MTWorks Announces Sixth Season

Maieutic Theatre Works (MTWorks) is pleased to announce their sixth season featuring 2011 National NewBorn Festival's Costa Rehab and Parts of Parts & Stitches in A Season of Fight; Plus their National NewBorn Festival and two one-night events, Underworld V: Duets and MTWorkologues 3.0.

With great anticipation, Artistic Director, David Stallings says, "After five seasons of new plays, I am excited to present New York with our most aggressive season yet: A Season of Fight. In the comedy, Costa Rehab, Iraq War veterans struggle with the aftermath of their injuries and losses, while finding a new hope in a future not revolved around fighting. The drama, Parts of Parts & Stitches coincides with the 65th anniversary of the partition of India, a poignant piece both magical and gut wrenching. The National NewBorn Festival, our week-long reading festival will include it's first musical entry; Broadway understudies will continue to dazzle our audiences in Underworld V, and we are also excited to include MTWorkologues 3.0 as part of our season. I know we will continue to show New York Theatre that Off-Off Broadway can produce compelling work."

MTWorks' season commences on November 3rd with Rich Rubin's Costa Rehab, directed by Shelly Feldman. The play, which runs through November 19th at the Workshop Theater (312 West 36th Street, 4th Floor), is about Wheeler and Corso, two injured Iraq War veterans, recuperating in the rehab unit of a stateside Army hospital. Their friendship is based on a profane camaraderie and a shared, if unstated, experience of war. Both men, however, are bored and sliding towards burnout, worn down by the weight of their injuries and the impersonal face of the Army bureaucracy. The arrival of Davis, a third injured vet, serves to rejuvenate the other two soldiers, providing them with a fresh, if unconventional, mission to focus on. Their subversive quest on Davis' behalf leads to a renewed sense of hope for all three of them.

In March MTWorks will produce the Riti Sachdeva's Parts of Parts & Stitches, a selection of the 2011 National NewBorn Festival, winner of the first Excellence in Playwriting Award presented by the MTWorks' Board of Directors, and winner 2009-10 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's Quest for Peace Award. Two families are earnestly preparing for the wedding between Yamua and Jiwan in a small village of what is soon to become Pakistan. The year is 1947, and the impending violence of partition, the reckless slaughter of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs is drawing closer and closer. The wedding day is not thwarted and the couple unites in an emotional intimacy, which is quickly threatened by the political havoc at bay. After a horrific massacre where Jiwan is wounded, Yamuna desperately attempts to stitch back the pieces of her life, as she is threatened by a chorus of vultures.

MTWorks annual Underworld V will be on Sunday, December 5th 2011 at 7pm at The Triad NYC (158 West 72nd Street). The annual one-night only benefit event featuring Broadway's hottest understudies performing and sharing their stories. The MTWorkologues 3.0 will be on Sunday, April 29th 2012 where company playwrights write monologues inspired by the plays in the sixth season. Read by company actor members.

In February, MTWorks will host the 2012 National NewBorn Festival, a flagship program for MTWorks, created to find talented emerging playwrights from across the US, introduce their work to the New York community, and open new doors to regional voices. In this sixth year, the festival is accepting musical submissions for the first time. Many of the selections from past NewBorn Festivals have been produced by MTWorks and other notable companies. There are two awards: The Audience Favorite Award (voted on by the audience) which will garner the winning play a second reading by a sister theater company to be announced, and The Excellence in Playwriting Award (decided by the MTWorks' Board of Directors).

Maieutic Theatre Works (MTWorks), is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company based in NYC that premieres distinctive new plays, bringing Broadway caliber to Off-Off Broadway audiences since 2006. Now home to both emerging and established theater professionals, MTWorks' mission is to birth new plays inspired by playwrights and regions outside of New York.

Past productions include FLASHBACKS a 5th year anniversary celebration at the June Havoc Theater, directed by David Stallings; David Stallings' The Family Shakespeare at the June Havoc Theater, directed by Antonio Minino; The 2011 National NewBorn Festival hosted by The City College of New York; Underworld IV hosted by Tym Moss (TalkRadio's Artists Exposed) at The Triad NYC (Benefit); Cody Daigle's A Home Across the Ocean at Theatre Row, directed by Cristina Alicea; Carol Carpenter's Good Lonely People at The Robert Moss Theatre (Winner of 3 Planet Connections Theatre Awards; Best Supporting Actress, Best New Playwright, Activist Award), directed by Diánna Martin; David Stallings' Barrier Island at Center Stage NY, directed by Cristina Alicea; The 2010 National NewBorn Festival at Asya Geisberg Studio, various directors; Underworld: Duets, hosted by Tony nominee Willy Falk (Miss Saigon) at The Triad NYC (Benefit) ; 4 Variations of Mee at Manhattan Children's Theatre, various directors; Louise Flory's Look After You at The SoHo Playhouse (FringeNYC 09), directed by David Stallings; Jacqueline Goldfinger's The Oath at The Arclight Theater, directed by Cristina Alicea; The 2009 National NewBorn Festival at The ArcLight Theater, various directors; Into the Underworld: A Broadway Understudy Tell All...With Music, hosted by Katie Adams & Julie Bieber (Wicked) at The Triad NYC (Benefit); David Stallings' Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell at The Connelly Theater, directed by Cristina Alicea (FringeNYC 08); Cody Daigle's Providence at The Rock Theatre, directed by Ian Crawford; Underworld: A Night With Broadway's Understudies, hosted by Law Tarello (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) at The D-Lounge (Benefit); The 2008 National NewBorn Festival at The Payan Theatre, various directors; David Stallings's Arpeggio at The 45th Street Theatre, directed by Cristina Alicea; The 2007 National NewBorn Festival at The Payan Theatre, various directors; and David Stallings' Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs at The Rock Theatre, directed by Cristina Alicea. www.mtworks.org