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Rattlestick's 2010-2011 Season!
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is now in its 16th Anniversary Season!
Little Doc by Dan Klores
directed by John Gould Rubin
June 11th to July 17th
underneathmybed by Florencia Lozano
directed by Pedro Pascal
September 1st to October 16th
There Are No More Big Secrets by Heidi Schreck
directed by Kip Fagan
November 5th to December 11th
The Hallway Trilogy by Adam Rapp
February 6th to March 27th
Carson McCullers Talks About Love by Suzanne Vega
directed by Kay Matschullat
April 20th to June 5th
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Dan Klores
LITTLE DOC
June 11th – July 17th
The season began with Dan Klores’ first work for the stage – Little Doc, Directed by John Gould Rubin. Klores, whose documentaries have become modern classics, once again weaves a New York tale in this very personal new work, infused with equal parts humor and heartbreak. Set in 1970’s Brooklyn, in the living room of a one-bedroom apartment under the “el” and above a tiny neighborhood bar, Little Doc centers on four childhood friends who find themselves in a life-threatening situation that challenges the validity of the virtues they’ve adopted from a sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll culture.
florencia lozano
underneathmybed
september 1st – october 16th
there’s something underneath daisy’s bed…something or someone. everything is not fine in newton. the ghosts of a foreign dirty war invade the home of the chaotic jimenez family, while a woman remembers the moment in her life when she disappeared for good.
underneathmybed is the second full length play from acclaimed actress and playwright florencia lozano, best known to television as tea delgado on “one life to live.”
Heidi Schreck
There Are No More Big Secrets
November 5th – December 11th
Charles and Maxine haven’t heard from Gabe since he fled the country to start a new life in Moscow in the early nineties. When he returns almost 20 years later with his Russian wife – a journalist seeking asylum in the United States – he seeks refuge and much more in the home of his once dear friends. Inspired by Heidi’s own experience working in Russia, There Are No More Big Secrets is a play about life’s exiles and the uncertain limits of friendship.
Adam Rapp
The Hallway Trilogy
February 6th – March 27th
Playwright, novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, and musician Adam Rapp has been a vital and prolific force in the New York theater world for more than a decade.
Rose
takes place on the evening of November 28th, 1953, the day following the death of Eugene O’Neill and concerns a young actress who has been struggling with severe depression (diagnosed as melancholia in those days) whose arrival in a lower east side tenement affects the lives of several of its residents.
Paraffin
is set on the first evening of the 2003 New York City blackout and concerns a married couple – a husband addicted to heroin, his pregnant wife, and his brother’s unrequited love for his wife. Though it’s now 50 years later, the affects of that young actress’s visit are still being felt.
Nursing
is set in 2053 in a disease-free New York. The tenement has been transformed into a museum where young men and women in need of cash are injected with old-fashioned diseases for the amusement of the public. On this night the air-tight glass wall fractures.
In putting together this sequence of plays called The Hallway Trilogy, Adam has found a different and compelling take on the nature of a trilogy, on what binds people together and how they move forward into the future.
Suzanne Vega
Carson McCullers Talks About Love
April 20th – June 5th
The season concludes with the first theatrical work from one of the great songwriters of her generation – Suzanne Vega. Suzanne performs the role of Carson McCullers in Carson McCullers Talks About Love, in which the iconic McCullers talks and reminisces about love and art and life. In trying to explain, she strives to conquer the demons that intrude on the course of love that for her characters never run smoothly. Seamlessly moving from spoken word to song and back again, Vega channels McCullers in a way that reveals the meeting of two souls through a work of art. Directed by Kay Matschullat.
