REVOLVE Detroit, TO SAVE ONE and More Set for Magenta Giraffe Theatre, Fall 2013
By: Molly Tracy Sep. 05, 2013
Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company of Detroit has announced three new programs. A series of improv performances through REVOLVE Detroit and a group dedicated to workshopping new work by local playwrights will begin this September. The third project is a partnership with the novelist ElizaBeth Dembrowsky.
REVOLVE Detroit Improv Series
The first in a series of three improv performances through REVOLVE Detroit will take place as part of the Detroit Design Festival on September 20, 2013. Events and programming will be happening up and down Livernois that day as REVOLVE Detroit's "Art + Retail on the Ave" project also launches. Magenta Giraffe's performance will begin at 5:00 p.m. in an outdoor space on Livernois just south of Outer Drive, between two buildings. The event will feature local favorites Lauren Bickers, Dave Davies, Shawn Handlon and Mikey Wilson. Admission is free. More information on subsequent performances, happening in October and November, will be forthcoming.
For more information on REVOLVE Detroit, please visit www.revolvedetroit.com.
Playwrights Group
Magenta Giraffe is offering playwrights a new opportunity to gain valuable insight into their work by participating in a series of ongoing monthly workshops. Actors, directors and producers are invited to attend and participate as well. The workshop is designed to act as an avenue for fellow professionals to meet, share talents and work with playwrights to develop scripts to a production-ready level.
At each monthly workshop, selected scripts are read for the group by attending actors, followed by a discussion session led by a Magenta Giraffe facilitator. The first workshop is scheduled to take place on Sunday, September 22, 2013, at 6:00 p.m. at a location in Detroit to be determined.
Experienced professionals and students are encouraged to attend. Please RSVP to sallyjane@magentagiraffe.org and let us know your area of expertise or interest - playwright, actor, director. You will receive a reply with further details and a specific location address.
To Save One
Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company and author ElizaBeth Dembrowsky of New York City are partnering on an experimental piece of art that bridges the gap between theatre and literature. Dembrowsky's TO SAVE ONE explores the story of an American-born woman and a Romanian-born man who meet in New York, fall in love, want to get married, but have to convince the American government to let them spend the rest of their lives together in the United States. But the story is not just about one couple, or one train of thought, or one country. It is about everyone's love, all of our needs, and the hope that grit and hard work will eventually win out.
The staged reading of TO SAVE ONE at Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company will be performed in autumn of 2014. Various other programs and workshops related to the novel will be announced as the artistic process progresses.
Donations towards the production of To Save One are deeply appreciated and may be made at http://www.razoo.com/story/To-Save-One or at www.magentagiraffe.org.
About the author: Elizabeth David-Dembrowsky serves as the Executive Director of Keren Or, Inc. (www-keren-or.org). Her novel My Monk was published in 2009 by Heliotrope Books. She holds a BA from Boston University and a Masters in Writing from the University of Warwick, and she hopes to have her JD from Brooklyn Law School in the spring of 2014. She lives in New York City with her husband and her law books.
The Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company is a nonprofit organization that acts to eliminate apathy, violence, prejudice and barriers to education through theatre productions, projects and programs; and further acts to reestablish and expand Detroit's theatre district.
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