As the professional theatre company in residence at Nova Southeastern University, TPT ushers in this new partnership with an exciting 3rd season. The Promethean Theatre announces its 2006-2007 season which will be the first full season in residence at Nova Southeastern University, Farquar College of Arts & Sciences. The entire season will be performed in the beautiful Mailman Hollywood Theatre located on the 2nd floor of the Mailman Hollywood Center at 3301 College Ave., Ft Lauderdale, FL 33314. Performances will be Friday & Saturday at 8:00pm and Sunday at 2:00 & 7:00pm.The 2006-2007 season will open with the Florida premiere of AFTER ASHLEY by Gina Gionfriddo (Safe, U.S. Drag, Guinevere.) One of the hottest new playwrights, Gionfriddo has received an Obie Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a Lucille Lortel Fellowship and an American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg Citation for her work.
AFTER ASHLEY will run October 13-November 5, 2006. SYNOPSIS: In this wickedly funny and heartbreakingly truthful satire, a teenage boy navigating the joys and terrors of life, is unwillingly thrust into the national spotlight when a family tragedy becomes talk-show fodder. Focusing a critical eye on our obsession with reality TV and public grieving, this critically-acclaimed new work takes a no-holds barred look at how the American media blurs the line between reporting the truth and exploiting it. "Shrewd, dark comedy…absorbing and wholly unpredictable…AFTER ASHLEY is a work that virtually any audience would find accessible." —NY Times. "Sick, ugly, and brilliantly funny... In Gionfriddo's plays, as in all great plays, no one is wrong, everyone is right." — Brooklyn Rail. "Write down the name Gina Gionfriddo. Deft characterization, caustic humor, and well-deployed nips at the American slack moral conscience make AFTER ASHLEY one of the necessary shows to see this year…a play for the decade." —NY Sun.
2006-07 SEASON AFTER ASHLEY By GINA GIONFRIDDO/ Directed by Margaret M. Ledford/ October 13- November 5, 2006 FLORIDA PREMIERE In this wickedly funny and heartbreakingly truthful satire, a teenage boy is unwillingly thrust into the national spotlight when a family tragedy becomes talk-show fodder. Focusing a critical eye on our obsession with reality TV and public grieving, this critically- acclaimed new work takes a no-holds barred look at how the American media blurs the line between reporting the truth and exploiting it.RED TIDE By JUAN C. SANCHEZ/ Directed by Margaret M. Ledford/ April-May 2007 WORLD PREMIERE Carbonell nominated for last season's critcally acclaimed BUCK FEVER, TPT's resident playwright Juan C. Sanchez is back with a brand new play. Dark and twisted, this three person drama will have you on the edge of your seat!CYRANO DE BERGERAC Written by EDMOND ROSTAND / Directed by Margaret M. Ledford / Summer 2007 TPT is proud to bring to the stage this classic swashbuckling tale of love and mistaken identity.
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