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OCTOBER 2000 PLAY READINGS AND EVENTS

Tuesday October 3rd, 6pm - 8pm  
CONVERSATIONS WITH PLAYWRIGHTS (Part 3 of 4) 
Part three of our month-long discussion series on playwriting.  Tonight's 
panelists include: Herman Daniel Farrell III, Horton Foote, David 
Lindsay-Abaire and Dominic Taylor.  Location: New Dramatists, 424 West 44th 
Street, (Between 9th and 10th Avenues).  For reservations, please call 
212-757-6960.  Suggested donation $10.00. 

Wednesday October 4th, 7pm  
ALL THE CHILDREN SING by Eli Bolin, Sam Forman (ND Intern) and Jamie Salka
Directed by Jamie Salka
Five New Yorkers live, learn, laugh, love, and sing about being young, 
selfish and perversely inspired.  From Park Slope to the Angelika, from 
Silicon Alley to a futon in Chelsea, this pop opera celebrates the new New 
York.

Thursday October 5th, 4pm   
DEUX MARIAGESby Lynne Alvarez (ND Alumna)
Directed by Timothy Douglas
The great Russian dancer, Vaslav Nijinsky is on a ship to Buenos Aires. 
Diagheliv is not. Romola de Pulsky, a young Hungarian loves him.  In three 
weeks they marry. What is love when you don't speak the same language? What 
is need when obsessions run deep? What is sex without truth?

Thursday October 5th, 7:30pm    
AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONby Herman Daniel Farrell III
Directed by John Steber
Melinda Dillon is convening a colloqiuum on Affirmative Action and she's got 
some questions: How do you begin a conversation about such a volatile issue? 
Who participates? What are the rules of the conversation? What is the goal of 
such a conversation? To reach common ground? What if there is no common 
ground.

Tuesday October 10th, 6pm - 8pm 
CONVERSATIONS WITH PLAYWRIGHTS (Part 4 of 4)
Part four of our month-long discussion series on playwriting.  Tonight's 
panelists include: Jules Feiffer, Cherylene Lee, Alejandro Morales & Paul 
Zimet.  Location: New Dramatists, 424 West 44th Street, (Between 9th and 10th 
Avenues).  For reservations, please call 212-757-6960.  Suggested donation 
$10.00. 

NEW DRAMATISTS' "GRADUATING" CLASS OF 2000 
"Six Pack" PLAY READINGS FESTIVAL (see individual listings below)

Monday October 16th, 7pm    
THE LEGACY CODES 
By Cherylene Lee 
Directed by Ron Nakahara
What are the possibilities when a Chinese-American scientist at a National 
Laboratory is believed to be a spy for the People's Republic of China?  
Commissioned by the Magic Theater for its 2000-2001 season; awarded a Wallace 
A. Gerbode Foundation grant. Reservations required.  Please call (212) 
757-6960 to reserve seating.

Tuesday October 17th, 7pm   
JOE AND STEW'S THEATRE: An Evening of Five Short Plays  
By Jacquelyn Reingold 
A couple of cockroaches start a theatre. A girl looks for a vagina. A woman 
has sex with Raggedy Andy. All that and more. Five very short mostly funny 
plays.  Reservations required.  Please call (212) 757-6960 to reserve seating.

Wednesday October 18th, 4pm 
MAYHEM 
By Kelly Stuart 
Reservations required.  Please call (212) 757-6960 to reserve seating.

Thursday October 19th, 5pm  
DUSK
By Lenora Champagne 
Directed by Rachel Dickstein
A woman with a small child contemplates aging and mortality, attempts to 
transmit knowledge, and experiences anxiety in face of the fleeting wonders 
and dangers of the world. Dusk is a verbal distillation of a painting by, 
say, Bonnard. A vibrantly colored still life/interior/landscape/figure study 
explored from inside the frame. Reservations required.  Please call (212) 
757-6960 to reserve seating.

Friday October 20th, 4pm    
WAITING FOR GODOT TO LEAVE
By Oana Maria Hock Cajal 
Directed by David Levine
Reservations required.  Please call (212) 757-6960 to reserve seating.

