Drama League to Present DirectorFest 2006

By: BWW News Desk Nov. 08, 2006

DirectorFest 2006 will run from Thursday, December 7 through Sunday, December 10, 2006 at the Abingdon Theatre Center's June Havoc Theatre (312 West 36th Street). Performances will begin at 8:00 PM on Thursday, 8:00 PM on Friday, 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM on Saturday, and 3:00 PM on Sunday.

This year's DirectorFest will present one-act productions from three young directors. The bill will consist of two new plays – Itamar Moses' Authorial Intent, directed by Meredith McDonough (MFA, UCSD), and Jonathan Ceniceroz's The Blessing of the Animals, directed by Alex Torra (MFA, Brown University)– as well as Harold Pinter's One for the Road, directed by Jaime Castañeda (MFA, University of Texas).

Now in its twenty-third year, DirectorFest 2006 is the culmination of the Fall Production Program of The Directors Project, the "only career-development program for directors in the nation that guarantees an opportunity to direct a professional production," according to press materials.

Jonathan Ceniceroz's The Blessing of the Animals is a brand new piece that tells the story of a young man whose gifts draw startling parallels to those of St. Francis of Assisi. The work is a special commission, crafted by Ceniceroz specifically for Torra's direction. Itamar Moses' Authorial Intent gives us a glimpse of the fallacies and realities of actors' lives in the theater, both inside and outside the work they are performing together.

Pinter's play is set in an unknown totalitarian state, where a mysterious figure maintains his authority by interrogating a husband, wife and their small child. Political and religious questions surface about a government's ability to abuse power and the repercussions that are sure to follow.

Tickets for DirectorFest 2006 are at $15 and are available to the general public via www.smarttix.com at (212) 868-4444.

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