Words Afire Festival 2013
2013 Words Afire!
Festival of New Plays
Gregory Moss, Artistic Director
Caroline Prugh, Associate Artistic Director
Jump to: Fadeaway |Disposable Boys|The Invasive Kind|The Menu|Directed Reading:Carson Lake|
The University of New Mexico’s Department of Theatre and Dance is pleased to announce the 13th Annual Words Afire! Festival of New Plays running April 11 through 20, 2013, in The Experimental Theatre on UNM’s Main Campus. In addition to three dynamic fully staged world premieres written by graduating MFA students in UNM’s award winning Dramatic Writing Program, Zee Eskeets, Kevin Elder and Christina Hjelm, this year’s Festival closes with a celebration of the program’s founder Jim Linnell as Tricklock Company brings his passionate and provocative book of poetry, The Menu, to the stage. In addition to these April performances, on February 8th and 9th, audiences will have the chance to preview a future production with a staged reading of a new play by Second Year MFA student Barney Lopez.
The festival provides audiences the opportunity to play a vital role in the continuing development of these exciting new voices, catching them as they step from their academic program towards the professional stage, supported by an outstanding team of directors, actors, designers, and technicians.
Fadeaway
By Zee Eskeets
Directed by Joe Alberti
Jason Black is stuck. Since the death of his sister he has only been certain of one thing: he will never leave Gallup, New Mexico. His only comfort is his beautiful and talented girlfriend Kai, but as he struggles to hold on to her, he begins to lose his grip on reality, leading to deadly consequences.
Experimental Theatre
April 11 and 13 at 7:30pm, April 20 at 2pm
Tickets $15 General, $12 Seniors and UNM Faculty, $10 UNM Staff and All Students, Available at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858 or 1-877-664-8661,
or online at www.unmtickets.com
Disposable Boys
By Kevin Elder
Directed by Rafael Gallegos
Two brothers growing up in a trailer park with their drug addled father are looking to find a way out. Disposable Boys explores the effects of class, gender identity, and calamitous drug addiction on the integrity of one American family.
Experimental Theatre
April 12 and 18 at 7:30pm, April 14 at 2pm
Tickets $15 General, $12 Seniors and UNM Faculty, $10 UNM Staff and All Students, Available at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858 or 1-877-664-8661,
or online at www.unmtickets.com
The Invasive Kind
By Christina Hjelm
Directed by Julia Thudium
When her mother dies, the teenage Ariel runs off to a motel in the wild Florida Everglades with a plan to reconnect her broken family. But her sister Rebecca threatens to destroy the reunion by unleashing a childhood secret as vicious as the scaled beasts lurking within the swamps.
Experimental Theatre
April 13 at 2pm, April 14 at 6pm and April 19 at 7:30pm
Tickets $15 General, $12 Seniors & UNM Faculty, $10 Students & UNM Staff
For more information check http://theatre.unm.edu or call the Theatre Office at 277-4332
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858,
The Menu featuring Tricklock Company
Written by Jim Linnell
Directed by Elsa Menéndez
Composition/Original Sound Score by Casey Mráz
Movement Direction by Jennifer Predock-Linnell
Lighting, Scenographer/videographer David Torres
Written over the course of two years, Tricklock Company brings Jim Linnell’s passionate and provocative book of poetry, The Menu, to the stage. Why are we here? Where are the signs that make a life? Do we find happiness or are we taken? Is it promised us? Who will love without falter, tell the story? With a haunting original soundtrack, Tricklock takes you on a journey following a unique map of men, women, love, death and everything in between.
April 20 at 6:00pm, April 25, 26, 27, May 2, 3, 4 at 7:30pm and
April 21, 28, May 5 at 2pm
Experimental Theatre
Tickets $15 General, $12 Seniors & UNM Faculty, $10 Students & UNM Staff
For more information check http://theatre.unm.edu or call the Theatre Office at 277-4332
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858,
or online at www.unmtickets.com
STAGED READING
Carson Lake
By Barney Lopez
Directed by Dodie Montgomery
Free love gets complicated when Pedra makes an advance on her stepson after her husband goes missing on a bender. Carson Lake is a trailer park tragedy inspired by the Greek story of Hippolytus, a poetic story of betrayal, passion and the loss of tradition in a dusty, dark and violent corner of America.
Experimental Theatre
February 8 and 9, 7:30pm
ADMISSION FREE
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