Jane Horwitz of the Post said we have a "...trademark feminist roar..."
Kim Krisberg of the Blade said we were "Radically Redefining Beauty"
As we soldier on as the canary in the coal mine we will strive to meet our objective by honoring our team members and serving the work to the best of our ability. Survival is key-artistry a must. And, we are here to make a positive artistic impact.
So in 2011, we will be moving faster and stronger than ever before.
Every penny that goes into Venus goes to keeping the overhead covered and the artists paid. We are minimalist in our approach because our resources are intended to go to people not paint, or wood, or fabric.
We continue to radically redefine and we hope to see you soon!
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