About This Show
The Winter 2005 Writer/Director’s Forum is a festival of workshop productions of plays featuring new writers and directors. It is part of the company’s mission to reflect life on the stage with truth and theatricality while exploring a female vision/aesthetic. The festival is held twice a year at The Looking Glass Theatre. This year’s winter festival features the work of seven emerging female directors tackling both classic and new works. Throughout the three-week festival, directors will present a wide range of styles, from the classic prose of Shakespeare to a new work by Letitia Sweitzer, which depicts the comic story of Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Eden and life with their lesser-known son, Seth.
The full performance schedule is as follows:
Week 1 December 1-4:
Week 1 Assistant Director: Amber Wakefield
Hell Hath Three Furies by Aoise Stratford, Directed by Nikki Rothenberg
Description: Mac, a Film Noir hero/villain is stuck in Hell for killing three dames…his wife, his shrink, and his girlfriend
Resurrection by Jean Hedgecock, Directed by Katherine Vecchio
Description: “She realized that, in her sleep, she had folded him into an origami bird, and he had flown out the crack in the window.”
Week 2 December 8-11, Shakespeare Classics:
Week 2 Assistant Director: Emily Plumb
Antony & Cleopatra, Directed by Regina Robbins
Description: “Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch/Of the ranged empire fall…”
Henry IV, Directed by Destiny Lilly
Week 3 Decmeber 15-18:
Week 3 Assistant Director: Rose Ginsberg
Cancel the Arugula by Letitia Sweitzer, Directed by Aliza Shane
Description: The comic story of Adam & Eve after the expulsion from Eden, and their life with their lesser-known son, Seth. “Things have really gone sour since they ate the apple…”
Words and Ladders by Dina Gregory, Directed by Candace O’Neil Cihocki
Description: “Mistrust the use of words”; their meanings can be deceiving. There is never a way out if you are forced to go back every time…”
Testimony by Alix Sobler, Directed by Julia Martin
Description: “It’s weird the memories you keep. The ones that give you comfort.”
Casts Include: Kathryn Aagesen, Elizabeth-Ann Conlon*, V. Orion Delwaterman, William Demaniow, Sean Dillon, Stephen Eshenbaugh, Leanne Fornelli, James Gash, Dain A. Geist, Ted Germosen, Josephine Gorchoff, Rebecca Hart, Rob Hille, Emily Hyberger, Chris Janssen, Lauren Kincheloe, Aidan Koehler, Julie Ann McMillan, Charles Moran, Sarah Nedweck, Tiffany Nicely-Williams, Sam Rolen, Jessica Silver, Rachel Speicher, Erik Strongbowe, Leah Viens-Gordon, Jess C. White, Akilah Williams, and Elizabeth Yocam.
*Appears Courtesy of Actors Equity Association
Appropriate For Ages: 12 and up