ONE NATION, INDETERMINABLE Premieres 6/10 at Suffolk University's Modern Theatre
By: A.A. Cristi May. 16, 2017
The readings will feature the work of a company of Suffolk University alumni actors and directors and guest actor Ben Evett of The Poets' Theatre.
Says Savick: "One Nation, Indeterminable is our urgent, theatrical and celebratory response to the current national climate. We passionately believe in theatre's unique capacity to illuminate our collective hopes and fears. These brand new works are offered as a gift intended to engage the hearts, minds and imaginations of the Boston community."
He continues with co-producer Ben Evett, "We have taken this initiative because we believe that the role for theatre in the time of Trump is one that has to be created. We feel there is an urgency which must not be ignored. We welcome everyone to share this day with us."
The five plays will be read in two sessions. Robert Brustein's play (title forthcoming) and James Carroll's play Midnight Ride will be read at 2:00 pm. At 7:00, the company will read Nick Wilson's Polis, Theo Goodell's I Live on Land, and Wesley Savick's new musical one state, two state / red state, blue state.
One Nation, Indeterminable is co-produced by The Suffolk University Theatre Department and The Poets' Theatre and will be presented on June 10th at the Modern Theatre.
ABOUT THE SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY THEATRE DEPARTMENT
The Suffolk University Theatre Department is a student-centered department. Students write, direct, and design their own original plays and intern with leading theatre companies, both at Suffolk's Modern Theatre and with organizations throughout the United States. Students work in classic, musical, and experimental genres with a special focus on new work. In 1987, founding Artistic Director Marilyn Plotkins created the Boston Music Theatre Project (BMTP) to nurture new musicals of exceptional promise through readings and workshop productions.
ABOUT SUFFOLK UNIVERSITYSuffolk University, located in historic downtown Boston, with an international campus in Madrid, is a student-centered institution distinguished by excellence in education and scholarship. Suffolk University offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in more than 90 areas of study. Its mission is to empower graduates to be successful locally, regionally, and globally.
ABOUT THE MODERN THEATRE AT SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University is the newest performance space in the Washington Street Theater District. The grand facade of the historic theater, Boston's first designed specifically for showing movies, has been painstakingly restored and reconstructed as part of the Modern Theatre and residence hall development. Inside, an intimate jewel-box theater showcases central design elements that are a modernization of some of the most distinctive historic features of the 1914 theater. The state-of-the-art, 185-seat venue is ideal for live performances, conversations, readings and film screenings and promotes excellence and innovation through all of its programming. For more about these and other programs at the Modern visit www.moderntheatre.com. The Modern Theatre is managed and programmed by the Theatre Department at Suffolk University www.suffolk.edu/theatre.
ABOUT THE POETS' THEATRE
The Poets' Theatre aspires to elevate the poetic possibilities of the theatre. We invite audiences to share in the universal languages of poetry and theatre, which imbue every element, including language, lighting, movement, sound, and space, with multiple meanings, allowing us to express the otherwise inexpressible. We celebrate the work of poets past and present, and innovate new ways of theatre-making that electrify audiences and illuminate the vast and beautiful diversity of the human experience.
ABOUT Robert Brustein
Robert Brustein (Playwright) is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright and educator. He founded both Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT and The American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA and has been the theatre critic for The New Republic since 1959. He comments on politics for the Huffington Post. Brustein is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University and a former Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Suffolk University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999 and in 2002 was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. In 2003 he served as a Senior Fellow with the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University, and in 2004 and 2005 was a senior fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Institute in Theatre and Musical Theatre at the University of Southern California. Robert Brustein is married to Doreen Beinart, and has one son, Daniel Brustein, two grandchildren, Maxwell Stephen and Robert Sebastian, and two stepchildren, Peter Beinart and Jean Beinart, each with two children.
ABOUT James Carroll
James Carroll (Playwright) is the author of eleven novels, most recently Warburg in Rome ("his most splendid work of fiction to date" - NPR); and eight works of non-fiction, most recently Christ Actually: Reimagining Faith in the Modern Age ("at once stunningly original and strangely familiar, a testament to the power of a critical, creative faith" - Boston Globe). Other books include the National Book Award winning An American Requiem; the New York Times bestselling Constantine's Sword, now an acclaimed documentary; House of War, which won the first PEN-Galbraith Award; and Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which was named a 2011 Best Book by Publishers Weekly. He lectures widely, both in the United States and abroad, and contributes occasional essays to NEWYORKER.COM
He lives in Boston with his wife, the novelist Alexandra Marshall. His new novel, The Cloister, will be published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday.
ABOUT WESLEY SAVICK
WESLEY SAVICK (Artistic Director of One Nation, Indeterminable, playwright and director) has served as Artistic Director of Theatre X in Milwaukee, interim Artistic Director of the Drama League of New York's Directors Project, Artistic Associate of Chicago's Organic Theatre and guest director-in-residence at the DARTS Subaru Theatre in Tokyo, Japan. He received a prestigious bunka-cho grant from the Japanese Ministry of Culture which enabled him to study traditional Japanese theatre and music in Tokyo for a year. He has directed or acted in over one hundred professional productions, almost all new works. He has written, co-written or adapted twenty-three plays. His Car Talk: The Musical!!!, based on the NPR show "Car Talk," premiered at Suffolk's Modern Theatre and had a professional production at the Central Square Theater. In 2016, Suffolk collaborated with the Boston Playwrights' Theatre to present the professional production of Savick's adaptation of Rhinoceros. Savick is the Founding Director of The National Theatre of Allston, an independent initiative established exclusively for Suffolk students and alumni to transition into the professional Boston theatre.
Modern Theatre, 525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111. General Admission: 2pm ($5), 7pm ($5). Call 866-811-4111 or visit www.moderntheatre.com.
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