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RAT ST.JOAN AND THE DANCING SICKNESS PRESS RELEASE
PLEASE FORWARD, COPY, POST- MOST OF ALL- PLEASE COME!!MY APOLOGIES IF
ANYONE GETS MORE THAN ONE COPY OF THIS RELEASE.
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BRAD
* Press release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Theatre Double's reading series,
Underground Voices
Curated by Brad Rothbart
presents a reading of
St. Joan and the Dancing Sickness
by Julie Hébert
The cast of St.Joan and the Dancing Sickness includes Lisa Norton
as JEANETTE LEBLANC, Juanita Amonetti as THE OLD NUN, Vincent Yates
as REVEREND ISAAC JUMONVILLE, Sonja Robson as SENATOR DELPHINE
PELTIER, Harum Ullmer Jr. as her assistant RAPHAEL, Brian Anthony
Wilson as JEANETTE'S FATHER/ BISHOP ROBICHEAUX, Jeff Marsh as
ROCKET/STEVE and Jona Harvey as REVA TOPPS/ROSE CLOUTIER. The
reading will take place at Theatre Double, 1619 Walnut Street in
Philadelphia on Monday 29 May at 8 pm. Doors will open at 7:30. The
reading is for one night only. Admission is pay-what-you-can, and
the space is wheelchair accessible.
About the work, Liz Engelman of A Contemporary Theater in Seattle
says: "The play coalesces wonderfully into a political, moral and
emotional story of a girl's obedience to her voice within, and its
disastrous social consequences. The writing is heard, gritty, and
the images wonderfully
tough. The message is a profound one."
Please join us for this urban update of St. Joan. The work has
never been produced, and Ms. Hébert has never before been read in
Philadelphia. Following the performance, please stay for our free
wine-and cheese reception at which you will get the chance to
informally discuss the work with the director and actors.
Julie Hebért (Playwright)
Hébert was a 1995-96 National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting
Fellow, as well as the recipient of a California Arts Council
Playwriting Grant for the same year. In 1998-99, she was a
participant in the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for
Playwrights with the Women’s Project in New York. In 1999 she
received the PEN Center West Award for Drama as well as second prize
in the Susan Smith Blackburn Award for her play, The Knee Desires the
Dirt. From 1989 - 1993, Hébert served as Artistic Director for the
Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, during which time she
received an NEA Inter-Arts grant for her collaboration on Heiner
Mueller's Despoiled Shore/Medeamaterial/Landscape with Argonauts,
with visual artist Douglas Bourgeois, composer Mark Bingham and
choreographer Deborah Slater. The work was further honored with a
cover story in American Theatre magazine. Hébert has directed dozens
of new plays for theaters including Circle Rep, LaMaMa, Provincetown
Playhouse, Steppenwolf, Los Angeles Theater Center, Magic Theater,
Eureka Theater, San Diego Rep and others. Early in her career she
received the NEA Directing Fellowship with the Magic Theater. Under
the auspices of the Japan America Foundation she took Circle Rep’s
production of Sam Shepard's play, Fool For Love , on tour throughout
Japan. Hebert's directing work has been honored with a Drama-Logue,
a Critic's Circle nomination, an NAACP Image Award nomination, an
Emmy, and she was a finalist for the 1996 TCG Alan Schneider
Directing Award, representing the Western States. Hébert wrote the
screenplay, Female Perversions, adapted from the book of the same
name by Louise J. Kaplan. The film, directed by Susan Streitfeld,
starring Tilda Swinton and Amy Madigan, was released by October
Films. Recently her teleplay, All-American Girl: The Mary Kay
Letorneau Story was aired on USA Networks. Currently, she is writing
a teleplay for ABC and preparing to direct her first feature film.
Hébert has taught playwriting and directing with various institutions
including Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, Alternate Roots, UC
Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and UCLA.
Future Readings Include:
05 June Stations of Desire- an
email text collaboration
19 June Lisa D'Amour 16 Spells to
Charm the Beast
For further information on Underground Voices call: 215.557.9420x5