Our Voices

Our Voices, March 26, 2011, Regis College, Weston, MA

CELEBRATE SWAN DAY IN MASSACHUSETTS! Dear Kelly, Happy Support Women Artists Now Day to all of my friends in Massachusetts! I will be in San Francisco for SWAN Day this year, but I just wanted to let you about some great events happening in your area this weekend. I have listed 3 of them below, but there are over 170 SWAN Day events this year, so be sure to check our SWAN Day Calendar to see if there are any others near you. Thanks to all of you who have been so supportive for so many years.  Happy SWAN Day 2011! Martha Richards, Executive Director WomenArts NORTHAMPTON ACADEMY OF MUSIC - Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice Northampton Academy of Music Theatre is launching its new Women's Initiative on Saturday, March 26 at 8 p.m. with a SWAN Day production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice directed by Linda McInerney with original music by Paula Kimper. The original tale of Orpheus and Eurydice focuses on the great Greek musician Orpheus who was so overcome with grief by his wife's death that he journeyed to the Underworld to get her back. He was able to charm Hades and Persephone with his music, and they told him that he could lead Eurydice out of the Underworld on one condition - he had to walk in front of her and he could not look back until both of them were completely in the upper world. Unfortunately, Orpheus turned around as soon as he was on solid ground, and so Eurydice had to return to the Underworld forever. Sarah Ruhl, a playwright who won a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship in 2006 at age 32, tells this story from Eurydice's point of view.  It is a meditation on loss, but it is also full of warmth, humor, and Ruhl's unique theatrical sensibility. Location:  274 Main Street, Northampton, MA Tickets: $20 General; $18 Students and Seniors Box Office: 413-584-9032 x104 Box Office Email:   [email protected] Website:    http://www.academyofmusictheatre.co  OUR VOICES PLAYWRIGHT'S FESTIVAL - Weston, MA Our Voices V is the fifth annual celebration of staged readings of new short works by Boston Area Women Playwrights with a whole day of workshops for playwrights and actors on Saturday, March 26 from 10:30 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. The event will be held in the Black Box Theatre at Regis College Fine Arts Center in Weston, MA.  The organizers are Kelly DuMar, Ann Garvin, and Wendy Lement. This is a free event and no reservations are required.  There is more information available on their website:  http://www.diarydoor.typepad.com/our_voices  FIVE WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS IN 24 HOUR PLAY FESTIVAL IN TROY, NEW YORK Playwrights, directors, designers, crew and actors from both the Berkshires and the Capital Region will mount five new short works by five women playwrights in the 24 Hour Capital Region/Berkshires Theatre Project on Saturday, March 26 at 8 p.m. in the Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy, NY. Kristen van Ginhoven (WAM Theatre), Kat Koppett (MOPCO) and Jill Rafferty-Weinisch (Arts Center of the Capital Region) joined forces to kick off this colossal artistic adventure. WAM Theatre produces theatrical events with a focus on women theatre artists and/or stories of women and girls, and they donate a portion of the proceeds to organizations that benefit women and girls.  When Koppett suggested the 24-hour Theater Project to van Ginhoven, she agreed, with one stipulation - that all five playwrights be women.  How it works:  On Friday evening, March 25, five playwrights will receive the number of actors they are writing for and a theme and they will then have 12 hours to write a short script. The following morning, Saturday, March 26, directors, actors, stage managers, designers and technical staff will gather and rehearse those new scripts. At 8:00pm on Saturday night, those five new scripts will be shared with the public.  The playwrights will be: Linda Bidwell Delaney (Capital Region); Kat Koppett (Capital Region); Nahal Navidar (Capital Region);  Jamuna Yvette Sirker (Berkshires); Susan Dworkin (Berkshires). Location:  The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy, NY 12180-3215 http://www.artscenteronline.org/ Date and Time:  Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 8 p.m. Tickets:   $15 More Information: http://www.wamtheatre.com/events/2011events/24-hour-theatre-project/ Purchase Tickets Online:   http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/153810  SPECIAL THANKS WomenArts is supported by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation, the Peace Development Fund, East Bay Community Foundation, the Leo S. Guthman Fund, the Do A Little Fund, and by gifts of time, energy and money from artists and arts supporters around the world. ABOUT WOMENARTS WomenArts is a community of artists and allies dedicated to celebrating and supporting art by and about women. For an overview of our programs and services, please see the "About Us" section of our web site at http://www.WomenArts.org/about.

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Mass. Women Playwrights Celebrated in Fem Noire Festival, Lowell, MA, March 11 & 12, 2011, 8 p.m.

Fem Noire, The Festival of Women Playwrights, will conclude the weeklong festivities of Lowell Womens Week  with plays  performed in downtown Lowell, the new home fo the Artists League of Lowell. Show is at 8:00 p.m.

Image Theater is proud to present short plays and monologues by: June Bowser- Barrett, Kelly DuMar, Melinda Lopez, Karla Sorenson, Leslie Powell, Hortense Gerardo, Gail Phaneuf, Anne Furtado & Sarah Coakley, Monica Bauer, and Debbie Roy.The plays will be performed at the (Artist
League of Lowell) ALL Arts Gallery, literally surrounded by the original visual artwork by local women artists. ALL Arts Gallery is located at 22 Shattuck Street, Lowell.

All tickets are $15, or $10 with a “Lowell Women’s Week” button.

For more information about Fem Noire, or tickets, call 978-441-0102.

Our Voices V, A Celebration of Boston Area Women Playwrights, Sat. March 26, 2011, Regis College, Weston, MA

Free & Open to the Public

Produced by:  Kelly DuMar, Ann Garvin, Wendy Lement

Guest Playwright/Dramaturge: Sybil Roberts Williams

A Swan Day Event

Support Women Artists Now

Workshop Readings: (Partial List) Black Box, 10:30-12:15

Leanne Calderone, Does Fate Exist? (Short play) 

Sandra Weintraub, Coffee Shop Romance, (Short play)

Phyllis Rittner, Cheryl Ann, (Monologue)

Participating Playwright~Actors~Workshop, Black Box 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Staged Reading Rehearsals 3:45-6:30

Playwright~Actor~Director Green Room Refreshments 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Audience~Playwright Cheese & Fruit Reception 6:30-7:00 p.m.

Staged Readings with Audience Talk-back: 7:00-9:45 p.m.

Kelly DuMar, ENVIA! Episodes (Selected Monologues)

Deirdre Girard, Defensive Wounds, (10-minute play)

G.L. Horton, Kiss the Twins, (10-minute play)

Madge Kaplan, The Last Appointment, (Excerpt)

Wendy Lement, Wedding Dreams, (Excerpt)

Lida McGirr, Poker God, (Monologue)

Phyllis Rittner, Going Down, (10-minute Play)

Sybil Roberts, Zimbabwe: Or She Talks To Bob Marley, (10-minute Play)

Ellen Davis Sullivan, Here’s the Deal, (10-Minute Play)

For More Information Contact:

[email protected] or www.diarydoor.typepad.com/Our_Voices

www.regiscollege.edu/campus_community/fac_schedule.cfm,

www.imagetheater.com