It's That Time of Year...

Happy Holidays!

From S&B to you!

And we would like to extend a HUGE THANK YOU to all those who have worked on and supported our fall semester of theatre! We appreciate so greatly your commitment to theatre on campus and we CANNOT WAIT for spring

See you in 2011!

As We Like It? As YOU Like It!

Come join in on the fun of the 4th Sock & Buskin/TAPS production of the 2010-2011 Season!

Audition for:

As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare

Directed by: Nicholas Ridout

Auditions will be held in Stuart Theatre on:

Monday, November 29th from 2pm-5pm and 6pm-10pm

and

Tuesday, November 30th from 6pm-10pm

Callbacks will be held in Stuart Theatre on:

Friday, December 3rd from 2pm-5pm and 6pm-10pm

No preparation necessary, sides will be provided!

Other Important Dates:

First Rehearsal - January 19 

(**NOTE: This means you will have to return a week early from Winter Break**)

Performances - March 3rd-6th and 10th-13th

Think you'd wear the nametags better than these folks?

Come prove it!

To Whet Your Appetite...

Pippin
in
Stuart Theatre
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 2pm

And our costumes are even better.

FRESHMEN FREE THURSDAYS FOR PIPPIN

The second weekend of Pippin is about to begin and what better way to kick it off than by saying hello to all our wonderful freshmen with FREE tickets on Thursday? (8pm. Stuart Theatre. Be there.)

Check Your Boxes!

Check your mailboxes for your $2 off coupon for tickets to Pippin!
The show opens Thursday and runs this weekend and next weekend.

Wigs, false eyelashes, vaudeville, singing, dancing, Medieval France...what more could you ask for?
Oh that's right, a duck. See last post.

Pippin Is Coming...

And in anticipation of next Thursday's opening night, we'd like you to meet Kerry Hall and His Friend, Duck:



Get ready.

(And get your tickets at the Box Office in the Leeds Breezeway in Lyman Hall any Tuesday-Thursday from noon until 5pm or any time online on the TAPS website!)

Remember: FROSH FREE THURSDAYS

Hey all you Freshmen (sorry, "first years") out there: don't forget to come see A Lie of the Mind in Leeds Theatre for FREE this Thursday!

...It's FREE!
(And it's awesome.)

Reserve your tickets at the box office in the Lyman Hall Breezeway outside of Leeds Theatre.

Extra! Extra! Brown Playwrights are Some of the Country's Most Produced!

Every year, American Theatre compiles a list of the plays produced most often in the United States by companies that are members of the Theatre Communications Group (excluding Shakespeare and holiday plays). Brown playwrights are all over this year's list! Go us!

In first place for 2009-2010 is:
boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb '97

Tied for second are:
Speech and Debate by Stephen Karam '02 (which premiered at Brown/Trinity Playwright's Rep)
and
Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl A.B. '97, M.F.A. '01

See the rest of the list HERE

Kaspar's Got Its Head In The Cloud

Visit the Kaspar blog here: kaspar2010.blogspot.com

(We meant the computing cloud. That's why that title was clever. Get it?)

Audition for S&B's 3rd Show of the Season: Kaspar!

Audition for the TAPS/Sock & Buskin production of

Kaspar
A tragi-comedy by Peter Handke
Directed by Ioana Jucan '11
In Leeds Theatre

Sept. 27, 7-11pm

Sept. 28, 3-5pm and 7-10pm

Sign-up in the Leeds Breezeway, or just stop by during the auditions.

Kaspar is a work of theater art that profoundly questions the applicability of proof, language, and the individual's socialization through mind, language, and consciousness.

We are looking for bold/intrigued/curious performers of all experience levels to audition to be a part of this experiment in language and society.

*Copies of the play are in the Becker Library in Lyman Hall. Email sockandbuskin@gmail.com for an electronic copy of the script.

It's a (Postering) Party!

Come one, come all to Leeds Breezeway at 10:45pm this very evening to meet some Sock & Buskin board members and grab some posters to aid us in our guerilla postering effort to advertise our upcoming show A Lie of the Mind! There might even be cookies...

Seriously though, come. We're really friendly and we could use the help!

S&B is Lying...

Come see the first S&B show of the season! It's:

A Lie of the Mind

By Sam Shepard

Directed by Lowry Marshall

SEPTEMBER 23-26
& SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 3

IN LEEDS THEATRE

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Theatre_Speech_Dance/about/boxoffice.html

and at the Leeds Breezeway Box Office.

2 events: this weekend only!

Aside from SOLOFEST2010 which resumes tonight (Fri 7 May), don't forget to also catch:

I. Brown Frestival of Dance

May 6-9, 2010

Thurs-Sat @ 8pm

Sunday @ 2pm

In Stuart Theatre

Tickets available now at brown.edu/tickets or 401-863-2838.

For more information, check out brown.edu/taps.

And on Friday, stay after the show for a chance to talk to the

choreographers, dancers, and tech workers who made it happen!

They’ll discuss their process and answer audience questions.

The talkback will start immediately after the show on Friday night, onstage in Stuart Theatre!

II. WE ARE SAMURAI

Rites and Reason proudly presents
The World Premiere of
We Are Samurai
A new interactive site-specific experience at 50 John St
Written by Daria Marinelli '10
Directed by Erik Ehn and Daria Marinelli '10

To see one thing is to not see several other things.
Four Spaces.
Two Dead Cats.
The Story Repeats.
Revenge is in the Air.
The choice of what you see is yours.
WE ARE SAMURAI.

