Out of Time & Place: An Anthology of Plays by the Women's Project Playwrights Lab, Volume 2

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Alexis Clements, Christine Evans
Lulu.com, 2010 - Performing Arts - 426 pages
Out of Place & Time, Vol. 2, is an anthology of plays by six members of the Women's Project Lab. It's a snapshot of some of the most ambitious work incubating in New York and a diverse compilation of plays for directors and actors seeking exciting contemporary work to explore. With a hilarious and biting intro by Theresa Rebeck that challenges the American theater to celebrate and produce its women playwrights, Vol. 2 showcases writers whose voices sing our world with wit, passion and daring. Bekah Brunsetter's Le Fou teases out the destructive dance between love and vanity. Kara Manning's Sleeping Rough forms a blues ballad for souls displaced between lives. Alexis Clements' Conversation cleverly interrogates the science of speech, while Nadia Davids' At Her Feet plays out another kind of linguistic music, that of six very different Muslim women from Cape Town. Carla Ching's TBA plays with the power of naming, and Andrea Thome's Undone offers a polyphonic love poem to a city crowded with the living and dead.
 

Contents

Isaac Byrne On Bekah Brunstetters Le Fou
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Sleeping Rough
73
Conversation
93
Undone
145
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About the author (2010)

Alexis Clements is a writer, performer and pamphleteer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She has received a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, the 2004 Washington Theater Festival Literary Prize, two Puffin Foundation Artist’s Grants, and a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant. Productions include: Place ReImagined (NYC); Your Own Personal Apocalypse (NYC); The Interview (Edinburgh Festival); and Pieces (Washington, DC & Iowa City, IA). Publications include: selected plays in KNOCK Magazine, short stories in US and UK collections, and articles in Nature, The Brooklyn Rail and The Guardian. MSc, Philosophy & History of Science from the London School of Economics & Political Science. BA, Theatre Studies, Emerson College. www.alexisclements.com Christine Evans’ productions include multi-award winning Trojan Barbie (American Repertory Theatre, 2009; Playbox Theatre, U.K. 2010); Weightless, Mothergun and All Souls’ Day (Perishable Theatre); Slow Falling Bird (Crowded Fire, San Francisco; Metro Arts, Brisbane) and My Vicious Angel (Belvoir St. Theatre; Adelaide International Festival, Australia). Honors include the RISCA Playwriting Fellowship, two MacDowell Colony Fellowships and the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. Christine is a Fulbright alumna, holds an MFA and PhD from Brown and teaches playwriting at Harvard. Her plays are published by Theatre Forum, NoPassport Press, Smith & Kraus and Samuel French (2010). www.christine-evans-playwright.com

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