Kennedy Center Announces Lineup for New Visions/New Voices Festival
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced the lineup of companies that will be participating in the 11th New Visions/New Voices festival, May 21- 23. This biennial event is dedicated to developing new plays and musicals written for young people and their families.
Programming will include Minneapolis’ Tony Award winning The Children’s Theater Company presenting an adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel The Scarecrow and His Servant; The Flea and the Professor (Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company), adapted from a Hans Christian Andersen story; Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Fly (Milwaukee’s First Stage Children’s Theatre), based on the work of artist Della Wells; Promised Land of Balalatladi (Johannesburg’s Market Theatre), which has been developed from South African folk lore; The Epic of Sunjata (Princeton’s McCarter Theatre), which is based on East Asian history and literature; The Very True and Unusual Life of Chonk (Melbourne’s Real TV), adapted from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings; and The Edge of Peace (Seattle Children’s Theatre), a third installment in a trilogy of plays by Billy Seago.
During the festival, playwrights, directors, music directors, composers, and actors will work to develop these projects. After revisions, rewrites, and rehearsals, the pieces are presented as rehearsed readings during the three-day national conference for theater professionals, educators, and others interested in the field.