A reincarnated suburban tragedy spawning from the days of ancient samurai massacres,

Featuring the talents of:
Gerrit Thurston '13
Bari Berger '10
Madeleine Heil '13
Michelle Tan '10

Performances to be held at the design workshop at 50 John Street
May 6th 8:00
May 7th 8:00
May 8th 8:00
May 9th 5:00 and 8:00

FREE. Tickets released 30 minutes before showtimes.

SOLOFEST 2010 - now ongoing!

From the Solo Class of 2010, in the Strasberg Studio (enter via Waterman St, right by the Leeds breezeway):

You could say that we are by ourselves, only not. Or you could say that we are in solitude in solidarity. Or you could say that we are...

SOLO BUT NOT ALONE!

Dates and Times

Monday, May 3rd
7:00 and 10:00 Michelle Snyder in "...the tall grass at the edge of the village..."
8:30 and 11:30 Jing Xu in "Dragon Lady's Left the Room, Who's to do the Can-Can?"

Tuesday, May 4th
7:00 and 10:00 Mike Williams in "Silly Old Bear"
8:30 and 11:30 Dennis Kozee in "Fry Yourself Up Some Bologna"

Wednesday, May 5th
7:00 and 10:00 Beth Berger in "Blacklisted"
8:30 and 11:30 Matt Bauman in "What a Glorious Feelin'"

Thursday, May 6th
NOBODY in NOTHING

Friday, May 7th
7:00 and 10:00 Jaime Rosenstein in "Shut Up and Sing"
8:30 and 11:30 Chris Tyler in "Free B*tch"

Saturday, May 8th
2:00 and 8:30 Liz Morgan in "Deep $h*t"
3:30 and 7:00 Aubie Merrylees in "Feet First"

Sunday, May 9th
2:00 and 8:30 Sevita Qarshi in "American Daze, Afghan Nights"
3:30 and 7:00 Sarah Kay in "Square One"


COMMENCEMENT

Friday May 28:

11:30a - Liz
1:00p - Jaime
2:30p - Matt
4p - Aubie
5:30p - Sarah
7p - Mike

Saturday May 29:

11:00a - Sevita
12:30a - Jing
5:00p - Michelle
7:30p - Chris
10:30p - Beth
midnight - Dennis

Tickets will be given away outside Strasberg 30 minutes before showtime.

AUDITION reminder: Tooth of Crime

Auditions for S&B's first show in Fall 2010 begin TODAY!

The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard

Directed by Lowry Marshall

Thursday, April 29th from 7:00-10:30
Friday, April 30th from 2:00-5:00 with callbacks on Friday night

in LEEDS theatre

Read the full audition notice here. See you there!

TODAY: TA116 Day of Scenes!

Lowry Marshall's TA116 class presents:

"Four Fabulous Farces"

by Stephen Karam,
Joe Orton,
Diz White, et al,
and the Reduced Shakespeare Company.

It's all LIVE! IN THE STRASBERG Studio from noon to 2:00pm.
Come early for a great seat. Should be a laff riot!

It may not be apparent, but the Spring Day of Scenes proves it:
"Summer is a-comin' in! Sing Cuckoo!"

12-12:30
THE PRINCIPAL AND THE PEA
dir. Alex Bernson
asst. dir. Ariel Hudes
with
Alex Bernson- as THE Hot PTA Mom
Ted Cava- as the Principal
Deepali Gupta- as THE secretary
Ariel Hudes- as Lizzy, the 12 year old lesbian
Michael Wharton- Bea

12:30-1
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW
dir. Gordy Sayre
with
Sean Patrick McGowan
Dan Ricker
Katie Rhoads
Ellie Sywak

1-1:30
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)
dir. Paul Cooper
with
Kiana Alzate
Jared Bellot
Dan Gonon
Francesca Montanile
Ellen Shadburn

1:30 - 2
EL GRANDE DE COCA COLA
dir. Doug Eacho
musico direcion par Ned Risely
con
Bari Berger - MARIA
Rafael Cebrian - MIGUEL
Ria DiLullo - CONSUELA
Doug Eacho - PAPA PEPE HERNANDEZ
Ned Riseley - Y JUAN!

NO COMMENT at Rites & Reason

Brown University’s Dept. of Africana Studies’ Rites and Reason Theatre
Presents:

No Comment
A Research-to-Performance Method Play Developed in AFRI 1050: RPM Playwriting
by Kathleen Braine, ‘11
Directed by Connie Crawford

How does the news media report crimes of violent sexual assault against women?
A Play about Love, Power, and Reading Between the Lines

April 29 thru May 2, 2010
Thu., Fri. & Sat. @ 7pm, Sun. @ 3pm
155 Angell Street, Churchill House
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space
Brown University

AUDITION for The Tooth of Crime

The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard

S&B's first show of the '10-'11 season

HEY, ROCK STARS AND WANNABES!

GET YOUR SEMESTER OFF TO A VERY FAST START!

