| Tomorrow 8-26/Tamara Tunie, Blair Brown, Laura San Giacomo join BNW's 19th amendment show/monologues from women 55-85/on Zoom | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:40 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
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| Marking the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote… Brave New World Rep Presents OVER AND ABOVE: Women Over 55 Speak August 26th, 7- 8pm on Zoom 18 Original Monologues Give Voice to Women aged 55-85 Participants Include Emily Mann, Blair Brown, Laura San Giacomo and Tamara Tunie JUST ADDED***Special Musical Guest: Blues Legend Gaye Adegbalola Brooklyn, NY – August 25 – In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, Brooklyn’s Brave New World Rep will present Over and Above: Women Over 55 Speak, August 26th, 7pm on Zoom. The one hour program will showcase 18 original short monologues penned by a diverse group of women writers over 55, and one male contemporary – and performed and directed by women of the same age. OVER AND ABOVE addresses the invisibility felt by women over the age of 55, says BNW producing artistic director/co-curator Claire Beckman. “During weekly Zoom cocktails with four college friends from Carnegie-Mellon University’s Department of Drama, circa 1984, we found ourselves asking why we, as a society, put brilliant women out to pasture when they hit the sell-by-date of 55? We decided to put out a call to older women writers. The responses were overwhelming and humbling. We realized we had opened a treasure chest. The submitted monologues were extraordinary, and why wouldn’t they be? These women have lived. It was challenging to keep our presentation to under an hour.” Beckman invited the four friends and theater professionals – Sandra Bargman, Teri Brown, Leslie Ellis and Laura Patinkin – to partner with her as co-curators and directors. The group also made the decision to amend the whites-only legacy of the 19th amendment to ensure women of color are amply represented. And while they wanted to give the floor to women, they also decided to hear one man’s perspective on older women. Participation from notable writers, actors, and directors was enlisted, including: Emily Mann - Award-winning director/playwright/screenwriter, artistic director of McCarter Theatre Center; plays include “Having Our Say” and “Gloria: A Life” Blair Brown - Film/Theater/TV (“Days and Nights of Molly Dodd”) Laura San Giacomo - Film/TV (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Pretty Woman, Just Shoot Me, Saving Grace) Tamara Tunie - Film/Theater/TV best known for roles as Jessica Griffin on As the World Turns, and as medical examiner Melinda Warner in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Gaye Adegbalola - Blues Legend, activist, lead singer & songwriter for Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women Says Emily Mann who wrote and directed a monologue read by Blair Brown, “I am honored to be a part of OVER AND ABOVE. First, because women over 55 need to be heard from; we rarely are. Second, I would do anything Claire Beckman asked me to do. I believe in her theater, and I believe in her. Giving voice to older women at this moment in time brings hard earned wisdom into the national discourse.” Adds Laura Patinkin (co-curator/actor in one monologue/director of four), that although the project began as old friends discussing the lack of material for women of a certain age, “it ended up not being about what is lacking, but rather the abundance of what we have when we women gather creatively, intellectually, spiritually and emotionally.” Summing it up, writer Germaine Shames who contributed two monologues says, “What no one wants to acknowledge, but what every woman over the age of 55 experiences, is creeping invisibility. Unseen, undesired and undervalued, mature women offer their wholeness and lucidity to a blindered society that relegates them to the margins. Events like Brave New World Rep's OVER AND ABOVE allow mature writers to throw off imposed stereotypes and declare, We’re still here, as witty, wise, fierce, fearless, sexy and badass as ever.” Brave New World Rep Presents OVER AND ABOVE: Women Over 55 Speak August 26th at 7pm A Benefit to Support the artists of BNW in the time of COVID Suggested Donation $15 ***Ticket Information HERE: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1029996 OVER AND ABOVE Line-up* “Triple M’am” by Lucy Wright Read by Sandra Bargman and Directed by Leslie Ellis “Sycorax” by Cheryl Davis Read by Sandra Mills Scott and Directed by Teri Brown “The Last Minute” by Jane Cafarella Read by Leslie Ellis and Directed by Laura Patinkin “Blood” by Elizabeth Diggs Read by Emily McCully and Directed by Claire Beckman “Edna Mae Unpacks Her Life” by Robin Rice Read by Laura Patinkin and Directed by Sandra Bargman “My Grandmother and the Beach Boy” by Germaine Shames Read by Claire Beckman and Directed by Laura Patinkin “I Dreamed I was Brigitte Macron” by Germaine Shames Read by Cynthia Babak and Directed by Leslie Ellis “Bath Time” by Kris Thompson & Synaptic Fires by Lee Phenner Read by Teri Brown and Directed by Claire Beckman “Watching My Mother Grow Old” Written and directed by Anthony McKay Directed by Laura Patinkin “They Call Me Jolene But My Real Name Is Aunt Helen” by Deanne Stillman Read by Sandra Williams and Directed by Sandra Bargman “Staying Home” by Emily Mann Read by Blair Brown and Directed by Emily Mann “For Fong Lee” Written and read by Sharon Omi Directed by Teri Brown “Guten Morgan” by Cynthia Arsenault Read by Anita Hollander and Directed by Leslie Ellis “Like Knives” by Jennifer O’Grady Read by Laura Sangiacomo and Directed by Claire Beckman “Something Different” by Jane Cafarella Read by Caroline Ryburn and Directed by Sandra Bargman “Going Nowhere” by Rose-Mary Harrington Read by Marjorie Johnson and Directed by Laura Patinkin “The Pitch” by Lisa Langford Read by Tamara Tunie and Directed by Teri Brown "Big Ovaries Baby" Written & Performed by Gaye Adegbalola ?Published by Hot Toddy Music, ASCAP, adm by Eyeball Music, BMI Courtesy of Alligator Records *subject to change in order # # # About Brave New World Repertory Theatre For the past 15 years, Brooklyn's Brave New World Rep has carved out a site-specific niche presenting re-envisioned classics and works by Brooklyn playwrights. Recent work includes free performances of Elmer Rice's Street Scene, where the company closed off a street in Park Slope, using a tenement building and adjacent street as the stage; Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge presented in 2018 on the Waterfront Barge Museum in Red Hook; and The Plantation, a bold new adaptation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, a post-Civil War story set after emancipation but before the onset of Jim Crow. This immersive production was performed in The Commanding Officer's House on Governors Island, August 31-September 24, 2017. Brave New World Rep has earned a reputation of delivering unexpectedly immersive works to communities all around Brooklyn, beginning with its 2005 production of To Kill a Mockingbird, presented on the front porches and sidewalks of a tree-lined Ditmas Park street. |
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