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Media Alert April 18, 2005
Brown/Trinity Repertory Playwrights Theatre
Box 1897 (or 77 Waterman Street), Providence, RI 02912
Contact: Brian Gaston, Marketing and Publicity Director
401-863-2730 or Brian_Gaston@brown.edu
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Theatre returns to Providence this summer…
Announcing the All New
Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre
Throughout the month of July, three hot new plays by three of America’s hottest young playwrights will premiere in the Leeds Theatre each for about the price of a movie.
The Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre is an extraordinary ensemble of young theatre professionals, augmented by seasoned alumni performers and supported by the young artists-in-training who make up the Apprentice and TheatreBridge Companies. Brown alumni playwrights and other established American dramatists gather at Brown each summer to share their experience and expertise with students and to showcase their new works.
For details on our company and up-to-date information visit: www.brown.edu/tickets
Venue Details
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Leeds Theatre
Catherine Bryan Dill Performing Arts Center
Brown University
77 Waterman Street
Providence, Rhode Island 20912
Box Office – 401-863-2838
www.brown.edu/tickets
Tickets: $10 Regular, $8 Seniors/Employees, $5 Students
All tickets unassigned seating
2005 Premiere Season
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WARFARE
by Paul Grellong
July 6, 7, 8, 9, 29 at 8 PM
and July 30 at 4pm
THOSE WHO CAN DO
by Brighde Mullins
July 13, 14, 15, 16, 28, at 8 PM
and July 30 at 1 PM
GIRL ON GIRL
by Stephen Karam
July 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, and 30 at 8 PM
Festival Week July 27 - 30, 2005 (all 3 Plays in Repertory)
Play Descriptions
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Warfare
By Paul Grellong
Directed by Heath Cullens
March 24, 1999: NATO bombs begin falling on Serbia, and two journalists are breaking off an affair in a hotel room in New England. Set primarily on this night, the play traces the relationship between Jeff, a drinking man with a marriage problem, and Kim, an ambitious young rising star. Their relationship began to take shape when she was a copy intern at his Providence paper, and has spanned the 1990's, with the mounting crisis in the Balkans serving as an ominous backdrop. Kim, now a reporter for a more prestigious paper in Boston, is about to leave for Kosovo to cover the war.
They have always disagreed strongly on questions of intervention and power, but everything builds to a breathtaking apex as President Clinton commits troops to the Kosovo conflict, and both journalists make one final power play of their own.
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Those Who Can, Do
By Brighde Mullins
Directed by Laura Kepley
Ann Marie has an epiphany on the subway. She leaves a lucrative career in advertising to teach poetry and escape the "bourgeois narcotics factory." She winds up teaching at Staten Island Community College where she is stalked by an obsessive student and harassed by everyone else. A black comedy that takes on poets, professors, students, sexy baristas and shrinks.
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Girl On Girl
By Stephen Karam
Directed by Lowry Marshall
Act one: “Mister Murdery”
A violent storm rages outside of Citytown General Hospital. Nurse Cherry and Nurse Silver wait helplessly (and in fetching white uniforms) after learning that three of Citytown’s residents (including the gay-half of the two-person police force) have been murdered. With only a radio at their disposal, the two women must rely on each other for survival. A wicked comedy with startling twists and sharper turns around every wing of the abandoned hospital.
Act two: “The Principal and the Pee”
A power-mad school administrator takes over Citytown General High School as if it were a kingdom. He arms his janitors (in a move to prevent school shootings), expels a lesbian student for spreading an STD (Pink Eye), and reveals dark family secrets as he struggles to hold on to his principality in an age where good old fashioned tyranny doesn’t seem to be appreciated by anyone.
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