Auditions are coming up next week--faster than Mojo Root Force. Make no mistake about it, this Fall 2010 S&B show is going to kick some @&&. Set in an uncertain future when rock stars rule the country and battle to the finish for fame and territory, this CRAZY rock ‘n roll play by American legend Sam Shepard will rock you, sock you, knock you out and leave you for DEAD. Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n Roll by the baddest angel of them all.

Auditions are:

Thursday, April 29th from 7:00-10:30
Friday, April 30th from 2:00-5:00 with callbacks on Friday night

in LEEDS theatre

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Show up early for the best chance to cop an immortal shot. Come back on Friday if there’s time. No gratuitous nudity. Lotsa Rock ‘n Roll.

Nothing to prepare, but please try to read the play if you can. Copies in the Becker Library in Lyman Hall.

All parts, with the exception of Hoss (male) and Becky Lou (female), may be cast as either gender, but once cast, women will play women, men will play men! Only the pronouns will be changed as necessary. The Tooth of Crime will be cast without regard to ethnicity.

We’ll come back early to begin all day rehearsals on August 23rd. We have to get off the mark FAST on this one! A full week of 8-hour rehearsal days before classes start will get us to the September 23 Opening. We’ll close on October 3rd.

Also lookin’ for great rock and R&B musicians or bands AND serious dramaturg/AD interest.

Into the Woods @ PW

Get ready for...

Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim

Direction Alex Keegan '12

Musical Direction David Brown '12

Friday April 30- Monday May 3

Friday, Sunday, Monday at 8

Saturday at 5pm and 10pm

at the PW downspace.

Stay tuned for more details!

Freedom Train Productions is hiring!

Managing Producer (Consultant)

Freedom Train Productions, a black queer theatre company, seeks a highly motivated and independent arts professional with a background in theatre management. This is a part time consultant position beginning in Spring 2010 with an option to stay on permanently dependent on funding.

The Managing Producer will:

* Develop a three-year development and relationship building strategy for special events fundraising and individual, institutional, and government giving;
* Work with the artistic team to identify and support the theatre's response to immediate public and private giving opportunities;
* Work with the artistic team to design a public theatre training series and related earned income revenue strategy; and
* Assess the artistic and management theatre model that the theatre has built over its first three years and provide consultation toward opportunities moving forward.

This position, funded through our Stonewall Community Foundation award, is a great opportunity for a rising arts leader to play a crucial role in the growth of an emerging theatre.

Women, transgender, and people of color candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information and to apply please visit:

www.freedomtrainproductions.org/work

Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality

A lecture by

SUNY Professor Anita Gonzalez

TODAY, Friday, April 16th

3:00pm

211 Lyman Hall

This event is free and open to all!

Generously co-sponsored by Brown University’s Creative Arts Council, Department of Comparative Literature, Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, and Latino History Month.

Carmelita Tropicana

Cabaret a la Cubana

Saturday, April 10

10:00pm

Ashamu Dance Studio

After tonight's performance of The Cook

This event is FREE while space lasts!

THE COOK opens this Thursday

Get your tickets to The Cook!

http://www.brown.edu/tickets

THE COOK

by Eduardo Machado, directed by Kym Moore

Apr 8-11 and 15-18 in Leeds Theatre

8PM Thurs-Sat, 2PM Sun

Brown students, check your mailboxes for a $2-off coupon and bring it to the Box Office in Leeds breezeway to get your discounted ticket for the show. Freshmen get in FREE this Thursday!

Also this Thursday: look out for our Box Office on the (Main) Green where you can purchase your ticket and get some free Cuban coffee.

Keep watching this space for more info about talkbacks, related presentations and performances!

The Cook explores the personal, social and political cost of "Revolution." It is a social realist play that brings to mind Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. We observe the relationship of Gladys and Carlos over forty years beginning on the eve of Castro's rise to power in 1959. The rise and fall of Castro's regime is reflected in the character's relationships, making it a truly human story.

What happens to the dream once the dreamer is awakened? She goes to "work" in an attempt to reconstruct that which has almost been destroyed: the human spirit.

Please join us for this beautiful tale of struggle, love, family and survival.

Ivy Film Festival - Screenplay Readers Required!

The Ivy Film Festival is looking for Brown actors and actresses to read excerpts of winning student scripts at the 2010 Screenplay Brunch. The event will be held on the final day of the festival (Sunday, April 18th), and is the only opportunity that screenwriters have to showcase their work at the festival, so we're asking for your help in order to make the scripts sound as good as possible.

Volunteers will get free food at the brunch, as well as drink tickets at our after party, and tickets to one of our larger events (the schedule has not yet been finalized, but once it has been, the event is negotiable).

Anyone who is interested should email Lisa Weisdorf at iffscreenplay@gmail.com.

Thanks in advance!

Apply to the Sock & Buskin Board!

Below is the application for the S&B Board. If you're interested in applying, e-mail us (sockandbuskin@gmail.com) and we'll connect you with a board buddy who can walk you through the process, help with your application, and answer any questions you might have. We look forward to hearing from you!

Sock & Buskin
New Members Application: Spring 2010

Name:
Email:
Year:
Phone:

This application is due by 5pm EST on Tuesday, April 13th. Please email it to sockandbuskin@gmail.com. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to speak with/email anyone on the board. We will hold a Meet & Greet for prospective new members on Monday, March 22nd at 5:30pm in Lyman 005, and we encourage you to attend one or more of Sock & Buskin’s open meetings on Tuesdays from 12-1pm, also in Lyman 005.

