Theater I: Our Many Voices
A play Reading and TalkBack Series
OUR MANY VOICES is TeatroStageFest's ongoing series of staged readings featuring the most renowned cutting-edge authors in contemporary Latin American Theater.
Argentina
La Omisión de la familia Coleman
Photo courtesy of the artist
Location:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
CUNY Grad Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Subway: B, D, F, M, N, Q, R Trains to 34 St. - Herald Square
Claudio Tolcachir will be leading an acting workshop. Read more
TICKETS
This event is free. First come, first serve.
Claudio Tolcachir's
The Coleman Family's Omission
Monday, June 25, 2012 @ 7:30pm
A Staged Reading directed by Susana Tubert
Susana Tubert, Producing Executive Director of TeatroStageFest, directs a staged reading of Tolcachir's improvisationally-built drama about a family circle in which violence gradually replaces speech.
The TalkBack to follow will include the playwright and co-translators Prof. Jean Graham-Jones, CUNY, who recently published the translation of Tolcachir's plays, including 2005’s La Omisión de la familia Coleman. This show has been a sold-out hit since its premiere in Buenos Aires, and no conversation about the vibrant Argentinian theatrical scene can be complete without it.
Claudio Tolcachir is an acclaimed multi-talented performer, director, professor and playwright from Argentina, who has been recognized globally as one of the top innovators in the vibrant independent theater movement of Buenos Aires. In 1998 he founded Timbre 4 – at once a theater, a school, a company and a collective workshop – where he directed Chau Misterix by Mauricio Kartún; Jean Anouilh’s Euridice; Jamón del diablo, cabaret, based upon texts by Roberto Arlt; Aristofanes’ Lisistrata; as well as his own plays La omisión de la familia Coleman, Tercer cuerpoand El viento en un violin. In recent years, he has also directed plays by other authors, such as: Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Tracy Letts’ August, and Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. Claudio has has been recognized with every major Argentine theater award – including the ACE, Clarín, Maria Guerrero, Teatros del Mundo and Teatro XXI Prizes. His work has been seen extensively at international theaters and festivals, including TeatroStageFest in New York, where La omisión de la familia Coleman and Tercer cuerpo were both featured productions in 2007 and 2010 respectively. Other festivals that have featured Timbre 4 productions include: Teatro Español and Teatro Arriaga in Madrid; Festival d’Automne in Paris in 2010-2011, Mirada Festival in Brazil. His plays have been staged in more than twenty countries and translated to six languages. This marks the U.S. premiere reading in English of The Coleman Family's Omission.
Past events of TeatroStageFest 2012’s Year-Round Programming
Show dates
April, 19 @ 7:00 pm
Venue: Little Theatre at King Hall, Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY 11367. Talkback & Reception with Playwright Kara Hartzler, Actors and Director
Tickets: FREE!
April 28th @ 3:00 pm
Venue:
Jackson Heights Library Meeting Room Space 3551 81st Street Jackson Heights, NY 11372
Talkback to Follow
Tickets: FREE!
No Roosters in the Desert
Written by Kara Hartzler
Directed by Mariana Carreno King
Presented by The Queens College Center for Ethnic Racial & Religious Understanding, The Kupferberg Center for the Arts & The Immigration Working Group at Queens College
In collaboration with TeatroStageFest
‘No Roosters in the Desert’ is the story of four women who attempt to make the harrowing journey through the desert from Mexico into Arizona. The women, who come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, slowly expose their deepest fears and aspirations as they progress. The playwright utilizes original field interviews and traditional folk stories in order to weave her tale.
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Jenn Colella and Jimmy Smits star in Deadline
Photo: Gustavo Mirabile
March 26, 2012 @ 7:30PM
The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
The Pershing Square Signature Center
480 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Deadline
Written and Directed by Sabina Berman
Starring Jimmy Smits and Jenn Colella
Presented in partnership with The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at CUNY Graduate Center
About Deadline... A renowned publisher of a major newspaper has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. He must name his successor to the newspaper's concerned Board. It's Christmas Eve and a blizzard is raging outdoors. He summons to his office one of the two candidates he is considering for the job: Miky, the star editor he trained at the paper twenty years prior. Throughout the course of the night, an inevitable collision of adrenalin and testosterone ensues. Deadline is about what we don't dare admit about sex and gender when faced with the competition for power and control. The staged reading was followed by a TalkBack with Sabina Berman, the original play's translator Lisa Dillman, and Prof. Jean Graham-Jones, CUNY.
Sabina Berman is one of Mexico´s most prominent and multifaceted writers. Playwright, story-teller, essayist, film and theater director. Her novel ME (Diving into the heart of the world) appeared in 2011 in Spanish and has been published in 11 languages. Ms. Berman's plays have been produced in Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Canada and the United States. This event marked the first reading of Deadline in the U.S.A.
Jimmy Smits' television credits include his Emmy-nominated guest starring role in Showtime's Dexter, The West Wing, NYPD Blue and L.A. Law. Smits' film career includes blockbusters such as Star Wars: Episode II and III. He was most recently seen in Mother and Child and Backyard. His NY theatre credits include Anna in the Tropics and God of Carnage on Broadway, and the Shakespeare in the Park's production of Much Ado about Nothing, among many others. Jimmy Smits was TeatroStageFest 2010's Spokesperson.
Jenn Colella has been a familiar face in the New York theatre scene since her starring role as Sissy in Broadway's Urban Cowboy, for which she received an Outer Critic's Circle Award Nomination. Since then she has appeared in Broadway's High Fidelity, starred in the world premiere of The Times They Are A-Changin', and recently performed in Beautiful Girls.
Show Dates
In Queens:
March 3 @ 7:30PM and March 4 @ 2PM
Venue:Goldstein Theater at Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd
Flushing, NY
In Manhattan:
March 5 @ 7PM. Talkback immediately after the 7PM performance, featuring LEO's playwright, director and Joanne Pottlizer. Moderator: Susana Tubert, TeatroStageFest Exec.Dir.
Venue: Playwrights Horizons Theater 416 West 42nd Street
Leo
Written by Rosa Laborde
Directed by Susan Einhorn
Presented in Partnership with Kubferberg Center for the Arts and Culture and the Department of Drama, Theatre, and Dance at Queens College.
Santiago, Chile. 1973. As the country falls to fascism and corruption, three adolescent friends caught up in a romantic triangle explore their views on sexual identity, politics, and art. Their journey mirrors the country's transformation from President Allende's socialist idealism to the harsh realities of Pinochet's dictatorship.
"Perhaps the most intriguing element of the play is the passion of youth. Forever dreaming of a better tomorrow; perpetually caught up in a world of change." ~ J. Allystair, TorontoStage.com
Leo was nominated for the Dora Mayor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in Toronto and the Governor General´s Award for Drama. Director Susan Einhorn has staged over 70 productions and specializes in developing new works for the theater. She is head of the Acting Program at Queens College.
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