In the drought ravaged South of 1931,
Arkansas farmers made sure that the government wouldn't ignore them... |
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performed by
Tonya Canada • Patricia Drozda* • Sarah Elizondo* • Ken Glickfeld* • Mick Hilgers* • Christopher Hurt* • Derek Jamison • Ben Kopit • Carrie McCrossen • Catherine Porter* • Rebecca Servon |
Thursdays – Sundays,
June 3 – 27, 2010 at 7pm |
Previews: June 3 – 5 at 7pm • Opening: Sunday, June 6 at 7pm
running time: appr. 90 minutes |
A pop-up performance in a raw space at 2 Great Jones St., NYC
(between Broadway & Lafayette) map it
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| "We live in a changing world: man is whispering through space, soaring to the stars in ships, flinging miles of steel and glass into the air. Shall the theatre continue to huddle in the confines of a painted box-set?" — Hallie Flanagan, Arena (1940) |
Admission: Previews June 3, 4 & 5 only $10
$15 ( $12 stu/sen) thru theatremania.com or 212-352-3101
$18 ( $15 stu/sen) at door; TDF accepted
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Original Music: Seth Bedford
Lighting: David Castaneda
Sets: Nikolay Levin
Costumes: Deb O
Video/Projections: Matt Tennie
Production stage manager: Susan D. Lange*
Producing associate/actor swing : Cathy Carlton*
Production dramaturg: Gwen Orel
Press representative: Jim Baldassare
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directed by Ralph Lewis & Barry Rowell |
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POST-SHOW TALKBACKS
Following the show each Sunday, we've invited special guests to discuss the play and provide context for it in its own time as well as ours. Sunday, June 6th, we're delighted to have author David Chambers, grandson of Whittaker Chambers and creator of whittakerchambers.org, to discuss the original story and his grandfather's legacy.
Our upcoming guests include Joanne Davis Bentley (step-daughter of Hallie Flanagan and author of Hallie Flanagan: A Life in the Theatre); renowned writer, translator and critic Eric Bentley; Associate Professor of Economics at United States Military Academy Rozlyn Engel; Dorothy Chansky, author of Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004); assistant professor of theatre at Texas Tech, playwright Kia Corthron (Force Continuum, Splash Hatch on the E Going Dowen, Breath Boom); and playwright Jeffrey Sweet (The Value of Names, The Dramatist's Toolkit, Something Wondeful Right Away). |
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| RECENT PRESS: |
| Ralph and Barry were interviewed by the legendary Jerry Tallmer for this article in The Villager. |
| Preview notices by Trav S.D. in The Villager and Tom Murrin in Paper. |
Read director Ralph Lewis' answers to "5 Questions I’ve Never Been Asked"
on The Clyde Fitch Report |
| Author David Chambers (and grandson of Whittaker Chambers) added a wikipedia entry for Flanagan and Clifford's play that includes our production in its history. |
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| Can You Hear Their Voices? is made possible in part with public support from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and with private support from the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Mental Insight Foundation and the Nancy Quinn Fund, a project of A.R.T./New York |
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*member, Actors' Equity Association |
