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PLAYWRIGHTS' WEEK
2007
presented in partnership
September 26 -October 1
Meet the Writers
September 26 @ 8pm
Festvial Readings
September 27 - October 1
South Asian Sampler:
Celebrate Indo-American Arts Council's 10th Anniversary
with new scenes from South Asian Alumni writers.
October 1 @ 8pm
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All events held in the Lark Studio
939 Eighth Avenue (bet. 55 & 56 Streets) NYC, 10019
What is Playwrights Week?
If you'd like to make reservations by phone,
please call 212-246-2676 x.24 |
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Wednesday, September 26 @ 8pm
Meet the 2007 Playwrights' Week Playwrights! Hear the writers read excerpts from their work and stay afterwards to mingle with the playwrights at our opening night reception.
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Thursday, September 27 @ 4pm
In this surreal piece, a young American soldier goes off to a war in the Middle East on what he believes will be a short detour on his route to college, made possible by the U.S. Army. Instead he finds himself in the midst of a complex occupation. His personal history of violence and the history of violence in the country he is fighting for and against collide as his life and the lives of his fellow soldiers are irrevocably changed.
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Thursday, September 27 @ 8pm
Could a plague really come? Two unassuming health officials investigate reports of an outbreak in a small town. No one could have anticipated what they find. A wildly, comical, thinly veiled look at fear, anxiety and talking birds in America.
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Friday, September 28 @ 4pm
About a diverse group of friends who meet regularly to watch Al Jazeera and discuss the situation in the Middle East. When one of them receives an mysterious package of red pistachios from Syria, it triggers a series of events which threatens their friendships and sense of community.
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Friday, September 28 @ 8pm
A teenage girl dares to challenge the laws of physics by blowing her dad out the 73rd floor of his office tower and interviewing him as he falls. While Dot's 15 year old world is coming crashing down, she's bound and determined to take everyone else along for the ride - all in 6 seconds.
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Saturday, September 29 @ 4pm
A tale of spiritual and political turmoil set against a backdrop of New York dating angst, this play traces the hilarious journey and jihad of a young American-Muslim as she traverses the minefields of identity and love.
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Saturday, September 29 @ 8pm
Inspired by the 2003 murder of a lesbian teenager in Newark, NJ, She Like Girls is the story of two inner-city high school girls who fall in love in a dangerously homophobic climate.
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Sunday, September 30 @ 4pm
Explores the lives and friendship of Bert Williams and George Walker, African-American entertainers who create blackface roles so rich and affecting that they can neither surpass nor escape them. Bert's signature song "Nobody" is recorded on cylinders that sell in the thousands, but the cost is high: In becoming somebody, he has become nobody.
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Sunday, September 30 @ 8pm
A tragic farce in which five friends [hopefully] survive the typical high school experience: algebra, fluctuating sexuality, eating disorders, groping teachers, guns, school bombings, nuclear fallout, and, most dangerous of all, love.
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Monday, October 1 @ 4pm
Stifled by a city in rapid decline, siblings Tommy, Mark and Annie don't have much to do but play video games and listen to music until one violent night changes everything. Their collective longing, frustrations and desires take on a haunting melody, as each offers up their own tragic verse.
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SOUTH ASIAN SAMPLER-
Hear new scenes from South Asian alumni writers in celebration of the Indo-American Arts Council's 10th Anniversary
scenes directed by Giovanna Sardelli
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Monday, October 1 @ 8pm
hosted by the Indo American Arts Council
Join us in celebrating Lark and Indo-American Arts Council's 8 year partnership, plus the 10th Anniversary of IAAC. The reception will feature excerpts from past South Asian Lark Alumni writers and the announcement of the 2007 IAAC Playwright-in-Residence.
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How do I submit a play for Playwrights' Week 2008? Click Here!
How do I apply to be a reader for Playwrights' Week 2008? Click Here! |
Playwrights' Week is made possible in part through the
National Endowment for the Arts.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Our lead partner organization of Playwrights' Week is the Indo-American Arts Council.
The official beverage sponsor of Playwrights' Week is General Bilimoria Wines.
Additionally, Lark's programming is generously supported by Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, American Theatre Wing, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Birch Foundation, Carnegie Coporation, The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, The Dramatists Guild Fund, The John Golden Fund, FONCA (Mexico Fund for Arts and Culture), The Greenwall Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Lucille Lortel Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State arts agency.
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