1. Please list all experience that is relevant to S&B.

2. What draws you to theatre? By extension, what will you bring to S&B?

3. Please mention any ideas you have to improve S&B.

4. A significant portion of the job of S&B members is to decide the department's season for the following year. Please pick a show and speak in favor of its inclusion in the S&B season.

IMMEDIATE CASTING FOR READING AT RITES AND REASON

3 male voices are needed right away for a reading of a screenplay, Barsisa, at Rites & Reason Theatre.

Barsisa is an ancient Persian tale by Prof. Iraj Anvar of the Language Studies Center. The performance is this coming Tuesday, 3/23, at 7PM.

Rites & Reason is located in the Africana Studies Department, at 155 Angell St.

Interested actors should contact Sevita_Qarshi@brown.edu directly.

Audition for BTV

Tuesday, March 16th, 7-9 PM in Wilson 306
and Wednesday, March 17 7-9 PM in Wilson 106

Foxhunt, BTV's newest action/college/spy drama, is looking for a cast, and hence is holding auditions for actors. The show has some great characters, and is going to need a lot of great actors.

We'll be filming over the next two semesters. It should be a blast!

No experience or preparation necessary—but if you want to learn more about the show, check out
http://groups.google.com/group/foxhunt

If you can't make the audition times but would still like to try out, contact abe_pressman@brown.edu

LAST WEEKEND TO SEE LULU

LULU by Frank Wedekind

Directed by Spencer Golub

March 11-14, 2010
8pm Thurs-Sat, 2pm Sun in Stuart Theatre

TALKBACK SESSION with the cast after TONIGHT's performance (Thurs, 3/11).

Get your tickets at www.brown.edu/tickets

Brown students: if you haven't already, check your mailboxes for a $2-off coupon and present it to the box office in the Leeds Breezeway.

Read the BDH review here!

LULU follows the rise and fall of one dangerous and doomed creature: the sexually educated but passive woman who will go by any name her lovers wish to call her. From presiding over high society Parisian balls to selling herself in London basement rooms, Lulu ruins those around her, and is ruined, for love. Donald Lyons called LULU a “symphony – or rather a cacophony – of deotic sexual rhetorics….among the supreme masterpieces of nineteenth-century theatre.” Director Spencer Golub calls LULU “very nasty.”

An Eyes Wide Shut for an earlier century’s turn, LULU is a sex tragedy - or comedy - about how basic need and desire are made base by social convention, bourgeois morality and the fantasy life of the mind. Smart, dark, beautiful, twisted, tragic, haunting – you will not forget LULU, or Lulu.

CAC and FirstWorks present: Michael Moschen, Genius Illusionist

Later this week, Brown Creative Arts Council and FirstWorks welcome performing artist and MacArthur “Genius” grant winner Michael Moschen to campus for a two-day artist residency. Residency activities lead up to a public performance Saturday night at the VMA Arts & Cultural Center. Brown students are invited to attend on-campus residency activities for free, and a number of free tickets to Saturday’s performance are available to students through the participating departments!

MICHAEL MOSCHEN - BROWN CAC RESIDENCY SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 11, 5PM - 6:30PM
FILM SCREENING: In Motion with Michael Moschen
PANEL DISCUSSION to follow
Location: Smith-Buonanno 106
FREE - Pre-registration required*

Friday, March 12, 4PM - 5:30PM
MASTER CLASS with MICHAEL MOSCHEN
Location: McCormack Family Theater
FREE - Pre-registration required*

Saturday, March 13, 7:30PM
PERFORMANCE: Illusions in motion*
Be there as this master of illusion and MacArthur Genius Fellow wields the power of physics, math and art for an unforgettable performance experience. Stay after the show for an Artist Up
Close discussion.
Location: Veterans Memorial Auditorium (VMA Arts and Cultural Center)
1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence
Performance tickets available online at www.first-works.org or 401.421.ARTS
*BROWN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: Please visit the departments of Applied Math, Performance Studies, Physics, or Visual Arts to pre-register for residency events. A limited number of FREE TICKETS are available to students for the March 13 performance.

LULU opens TOMORROW - get your tickets!

LULU by Frank Wedekind

Directed by Spencer Golub

March 4-7 & 11-14, 2010
8pm in Stuart Theatre

Get your tickets at www.brown.edu/tickets

Brown students: check your mailboxes for a $2-off coupon and present it to the box office in the Leeds Breezeway.

Tomorrow night (Thurs), FRESHMEN GET IN FREE! Bring your Brown ID.

LULU follows the rise and fall of one dangerous and doomed creature: the sexually educated but passive woman who will go by any name her lovers wish to call her. From presiding over high society Parisian balls to selling herself in London basement rooms, Lulu ruins those around her, and is ruined, for love. Donald Lyons called LULU a “symphony – or rather a cacophony – of deotic sexual rhetorics….among the supreme masterpieces of nineteenth-century theatre.” Director Spencer Golub calls LULU “very nasty.”

An Eyes Wide Shut for an earlier century’s turn, LULU is a sex tragedy - or comedy - about how basic need and desire are made base by social convention, bourgeois morality and the fantasy life of the mind. Smart, dark, beautiful, twisted, tragic, haunting – you will not forget LULU, or Lulu.

