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bobrauschenbergamerica

Posted on June 2, 2011 in Season 7

bobrauschenbergamerica

by Charles L. Mee

directed by Derek Goldman

JUNE 2 – JUNE 25, 2011
 
FEATURING: Company Members Michael Dove (WILSON) and Cliff Williams (PHIL, THE TRUCKER), as well as Joe Brack (BOB, THE PIZZA BOY), Chelsey Christensen (PHIL'S GIRL), Maboud Ebrahimzadeh (BECKER), Julie Garner (SUSAN), Annie Houston (BOB'S MOM), Augie Praley (ALLEN), and Aaron Reeder (CARL).
 
Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes (no intermission)
Appropriate for ages 13 and up
 
 
ABOUT THE SHOW: Take a wild and whimsical road trip through America! Inspired by painter and pop artist Robert Rauschenberg, bobrauschenbergamerica is a vivid collage of love stories, business schemes, backyard barbecues, singing, dancing, and chicken jokes.
 
"Generosity and surprise abound, but director Derek Goldman has tapped deep wells of melancholy and insight too [...] It's the most athletic offering we've seen yet from Forum."
 
"Such an organically superb production [...] It is a story of incandescent joy. It is a work of art." 
 
 


DESIGN/PRODUCTION TEAM: 
Natsu Power - SCENIC DESIGNER
Ivania Stack - COSTUME DESIGNER
Paul Frydrychowski - LIGHTING DESIGNER
Veronika Vorell - SOUND DESIGNER
Kelly Mayfield - CHOREOGRAPHER
Laura Esti Miller - DRAMATURG
Carolyn Sewell - SEASON ARTWORK
Melissa Blackall - PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHER
Rose McConnell - LIVE MUSIC COORDINATOR
 
Stephanie Junkin - PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Zachary W. Ford - REHEARSAL STAGE MANAGER
Mandy Yu - DECK MANAGER
 
 
 

 

One Flea Spare

Posted on February 17, 2011 in Season 7

by Naomi Wallace
Directed by Alexander Strain
February 17 – March 12, 2011

As the streets of 1665 London pile up with bodies, a rough-spoken sailor and a precocious young girl steal indoors, only to discover themselves quarantined for a month with the wealthy master and mistress of the house.

One Flea Spare is a searing and bawdy Black Plague comedy that explores the limits of compassion in a tale about sex, class and disease. Winner of the 1997 Obie Award for Best Play and from the MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Award” winning writer and Kentucky native, Naomi Wallace.


Forum Presents: The Naomi Wallace Festival

 

Naomi Wallace Festival

Posted on February 7, 2011 in Season 7

 


NAOMI WALLACE FESTIVAL

February 7 - 28, 2011

Upon first seeing One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace, Tony Kushner (Angels in America) wrote that "it has made me intensely envious and full of joy."

One Flea Spare begins previews on February 17th and our Naomi Wallace Festival begins on February 7th! The full schedule is below and all events are "pay what you can" — and FREE for Forum Theatre Members


STAGED READINGS

Monday, February 7 @ 7:30 PM
The Hard Weather Boating Party
directed by Jennifer Nelson

featuring Alex Perez, J.J. Johnson & MJ Casey
Woolly Mammoth Theatre
641 D St NW
Washington, DC 20004


Monday, February 14 @ 7:30 PM 
The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek 
directed by Mitchell Hébert
 
featuring Aaron Bliden, Julia Proctor, John Lescault, Amy McWilliams & Teniece Johnson
Silver Spring Civic Building
One Veterans Place
Silver Spring, MD 20910


Monday, February 21 @ 7:30 PM 
The Fever Chart 
directed by Hunter Styles and Stephanie Freed
 
featuring Jjana Valentiner, James Flanagan, John Kevin Boggs, Casie Platt, Michael Tolaydo & Michael Mitchell 
The Fever Chart will be presented at a private residence. Event is open to the public, but RSVP’s must be sent to tickets@forumtheatredc.org and the location will be sent in response.

SPECIAL EVENT

Naomi Wallace actually began her career as a poet, so we have invited local writers, dancers, and artists to create short-yet-potent theatrical responses to one of the poems in Wallace's "To Dance a Stony Field" (1995).

Monday, February 28 @ 7:30 PM
Forum (Re)Acts
Round House Theatre Silver Spring
8641 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910

 

 

Scorched

Posted on September 30, 2010 in Season 7

 


SCORCHED 

by Wajdi Mouawad

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

directed by Artistic Director Michael Dove

SEPTEMBER 30 – OCTOBER 23, 2010


The peculiar dying wishes of their mother sends twins Simon and Janine on a journey to the war-torn Middle East to unravel their origins and unearth the source of their mother’s years-long silence.


featuring Forum company member Alexander Strain*, with Rachel Beauregard, Rena Cherry Brown, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, Tina Ghandchilar, Dana Levanovsky, Scott McCormick, Amy McWilliams*, and Joseph Thornhill.

 

SET. Lisi Stoessel
COSTUMES.Deb Sivigny
LIGHTS.Brian Engel
SOUND.Chris Baine

DRAMATURGY.Timothy J. Guillot
STAGE MANAGER.Stephanie Junkin
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.Ronee Penoi
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY.Cliff Williams