Emergence; Women's Work Short Play Festival

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Melanie Santiago
Phone:
646-736-8446
E-mail:
newper37@gmail.com
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NPTC’s Women’s Work LAB offers a festival each summer with plays created from scratch in a unique process that begins anew each February. LAB Program Manager Jenny Greeman provided the theme to 2021 members, then resident directors collectively dramaturged the scripts to bring them to production quality over a five-month period. The festival provides the critical development tool of putting scripts on their feet, fully rehearsed in a simple production style. The theme of EMERGENCE was inspired (as all themes have been) by the social and political discourse percolating in the U.S. at the start of a new LAB. The 2021 theme was influenced by a new Democratic Administration and the then hoped for end to the pandemic. As always, each writer found her own take on this theme, and the resulting plays are as unique and diverse as the talented writers who created them. 

 

Program A begins with That's What Happened by Queen Esther, which interweaves the experiences of an African American Capitol police officer and a participant in the January 6th insurrection for a look at the two realities in contemporary America. Rebekah Lopatto's Bad Koreans is set on a college campus and farcically spotlights the dilemma of a group of young women struggling to claim their own identity in the face of cultural dictates from all sides. Jeana Scotti's absurdist Candy Girls tackles the question of workplace sexual harassment through a generational lens and the infestation of the "male gaze" in all aspects of women's lives.

 

Program B opens with Brittany Johnson by Mehrnaz Tiv, which looks at the ways in which the entertainment industry pigeonholes women from different cultural backgrounds, and one aspiring actor's journey to succeed in spite of the odds. Earthshine by Makaela Shealy-Sachot is a mystical fairytale set in a closed religious community and Anarchy by Mary Glen Fredrick is a highly theatrical romp in a futuristic world where "paying the rent" is truly worse than hell.

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