The Rhythm of Change Festival

AFRICAN PERFORMANCE WEEKEND 2010

Presented by the Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
Co-sponsored by BRIO, Office of International Affairs, Brown Haiti Fund, and the CAC

Artists from Africa and the diaspora come together with community leaders and social initiatives to lead workshops, performances, and panels to look at performance's power to enact social change.

Workshops all day Saturday and Sunday
Performances Friday evening, Friday night, Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon.
Panels on Friday night and Sunday afternoon
Full list of events and workshops here: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Theatre_Speech_Dance/about/africanist.html

Tickets per workshop or event: $10 Brown / $15 Students

OF PARTICULAR NOTE:

Saturday, March 6th: 6pm, Ashamu Dance Studio
TOMMY DEFRANTZ, Performance Artist & Scholar, performs excerpts from ‘“Monk’s Mood”: A Performance Meditation on the Life and Music of Thelonious Monk’, exploring tap dance as a narrative form through Monk's life and music as well as personal relationships with his wife, Nellie, and the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, who befriended Monk and other jazz musicians of the bebop era. The work approaches his isolation, melancholy, creative genius, and ultimately his madness.

Sunday, March 7th: 5:30pm, Ashamu Dance Studio
THE INZIRAGUKANYA BURUNDI ENSEMBLE, comprised of resettled Burundi refugees, uniting the Burundian-Rwandan community after years of displacement in refugee settlement camps in East Africa. This performance hopes to raise funds for the purchase of traditional drums to preserve their culture and strengthen their community here in America; with THE HAITIAN CHOIR from St. Michael’s Church, headed by Elza Leger; and "BUS STOP:" A short play examining genocide and conflict in Rwanda.

AFRICA FOR HAITI Concert with Troupe Komee Josee from Mali, West Africa
Featuring New Works / World Traditions
ALL PROCEEDS TO HAITI RELIEF
Saturday, March 6th, 8:30pm Sayles Hall

Run crew needed for LULU

The production of LULU needs two more members to help as run crew!

LULU is directed by Spencer Golub and will be performed at Stuart Theatre. Below is the production schedule:

Stage Manager: Drew Madden

Design Runs:

Conflicts Deadline: FR 2/19
Orientation: FR 2/26 3-5pm
Tech: SU 2/28/10 11am-11pm w/1hour Dinner Break at 5 or 6pm
Tech MO 3/1/10 - WE 3/3/10 6pm-11pm

Perform: TH 3/4/10 - SA 3/6/10 6pm call with 8:00pm curtain
Perform: SU 3/7/10 12nn call with 2:00pm matinee

Warm Up Rehearsal on WE 3/10/10 TBD

Perform: TH 3/11/10-SA 3/13/10 6pm call with 8:00pm curtain
Perform: SU 3/14/10 12nn call with 2:00pm matinee W/Strike to Follow to 8pm

Puzzle Peace presents...

Storyteller Noa Baum, an Israeli who began a heartfelt dialogue with a Palestinian woman while living in the United States, weaves together their memories and their mothers' stories. She creates a moving testimony illuminating the complex and contradictory history and emotions that surround Jerusalem for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

Join us for a Q&A with Noa Baum following the performance.

FREE for Brown & RISD students
$5 for non-Brown or RISD students

Tuesday, March 2nd 2010
Time:	8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:	List Art Center 120

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Puzzle Peace is a student group working toward education and advocacy for peace and social justice in Israel and Palestine. Our approach is to be both critical and constructive in order to achieve these ends. Pro-Israel. Pro-Palestine. Pro-Peace.

Assistant Stage Managers wanted!

The production of The Cook is currently looking two ASMs.
The Cook will run from April 8-11 and 15-18. If you are interested in getting involved with the production process, would like to work with a faculty director and a great cast and crew, this is your chance!

Contact Maria_DiLullo@brown.edu for more information.

LULU opens next week!

LULU by Frank Wedekind

Directed by Spencer Golub

March 4-7 & 11-14, 2010
8pm in Stuart Theatre

Get your tickets at www.brown.edu/tickets

LULU follows the rise and fall of one dangerous and doomed creature: the sexually educated but passive woman who will go by any name her lovers wish to call her. From presiding over high society Parisian balls to selling herself in London basement rooms, Lulu ruins those around her, and is ruined, for love. Donald Lyons called LULU a “symphony – or rather a cacophony – of deotic sexual rhetorics….among the supreme masterpieces of nineteenth-century theatre.” Director Spencer Golub calls LULU “very nasty.”

An Eyes Wide Shut for an earlier century’s turn, LULU is a sex tragedy - or comedy - about how basic need and desire are made base by social convention, bourgeois morality and the fantasy life of the mind. Smart, dark, beautiful, twisted, tragic, haunting – you will not forget LULU, or Lulu.

Our Hands Are Sore From Praying

Come join the Rites and Reason Theatre for their first Spring 2010 production.

Written by a Jamaican born and raised in the United States (Janine Heath '10), Our Hands Are Sore From Praying is an analysis of the cultural and historical power structures that affect the lives of Jamaicans in the United States and of those who remain in Jamaica. "Hands" is an immigrants tale about about how easy it is to loose your roots and how difficult it can be to reclaim them. It tells the story of one man ruined by forces beyond his control, and another attempting to redeem his people.

