Summer Shorts 5
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 4, 2011
Closed Sep 3, 2011
Opened Aug 4, 2011
Closed Sep 3, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Featured in Summer Shorts 5 will be eight World Premieres from some of New York's finest established and emerging playwrights, including: In This, Our Time... by Alexander Dinelaris (Zanna Don't, Still Life), directed by J.J. Kandel; Triple Trouble With Love written & directed by Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy, Sister Mary Ignatius…, The Marriage of Bette and Boo), Some Women In Their Thirties Simply Start To Fall by Tina Howe (Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances, Pride's Crossing), directed by Billy Hopkins; The New Testament by Neil LaBute (reasons to be pretty, Fat Pig), directed by Dolores Rice; The Green Book written & directed by Will Scheffer (HBO's Big Love); Clap Your Hands by Keith Reddin (Rum and Coke, Life During Wartime, Frame 312), directed by Billy Hopkins; Lessons For An Unaccustomed Bride by José Rivera (Oscar nominee for The Motorcycle Diaries, OBIE winner for References To Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot), directed by Jen Wineman, and Carrie & Francine by 17-year-old Ruby Spiegel, directed by Laura Barnett.
Summer Shorts returns for another summer of new American one-acts featuring original plays by the country's top playwrights. Representing some of today's best writing, directing and acting talents, Summer Shorts celebrates theatre, summer and the short form. The festival's two separate series offer a diverse range of voices, styles, and subject matter. Summer Shorts 5 offers eight world premiere one-act plays, in two separate evenings. The two series will run in rotating repertory. The New York Post declared "one-act shorts fit nicely in summer heat!"
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
Summer Shorts 5: Series A, now at 59E59 Theatres, has a particularly impressive lineup of playwrights, with new plays by Christopher Durang and Neil LaBute. Unfortunately, the program is a mixed bag at best, with the veterans being outclassed by a 17-year-old playwright.
The best play of the evening comes first: Ruby Rae Spiegel proves to have such a fine ear for dialogue that we're instantly drawn into the insecure lives of the title characters in Carrie and Francine (who are played by Lydia Weintraub and Louise Sullivan, respectively) as they prepare for a Bar Mitzvah. In a few short scenes, we see them grapple with their budding sexuality in ways that are both endearing and disturbing. S[...]
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Chris Kompanek on Aug 11, 2011
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Like Series A, the quartet of plays that make up Series B of Summer Shorts 5, now at 59E59 Theatres, provide both pleasure and disappointment.
Jose Rivera's Lessons for an Unaccustomed Bride begins promisingly enough with a spirited exchange between a young Christian woman (Shirley Rumierk) and the town witch (Socorro Santiago) who she's known since she was little and is now turning to for advice on her impending marriage. This unlikely exchange is engaging until the conversation turns to the existence of God. Rivera doesn't bring anything new to the discussion, and his play quickly fizzles out.
Tina Howe's Some Women In Their Thirties Simply Start to Fall, which comes next, is structured[...]