RAT New Dramatists November Schedule-Please Forward!

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New Dramatists
NOVEMBER 2000 PLAY READINGS AND EVENTS
424 West 44th Street, New York, NY  10036.  
For reservations call 212-757-6960

Thursday    November 2nd at 7:00pm  
PEN & SWILL:SELF-PRODUCING AT HOME & 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 7:00pm   
eastwest By Mark Bazzone 
Directed by David Levine
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. eastwest was supported by a 
fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Tuesday November 7th at 7:00pm  
PEN & SWILL:WRITING PLAYS IN A POLITICAL CULTURE
Led by distinguished Israeli playwright & dramaturg, Motti Lerner (Beit 
Lessin Theatre in Tel Aviv), this Pen & Swill discussion focuses on Motti's 
personal experience of writing plays and films that deal with the collective 
traumas of the Israeli society.

Monday, November 13th
Reading at 7:15 pm  By Invitation Only  
BOOK LAUNCH PARTY
TRULY WILDE By Joan Schenkar (Alumna)
For sixty years she was a delicious rumour, Oscar Wilde's enchanting niece, 
Dorothy. Born a scant three months after her uncle's notorious arrest and 
raised in the shadow of the turn of the twentieth century, Dolly Wilde died 
exactly as she lived: vividly, rather violently, and at a very good address. 
Kathleen Chalfant to read excerpts from the book. Published by Basic 
Books/Perseus, Nov. 2000.  By Invitation Only. New Dramatists alumni 
cordially invited. RSVP: 212-757-6960.

Tuesday, November 14th at 7:00 pm and Wednesday, November 15th at 3:00 pm & 
7:00pm  
STEEPLECHASE: A New Musical By John Pielmier (Alumnus) & Matty Selman
A Midsummer Night's Dream set in Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, 1936.  
Reservations required.  Please call 212-726-3822 to RSVP.

Wednesday November 29th at 7:30pm   
LEGACY By Herman Daniel Farrell III
In the East Room of the White House, four American artists convene, along 
with their significant others, ready to take a tour of the artwork displayed 
in the Executive Mansion. One of the artists will be selected to paint the 
portrait of William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President of the United States.  
Who will paint the portrait? Who will decide on the final-image? Who will 
control the art? The artist or the subject? 

Monday December 4th at 7:00pm   
CHINA CALLS By Lonnie Carter
Directed by Loy Arcenas
CHINA CALLS is the tale of transcontinental Chicago-Beijing flights and calls 
between the author opening his play in Chicago and his visits to his 
school-age children in the capital of China in 1998-99.  If that sounds a bit 
frantic/frenetic, know that the play veers from rhyming snoop-doggy-doggerel, 
to Mongolian cadences, to the quietest communication between family members 
trying to talk to each other across the void and veld of the globalized 
Asiatic village.  A re-working of the play that was read last November at ND.

All events are subject to change and free of charge unless otherwise 
indicated.  
To RSVP and for more information, please call: 212-757-6960, or check out our 
website at: www.NEWDRAMATISTS.ORG   

* 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, The Ford 
Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert 
Foundation, The Frederick Loewe Foundation, Hale Mattews Foundation, The NY 
Times Foundation, Sony Corporation, the Edward & Sally van Lier Fund and Judy 
Van Nostrand in memory of Abbott Van Nostrand.
* 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 Tim & Terri 
Childs, BWF Foundation, Frederick Loewe Foundation and Hal Prince.