Rites and Reason Theatre, 155 Angell Street

Performances:
Thursday - Saturday: Doors open @ 6:30, Play begins @ 7pm
Sunday: Doors open @ 2:30, Play begins @ 3pm
**Folkthought immediately after performance**

ONE WEEKEND ONLY!!
For information and reservations, please call (401) 863-3558.
Suggested Door Donation: $10

WAIT UNTIL DARK

PW Presents...

WAIT UNTIL DARK
by Frederick Knott
Directed by Lee Taglin

Wait Until Dark follows Susy Hendrix, a recently blind housewife, who is the target of three conmen searching for a heroin filled doll that they have tracked to her apartment. Susy becomes the victim of their cleverly construed deception, until she discovers their plot. She knows the only chance she has at survival is to level the playing field, bringing the action to a thrilling climax.

Performances in PW downspace
February 12th - 8pm
February 13th - 7pm & 11pm
February 14th - 8pm
February 15th - 8pm

Tickets available online at http://pw.brown.edu/

Tickets will also be available 1 hour before showtime at the door.

Shakespeare Workshop this Saturday

THIS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13th from 12-3pm in The Cave, Dave Demke will be leading a Shakespeare workshop, sponsored by Shakespeare on the Green and Sock & Buskin.

Dave Demke is the Associate Director of Training at Shakespeare and Company. He also is a designated Linklater voice teacher, text and movement teacher, actor, and director. The workshop is for 24 people so let SotG know immediately if you would be interested in a slot!
You will need to prepare a Shakespeare monologue (10-20 lines is fine).

This is an amazing opportunity to improve your language and movement skills, so again, email shakespeare.brown@gmail.com ASAP with your name if you want to take part!

Writing Is Live

The second week of Writing is Live starts THIS WEEK!

Tickets are FREE and available at writingislive.com, along with a full schedule and description of all plays and info about each MFA playwright.

Writing is Live is a festival of new plays featuring four thesis plays by MFA playwrights.

Writing is Live celebrates the diversity and strength of new theatrical voices while simultaneously expanding conventional understandings of text in performance.

PLEASE BE AWARE:

We Are Proud to Present… and O Guru Guru Guru will be playing at Pell Chafee Performance Center, NOT Leeds Theatre.

Lake Untersee and You for Me for You ARE at Leeds Theatre.

We Are Proud to Present a Presentation
About the Herero of Namibia,
Formerly Known as South West Africa,
From the German Sudwestafrika,
Between the Years 1884-1915
by Jackie Sibblies
Thursday, 2/11 @ 8 PM, Saturday, 2/13 @ 8 PM
& Sunday, 2/14 @ 12 PM
Pell Chafee Perf Center
87 Empire St.

LakeUntersee
by Joe Waechter
Thursday, 2/11 @ 8 PM, Saturday, 2/13 @ 8 PM
& Sunday, 2/14 @ 4 PM
Leeds Theatre
77 Waterman St.

O GURU GURU GURU
by Mallery Avidon
Friday, 2/12 @ 8 PM
Saturday, 2/13 @ 4 PM
& Sunday, 2/14 @ 4 PM
Pell Chafee Perf Center
87 Empire St.

You for Me for You
by Mia Chung
Friday, 2/12 @ 8 PM,
Saturday, 2/13 @ 4 PM
& Sunday, 2/14 @ 12 PM
Leeds Theatre
77 Waterman St.

AUDITION reminder

THE COOK

a recipe for revolution by Eduardo Machado

Directed by Kym Moore

A production of Sock & Buskin and the Dept. of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies.

First rehearsal: February 15th. Runs April 8th– 18th.

When?
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31st: 2 – 5 PM & 7 – 10 PM
Callbacks will be held in the Cave (Lyman 002) on Monday, February 1st from 7 PM – 10 PM

Where?
LEEDS THEATRE (inside Lyman Hall)

Seeking an ensemble of 5 (3W, 2M) to play the following roles:

Gladys, the cook, early 30's. Works/lives in the mansion of Adria Santana, a member of the Cuban aristocracy before the Revolution. Gladys is passionate about her food, independent minded, provincial and loyal to a fault.

Carlos, Gladys' husband, early 30's. Works for the Santana household as a chauffeur. He is passionately committed to "the Revolution.” His machismo acts as a shield against profound feelings of powerlessness and vulnerability.

Adria/Lourdes, 30’s. As Adria, a wealthy Cuban aristocrat. Elegant, well traveled, and fearful of the impending social change that promises to transform her life forever. As Lourdes, Adria's Cuban-American daughter. Upper middle-class, educated, and suspicious. She is her mother's daughter and resents the losses incurred by her family during the Revolution.

Elena/Rosa, 20’s. As Elena, Gladys' cousin. Accommodating, kind, and willing to "serve.” As Rosa, the illegitimate child of Carlos and his mistress. Bold, independent, and smart. She's been raised by Gladys and is obviously close to her. She is studying engineering, but longs to be a cook like her step-mother.

Julio, 20, Gladys' cousin. Lean and "beautiful." He has his own sense of style, wit, rebelliousness and a touch of the poetic.

* With the exception of the actresses playing Adria/Lourdes and Elena/Rosa, all actors can expect to work on aging 40 years as the play progresses.

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If you have a monologue, the casting board would like to see it. If not, sides from the play will be provided at auditions, which you may prepare with a partner if you’d like.

