Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Plays of Protest

New readings of influential activist plays

Ciockwise from top left: The Brig (1963); Sam Shepard; The Living Theater's The Brig cast being arrested (1964); Vietnam War protesters (c. 1968); Megan Terry

2 pm

Grant Duay's Fruit Salad (1967)
directed by Gabriel Shanks

Megan Terry's Viet Rock (1966)
directed by Ralph Lewis

4:30 pm

Kenneth Brown's The Brig (1963)
directed by David Vining

Sam Shepard's
Forensic and the Navigators (1967)
directed by Jeff Janisheski

Admission: Free

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
(entrance on Thompson St.) map

TOSOS II (The Other Side of Silence)
in association with Peculiar Works Project
celebrates the origins of off-off-Broadway

Michael Lynch
in
Lanford Wilson's
The Madness of Lady Bright

directed by Mark Finley
produced by Barry Childs and Doric Wilson

Special Added Performance:
Tuesday, May 16
Including a post-performance discussion with
Lanford Wilson, Marshall W. Mason and Doric Wilson

The Duplex
61 Christopher Street (at Seventh Avenue)

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Sunday, May 28, 2006 at 1pm

Outside Underground

Readings of plays that take place outside

Sam Shepard's Icarus's Mother (1965)

Ruth Krauss' A Beautiful Day (1963)

John Guare's The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year (1966)

Jean-Claude van Itallie and The Open Theater's The Serpent (1968)

Jefferson Market Garden
Greenwich Avenue below West 10th Street beside the Jefferson Market Library map

June 18, 2006 at 1pm

Rites and Rituals:
Ensemble-generated works

Among the plays under consideration:

Susan Yankowitz and The Open Theater's Terminal (1969-70)

Murray Mednick and Tony Barsha's The Hawk (1967)

Judith Malina and Julian Beck's Paradise Now (1968)

Maria Irene Fornes' A Vietnamese Wedding (1967)

New York Marble Cemetery
41 1/2 Second Avenue (below 3rd Street) map

June 2006

Plays in Cafés, Part III:
Celebrating works from Café LaMama

Among the plays under consideration:

Paul Foster's Balls (1964)

Tom Eyen's Why Hannah's Skirt Won't Stay Down (1965)

Rochelle Owens' Futz (1967)

David Starkweather's You May Go Home Again (1965)

Leonard Melfi's Birdbath (1966)

Lanford Wilson's Home Free (1964)

Jeff Weiss' That's How the Rent Gets Paid (1966)

Location TBA
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The OFF Project is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Nancy Quinn Fund.