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| Anne Washburn is from the West and Northwest and as a result prefers her foliage and landscapes a little on the drastic side. Her work has been produced by 13P, A.R.T., Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, E.S.T., London‘s Gate Theatre, NYC’s Soho Rep., DC's Studio Theater, and NYC’s Vineyard Theatre, among others. Her plays have been published or are about to be published in American Theater (April 2007), Yale Theatre, Playscripts.com, and she is included in the anthologies New Downtown Now (Edited by Young Jean Lee and Mac Wellman; Univ. of Minnesota Press) and in New York Theater Review 2007 (Edited Brook Stowe). She has been commissioned by The Civilians, Soho Rep, the Williamstown Theater Festival, and Yale. She is a member of 13P and The Civilians, and an associated artist with New Georges. | ||
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THE INTERNATIONALIST
4M, 2W
Lowell, an American on a business trip, disembarks in a foreign country,
and is met at the airport by a beautiful colleague. He thinks he’s in
one of those great American movies where you go places and people are
exotic and there is romance and adventure and your sense of what is
possible is expanded and you become a worldly and sophisticated person.
Instead he discovers that he isn't in that kind of movie at all, he’s in
a different one, one of those foreign ones with no clear hero or moral
and, most importantly, no subtitles. Premiere: 13P, NYC (2004). Additional productions: Fairfield Theatre Company, Connecticut (2004); Practical Theatre Company, Sydney Australia; Red Eye, Minneapolis (2006); Vineyard Theatre, NYC (2006); Boulevard Ensemble Theatre, Milwaukee (2007); Gate, London (2008); Studio Theatre, DC (2008). Written in the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab 2002/03. "A sad, beautiful play" -- Variety "A clever comedy for the age of globalization" -- Washington Post "An unsettling, almost Kafka-esque examination of who we are and where we come from" -- The Guardian "This fiercely imaginative dramatist has her English and eats it too" -- Time Out New York |
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APPARITION Brief Full Length. Dark, Comic.
5 charismatic actors of any sort
whatsoever
Modern ghost stories alternate with bouts of fake Latin. The story of
Macbeth is told and retold; waiting to go on, the actors playing the
witches hold a head count and discover they are one too many. Demons
appear in suburban back yards and reappear elsewhere in another
narrative. A couple, in an attic, can’t decide if they are alive or
dead. Apparition uses stories, fragmented voices,
challenged language, stage superstitions, discontinuous narratives, and
the guileless pleasure of the supernatural to create a world which is
intelligible, but not fully comprehensible. Premiere: Chashama, NYC (2003). Also
produced at the Connolly, NYC (2005). Workshopped: Soho Rep R&D. Written
in the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab 2001/2002. "Irresistible" -- New York Times "Her situations are ineluctably theatrical" —The Village Voice"An extraordinarily creepy meditation on fear"–TimeOut New York |
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THE COMMUNIST DRACULA PAGEANT
8M, 1W (many of these roles can be played by
women)
The Romanian revolution was a coup disguised
as a revolution, a bloody piece of theater in which thousands of
Romanians lost their lives. THE COMMUNIST DRACULA PAGEANT is a piece of
theater about Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, about lies, about confusion,
about images, and about freedom—the food which makes you hungrier.
Features Vlad Tepes, the historical Dracula.
Premiere: A.R.T., Cambridge (Fall 2008). Workshop productions: Soho
Rep, NYC (2001); Defunkt Theater, Portland OR (2008). Workshopped in the
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THE LADIES
6W
"Brashly entertaining...full of moments
of quirky insight"—The New York Times |
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by Euripides
Full-length, 90 minutes
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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1M; Young man, just 14
1W; Young Woman,
almost 16 Set in 1982 on the edge of the
East Village. David falls under the tutelage of Nikkie, a young woman
who seems to know quite a bit. A short play about experience and how it
creates you and how it destroys you. Presented as part of Ensemble Studio Theater's
Marathon Series 2008. "Washburn makes the nerve wracking seriousness
of childhood very funny" - Variety "Oscillates winningly between suspense and
anticipation." -- Village Voice |
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EVERYTHING NOT PERMITTED IS FORBIDDEN (AND VICE VERSA)
3M, 3W
A Frenchman, kidnapping permits, corporate murder
pre-dawn, condoms, a miniature of the tour d’eiffel, the threat of a
lawsuit, hospital gowns, and the Alien Perspective. Includes: Everything Not Permitted Is
Forbidden (and Vice Versa), , Surgery Patients, In The Night Office,
Pearl. |
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