You are strongly encouraged to read the play in advance. Copies are available in the Becker Library (2nd floor – Lyman Hall) and by e-mailing sockandbuskin@gmail.com.

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PLEASE NOTE: If cast, you must return early from Spring Break for tech at 11 AM on Sunday, April 4th. Please be aware that Sunday, April 4th is Easter.

PLEASE NOTE: All plays cast under the supervision of the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University are cast without regard to race, color or ethnic identity except when such identity is central to the production's thematic content. Although this play takes place in Cuba, Cuba is a multi-racial society and this play will be cast accordingly. ALL students are encouraged to audition.

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ABOUT THE PLAY: It’s New Years Eve1959 and Fidel Castro is coming to power in Havana. Gladys, a provincial but passionate cook, prepares Baked Alaska in the kitchen of a wealthy Cuban household for an array of guests. Suddenly, her mistress announces that she and her bourgeois husband must flee the country. Gladys promises to protect the house until they return. Over the course of the next four decades, Gladys keeps her promise…but also discovers the high cost of her loyalty.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: Eduardo Machado was born in Cuba and came to the United States when he was nine. He is the author of over forty plays, including The Floating Island Plays, Once Removed, Stevie Wants To Play The Blues, A Burning Beach, Havana Is Waiting, and The Cook. They have been produced at many major regional theaters, as well as in Europe and Off-Broadway, including among others Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, The Actors Theater Of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, The Long Wharf Theater, The Williamstown Theater Festival, The Cherry Lane Theater, INTAR, America Place Theater and Hampstead Theatre in London. He is a member of the Actors Studio, The Ensemble Studio Theater, and an alumnus of New Dramatists. He has served on the boards of TCG, New Dramatists and Theatre for the New City. His plays have been published by the Theatre Communications Group and Samuel French. Currently, Mr. Machado is the Artistic Director of INTAR Theatre in New York City. He is also the Head of Playwriting in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. "Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home," a food memoir by Eduardo Machado and Michael Domitrovich, was just released in paperback by Gotham Press.

Dr. Floyd Gaffney Playwriting Competition

The University of California San Diego’s Theatre and Dance Department seeks from all enrolled undergraduate students submissions of previously unproduced, unpublished scripts highlighting the African-American experience in contemporary or historical terms. Adaptations from books and other forms not allowed.

A $1000 honorarium will be awarded to the winning playwright.

A staged reading, April 24, 2010, of the winning script in the
MFA Baldwin New Play Festival attended by twelve national theatre professionals.

Travel and housing cost to and from UC San Diego to be present for the performance.

Additional info can be found at http://theatre.ucsd.edu/playwritingcontest/

Casting Opportunity

Talent search for a potential new scripted drama series for ABC Family

The series is based on the popular teen novel, “HUGE” by Sasha Paley, Teleplay by Winnie Holzman (My So Called Life). It explores Plus Size teens at a weight management camp, and brings a very positive message to television about learning to accept yourself – no matter what your size.

I was a theatre student myself, once nominated for an Irene Ryan, and I am aware of the fabulous talent available in colleges across the United States. The unfortunate problem for plus size talent is that they are not afforded as many opportunities to flourish as a working actor.

I am desperate to reach out to your community, your regional directors and department heads in college theatre across the country, to uncover hidden gems for the series regulars on our show. There are seven plus size lead roles as well as many recurring and guest star parts throughout the series.

We need PLUS SIZE GIRLS AND GUYS who are teenagers OR can play high school age (most 18-24 year olds are able to play High School on Television.)

Students interested can simply log on to the ABC Family link below to upload a personality video, or receive information on submitting a tape through the mail. All personality videos will be watched by Barbara Stordahl (my casting partner) and myself. Contenders will then be selected and sent scripted material (sides) to upload a reading for a particular character. The top choices for each role will test at the Network. (As always, in a series regular audition, travel for actors located out of town would be arranged and paid for by the Network.)

Plus size young people interested in auditioning can log onto:

www.abcfamily.com/upcomingpilots upcomingpilots>

We are open to actors and non-actor/newcomers as well. These roles can be cast with talent from anywhere in the United States. The deadline for submitting is mid February. So they need to act quickly.

I have attached a FLIER in the hopes that you would send out an email to every college theatre program in the KCACTF.

(The red color prints out nicely from a black & white printer for posting on campuses.)

Both Barbara Stordahl and I have been working in casting for over thirteen years. Our credits are listed on the Internet Movie Data Base – www.imdb.com . Perhaps that will help give you a sense of our background in television.

These are our links to the Imdb site:
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0855943/
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0832429/


Please let me know if there are any questions I can answer. Thank you for helping us spread the word!

Angela Terry
Stordahl & Terry Casting, Los Angeles

Performance opportunity

Concert/Cultural Show for Suicide Prevention Awareness

Sponsored by the Brown student group, Student Volunteers for the Samaritans of Rhode Island (SVTSRI)

Below is a letter from Bruce Gutierrez and the Student Volunteers for the Samaritans of Rhode Island (SVTSRI). http://mygroups.brown.edu/Community?action=getOrgHome&orgID=914

If you have any questions or would like to participate, please contact Bruce at Samaritans.brown@gmail.com by January 25^th.