MondayOctober 23rd, 7pm 
A BEAUTIFUL WHITE ROOM 
By Barry Jay Kaplan 
Directed by Jean Randich
The emotional and sexual journey to the place where desire leads to death.  A 
man has reached the end of his civilized life-taking care of an aged mother, 
married to a woman he feels no passion for, involved in a love affair with a 
woman who feels contempt for him. He leaves this life to discover the essence 
of who he is; his journey is a downward spiral of sex and murder and a final 
return to the place where fate awaits him. Reservations required.  Please 
call (212) 757-6960 to reserve seating.

Tuesday October 26th, 7pm   
THE SILENT CONCERTO
A Play In Three Movements
By Alejandro Morales
The first of three movements isolating a moment in the lives of three 
friends-Mallory, Benny, and Naldo.  Benny moves in with Mallory and Naldo, 
who begins a play entitled "the silent concerto", not unlike the one we're 
watching and experiencing. As he writes it over and over again, it is unclear 
whether the tiny dramas destroying his friendships are fueling his work or 
vice versa.  

Monday October 30th, 4pm    
THREE CONTINENTS
By Catherine Filloux
Directed By Eleanor Holdridge
Surreal odyssey about a young woman retracing her roots to North Africa, 
France and the United States. A young woman, Liliane, wonders if her parents 
expected family roots to be so long, elastic and faithful to link three 
continents. Her father has designed a mysterious perfume boat which Liliane 
imagines is made of seaweed. In her rootlessness, Liliane blindly traces a 
piece of seaweed to the cape of a Virgin Statue on a mountaintop in 
French-Algeria. There she witnesses a magical breathing ritual which unlocks 
her family's mystery. Cumulative three-part structure; magic realism.

Monday October 30th, 7pm    
CRACKSKULL ROW
By Honour Kane
Directed by Eve Beglarian
In March of 1966, a group of concerned citizens bombed Dublin's famed 
Nelson's Pillar.  Lord Nelson was blasted home by air.  Amidst the 
smoke-blocked roar, the thundering rain of iron and stone, Basher Moorigan 
reaches in and rescues Nelson's sword.  He carries the sword back to his 
home, setting off a time bomb of another kind.

Thursday November 2nd at 7pm    
PEN & SWILL: SELF-PRODUCING AT HOME AND ABROAD
A panel discussion for playwrights, actors and directors about producing 
their own work off-off-Broadway and at theatre festivals, hosted by New 
Dramatists playwright Arlene Hutton. Panelists include Mary Shields (Assembly 
Rooms, Edinburgh), Eric Nightengale (78th Street Theatre Lab) and Beth Lincks 
(The Journey Company).

Monday November 6th at 7pm  
EASTWEST By Mark Bazzone
Our brave young battalions have been beckoned to arms, collapsing camouflage 
camps then deploying defense forces towards war. Gathering against foes and 
fortifying garrisons, they prepare to parlay with enemy. Currently, fighting 
factions bunker hunker down in battlefield bowels. Awaiting unknown 
extermination weapons and strategizing schematically their situations, 
soldiers struggle to bear warfare wear and tear hoping to know home before 
the enemy lays their days flat backed in a grave.
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All events are subject to change and free of charge unless otherwise 
indicated.
For reservations and more information, please call New Dramatists at: 
212-757-6960, or check out our website at: www.NEWDRAMATISTS.ORG   
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* The Conversations with Playwrights Series is made possible, in part, by 
public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City 
Department of Cultural Affairs and the Axe-Houghton Foundation.
* Public Funders: Play readings are made possible, in part, by public funds 
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of 
Cultural Affairs, Schuyler Chapin, Commissioner, The New York State Council 
on the Arts, a State Agency & The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation 
and Historical Preservation, Manhattan Assembly Delegation.
* Major Funders: The BWF Foundation, The John Golden Fund, Scherman 
Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Frederick Loewe Foundation, Hale 
Mattews Foundation andThe NY Times Foundation.
* Play Reading Sponsors:  American Theatre Wing, The Axe-Houghton Foundation, 
Dramatists Play Service, Dramatists Guild Fund, The Friars Foundation, 
William Haber, the Laura Pels Foundation and Philip Morris Companies.
** The Resident Director Program is made possible by the Snowdon Foundation.
*  Musical Projects are made possible through generous gifts from the 
Mackintosh Foundation, Tim & Terri Childs, BWF Foundation, Frederick Loewe 
Foundation and Hal Prince.