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Rattlestick July 2007 Newsletter

Rattlestick Announces its 2007/08 Season: 4 plays for only $99

Rattlestick is pleased to announce its 13th Anniversary Season, the most ambitious season to date, with four new productions.

We will present the world premiere of American Sligo, written and directed by Adam Rapp, in September/October 2007; the New York premiere of Noah Haidle‘s Rag and Bone, directed by Sam Gold, in November/December 2007; and the world premiere of David Grimm‘s Steve & Idi, in March/April 2008. Our fourth production, a special project developed with the Swedish Consulate, will be the American premiere of War, written and directed by renowned Swedish playwright, Lars Norén, and will take place in February/March 2008.

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For Group Sales for any of of productions, please contact Sandra Coudert, who will be happy to help you plan a special night out for you, your organization, family or friends.

Visit our New Website and give it a Test Drive

We have spent the past few months working with web designer James Malley to redesign our website. We are in the early stages of launching it, so we’d love you to check it out and give us feedback — try to break it, spot typos, find bad pages/links, etc.

Also, if you have any old Rattlestick postcards, memorabilia, production photos, articles or memories you’d like to see included in the site, please pass them along. And feel free to submit possible links for us to include in our neighborhood and links pages. Of course, we can’t do it all, but we want and value your feedback.

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Join us at The Happy Accident (our new lobby space)

Wood for a new bar: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Dark Matters
Steel sheeting for the bar: Craig Lucas’ adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie
Structure of the bar: Lucy Thurber’s Stay
Screws to keep it all together: 12 years of Rattlestick productions
Having a new lobby in your theater for under $10: Priceless

This summer, there were many physical changes in our space at 224 Waverly. First, with all hands on deck and the help of many friends, we at Rattlestick renovated our tiny box office area to make a usable working office space (this was more than $10). We still need a new desktop or two and some other items (hint, hint), but the change has been amazing. And in July, Lou Moreno and our new Production Manager, Kathryn Pierroz, set out – with no budget to speak of — to renovate our lobby area. Mission accomplished, and the new lobby space has been officially Christened “The Happy Accident.”

Special shout outs for office and bar renovation: Lou and Kathryn (oh so much); Nikki Walter (design concepts); Ira Lopez & Jenny Maguire (wall-prep work); Madeline S. McEneney, Wilhelm Steenkamp, Sandra Coudert and Richard Helgason (painting); Elliot Nesterman & Chris Lukas (late night techies); Deborah Yachun (memorial script library); David Van Asselt (storage space preservation) Jacob Murphy (elbow grease).