2002-2003 Season
The Brave New Works marathon of play development workshops was held in two phases this season. In the fall staged readings were produced of plays about two scientists who helped us to understand the birth and shape of the universe:
Background by Lauren Gunderson
Friedmann's Balloon by Sidney Perkowitz
And a reading of a new play directed by Wier Harmon of Actors' Express prior to production there in the spring:
Manna by Steve Murray
The Discovery of America by Arthur Kopit. Commissioned as a part of the 2002 Winter Olympic Arts Festival, it is a work-in-progress produced at Theater Emory during the 2002 Atlanta First Glance Festival. Kopit's play is based on the accounts of Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish explorer who traveled in the Americas between 1528 and 1536. As the first European to cross nearly 6,000 miles of what is now North America, de Vaca was transformed by the journey, which he chronicled in the first great narrative of the making of America.
Brave New Works II inaugurates the Theater Laboratory in the Marvin and Donna Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Book of Revelations by Jon Lipsky
The Mark of the Lord by Janet Kenney
Historical Fiction by Jennie Snyder
Arrangement for a Glass Guitar by Henry Israeli
12,395 Words by Joseph Skibell
MAGIK! by Pamela Turner
Dating and Mating in Modern Times by Elizabeth Wong
Boca Della Verita by Thomas Bryant
Crow by Vinnie Murphy based on the poetry of Ted Hughes
Room created by the SITI Company (Saratoga International Theater Institute), directed by Anne Bogart, created from a sampling of the lifetime writings of the English writer, Virginia Woolf. Actress Ellen Lauren, in a tour de force performance, guides the audience into the mind and experience of this extraordinary woman who wrote with humor, outrage, and passion in the early twentieth century.
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Tim McDonough. Theater Emory begins a research cycle into the work of the great Russian playwright with one of his masterpieces.
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