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Four New Play Anthologies from NoPassport Press Launched at "Dreaming the Americas" Conference
Categories: UncategorizedIn conjunction with a two-day February 13-14 conference, “Dreaming the Americas: Legacy & R/Evolution in Performance” — and in collaboration with Frank Hentschker and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, Graduate Center CUNY — the unincorporated theatre alliance NoPassport is proud to launch four new titles under its NoPassport Press imprint. These unique collections of plays gather together in stylish paperback volumes the most significant body of works from three trailblazing U.S. playwrights, as well as thrillingly poetic and dramatic reconfigurations of the Sophocles classic, the Antigone.
Intended for readers of literature, avid theatergoers, actors, theatre producers, teachers and students of theatre, these four exciting play anthologies are prefaced by smart new essays and fresh introductions written specifically for this series from several of today’s most important experimental playwrights Naomi Wallace, Fiona Templeton, Octavio Solis and Lisa Schlesinger, as well as Marianne McDonald, a professor of ancient Greek drama and ancient classics.
These new titles are:
1) MATTHEW MAGUIRE: THREE PLAYS — consisting of The Tower, Luscious Music and The Desert, with preface by Naomi Wallace;
2) JOHN JESURUN: DEEP SLEEP, WHITE WATER, BLACK MARIA - A MEDIA TRILOGY, with preface by Fiona Templeton;
3) AMPARO GARCIA-CROW: THE SOUTH TEXAS PLAYS — consisting of Cocks Have Claws and Wings to Fly, Under a Western Sky, The Faraway Nearby and Esmeralda Blue, with preface by Octavio Solis;
4) ANTIGONE PROJECT: A PLAY IN FIVE PARTS — consisting of modern-day versions of the Greek classic by Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, Lynn Nottage and Caridad Svich, with preface by Lisa Schlesinger and introduction by Marianne McDonald.Matthew Maguire is a two-time Obie award winner: one for acting in 1998 and most recently for direction of his 2006 play Abandon at La MaMa E.T.C. He is co-artistic director of Creation Production Company, which he founded with Susan Mosakowski and an alumnus of New Dramatists.
John Jesurun, the winner of the MacArthur “genius” grant in 1996, is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost innovators of avant-garde theatre, creating virtuoso works that overlap media and language in surprising and unpredictable ways. His works include Chang in a Void Moon, a series of episode plays with various media forms, pop-cultural constructs and entertainment genres.
Amparo Garcia-Crow is a native Texan and acclaimed performer, director and playwright who founded Inspirit Studios in 2006 as a clearinghouse for her dramatic, narrative and musical creations. She is also a screenwriter.
The Antigone Project is a kaleidoscopic reconfiguration of the Greek classic, produced at the Women’s Project in the 2004-2005 season, under the direction of Annie Dorsen, Dana Iris Harrel, Anna Kauffman, Barbara Rubin and Liesl Tommy. Tanya Barfield is a 2003 Helen Merrill Award winner and the author of the play Blue Door. Karen Hartman’s work includes Going Gone and Motherbone. Chiori Miyagawa conceived the Antigone Project for the company Crossing Jamaica. Lynn Nottage, a 2007 MacArthur “genius” grant winner, is the author of the plays Ruined and Intimate Apparel. Caridad Svich is an award-winning playwright, translator and lyricist.
The NoPassport Press imprint:
NOPASSPORT PRESS is a division of NoPassport that aims to bring new, challenging playscripts, translations, essays and theatre criticism to the field.
In February 2008, NoPassport Press officially launched its first batch of titles — all play anthologies. These titles are: OLIVER MAYER: COLLECTED PLAYS, with a preface by Luis Alfaro and an introduction by Jon D. Rossini; ANNE GARCIA-ROMERO: COLLECTED PLAYS, with a preface by Juliette Carillo; ALEJANDRO MORALES: COLLECTED PLAYS; and two volumes of LORCA: MAJOR PLAYS by Federico Garcia Lorca in new translations by Caridad Svich, with a preface by James Leverett and introductory essays by Amy Rogoway and Svich.
All NoPassport Press titles are available for purchase, in general access editions, via lulu.com and Amazon.com. They can also be found at Drama Book Shop in New York City. Paperback U.S. list price is $20.00 each.
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