For information on the Samaritans of RI please visit the following link http://www.samaritansri.org/

Hi, my name is Bruce Gutierrez and I'm the president of the Student Volunteers for the Samaritans of Rhode Island (SVTSRI). Since 1977, the Samaritans of Rhode Island, a non-profit and non-religious organization, has worked in the community to raise awareness of suicide prevention and depression. The Samaritans offers a 24- hour listening line as well as a support group for those individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide. The 24-hour listening line is available for those who are depressed, suicidal, or simply have no one to talk to. Although an official university club did not previously exist, Brown students have been hotline volunteers for many years. However, by the end of Fall Semester 2008, the Student Volunteers for the Samaritans of Rhode Island officially became a Category I club and eventually achieved Category II status.

One of the main goals of SVSTRI is to increase campus awareness of suicide prevention and depression. The executive board has decided to organize a concert-like event in which various performance groups (a cappella, dance, cultural, etc.) will perform, as a way to raise awareness. As of right now, the tentative date for the event is March 12th and the exact location is to be determined (I am trying to reserve Salomon or Sayles). The Samaritans would really appreciate it if your group could perform at this event. If your group is interested in performing, please let me know and email samaritans.brown@gmail as soon as possible. We would greatly appreciate it if you respond by January 25th.

Thank you very much for your time! I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best,
Bruce Gutierrez '11
SVTSRI President

AUDITION!

THE COOK

a recipe for revolution by Eduardo Machado

Directed by Kym Moore

A production of Sock & Buskin and the
Dept. of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies.

First rehearsal: February 15th. Runs April 8th– 18th.

When?
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31st: 2 – 5 PM & 7 – 10 PM
Callbacks will be held in the Cave (Lyman 002) on Monday, February 1st from 7 PM – 10 PM

Where?
LEEDS THEATRE (inside Lyman Hall)

Seeking an ensemble of 5 (3W, 2M) to play the following roles:

Gladys, the cook, early 30's. Works/lives in the mansion of Adria Santana, a member of the Cuban aristocracy before the Revolution. Gladys is passionate about her food, independent minded, provincial and loyal to a fault.

Carlos, Gladys' husband, early 30's. Works for the Santana household as a chauffeur. He is passionately committed to "the Revolution.” His machismo acts as a shield against profound feelings of powerlessness and vulnerability.

Adria/Lourdes, 30’s. As Adria, a wealthy Cuban aristocrat. Elegant, well traveled, and fearful of the impending social change that promises to transform her life forever. As Lourdes, Adria's Cuban-American daughter. Upper middle-class, educated, and suspicious. She is her mother's daughter and resents the losses incurred by her family during the Revolution.

Elena/Rosa, 20’s. As Elena, Gladys' cousin. Accommodating, kind, and willing to "serve.” As Rosa, the illegitimate child of Carlos and his mistress. Bold, independent, and smart. She's been raised by Gladys and is obviously close to her. She is studying engineering, but longs to be a cook like her step-mother.

Julio, 20, Gladys' cousin. Lean and "beautiful." He has his own sense of style, wit, rebelliousness and a touch of the poetic.

* With the exception of the actresses playing Adria/Lourdes and Elena/Rosa, all actors can expect to work on aging 40 years as the play progresses.

***

If you have a monologue, the casting board would like to see it. If not, sides from the play will be provided at auditions, which you may prepare with a partner if you’d like.

You are strongly encouraged to read the play in advance. Copies are available in the Becker Library (2nd floor – Lyman Hall) and by e-mailing sockandbuskin@gmail.com.

***

PLEASE NOTE: If cast, you must return early from Spring Break for tech at 11 AM on Sunday, April 4th. Please be aware that Sunday, April 4th is Easter.

PLEASE NOTE: All plays cast under the supervision of the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University are cast without regard to race, color or ethnic identity except when such identity is central to the production's thematic content. Although this play takes place in Cuba, Cuba is a multi-racial society and this play will be cast accordingly. ALL students are encouraged to audition.

***

ABOUT THE PLAY: It’s New Years Eve1959 and Fidel Castro is coming to power in Havana. Gladys, a provincial but passionate cook, prepares Baked Alaska in the kitchen of a wealthy Cuban household for an array of guests. Suddenly, her mistress announces that she and her bourgeois husband must flee the country. Gladys promises to protect the house until they return. Over the course of the next four decades, Gladys keeps her promise…but also discovers the high cost of her loyalty.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: Eduardo Machado was born in Cuba and came to the United States when he was nine. He is the author of over forty plays, including The Floating Island Plays, Once Removed, Stevie Wants To Play The Blues, A Burning Beach, Havana Is Waiting, and The Cook. They have been produced at many major regional theaters, as well as in Europe and Off-Broadway, including among others Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, The Actors Theater Of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, The Long Wharf Theater, The Williamstown Theater Festival, The Cherry Lane Theater, INTAR, America Place Theater and Hampstead Theatre in London. He is a member of the Actors Studio, The Ensemble Studio Theater, and an alumnus of New Dramatists. He has served on the boards of TCG, New Dramatists and Theatre for the New City. His plays have been published by the Theatre Communications Group and Samuel French. Currently, Mr. Machado is the Artistic Director of INTAR Theatre in New York City. He is also the Head of Playwriting in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. "Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home," a food memoir by Eduardo Machado and Michael Domitrovich, was just released in paperback by Gotham Press.