Teatro Circulo Presents THE TENDER MERCIES 4/14

Zig thought he could talk his way out of anything. That is, until he met Rose. Now he finds himself locked away, playing a very dangerous game. Welcome to The Tender Mercies, where the only difference between wordplay and a war game is a weapon.

Written by Montenegrin playwright Sladjana Vujovic, The Tender Mercies is loosely based on events that occurred during the Bosnian Civil War. "Sladjana

Vujovic mimes mundaneness of evil with playful wit and measured menace." -Sunday Times, Edinburgh Directed by Jessi D. (Thirty

Story Masterpieces at the Red Fern Theatre at Centerstage NY; It or Her extended at the Frigid Festival; Lucinda's Bed at Chicago Dramatists; Creating Illusion at soloNOVA Arts Festival, winner of two NYIT Awards; and Angel Eaters with Flux Theatre Ensemble, nominated for six NYIT Awards), the play stars Jim Kane (Dead Man's Cell Phone, Teaser Cow), Christina Bennett Lind (The Odd Couple, Mary's Wedding), and Gregory Waller (Angel Eaters, Bald Soprano). The production team includes lighting designer Mike Riggs, set designer James Hunting, costume designer Paul Carey, and sound designer/composer Nathan Leigh.

The production stage manager is Colleen M. Sherry; the violence director is Marius Hanford and the dramatugs are Jessica Kaplow Applebaum and Amanda Culp. About the PlaywrightSladjana
Vujovic is an award-winning, published author of stage plays and short stories, as well as an acclaimed theatre director and actress. Born in Montenegro (Former Yugoslavia), she lives in London, writes in English, and translates between English and several Balkan languages, including Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. The Tender Mercies was commissioned and first
produced by Mania Productions and performed in the United Kingdom and throughout continental Europe. It took the Fringe First prize in the 1993 Edinburgh Festival. Her myriad writing credits include Hunt, commissioned and produced by Kazzum Theatre Company in London; A Place in the Sun, first produced by Arts World Productions; Romance D'Carnaval, a stage script for a dance-drama commissioned and produced by ArtLAT and written with Myriam Ojeda Patino; Gilgamesh,
first produced by Budva City InterNational Theatre Festival, Montenegro; Butterfly Effect,
first produced by Mania Productions; and The Boat, a short story, published by Sodobnost in Slovenia.

About the Director

Jessi D. Hill's recent productions include: Tommy Smith's Thirty Story Masterpieces (Red Fern Theatre at Centerstage NY), Alena's Smith's It or Her (Horse Trade Theatre Group/Frigid Festival), Mia McCullough's Lucinda's Bed (Chicago Dramatists), Jeff Grow's Creating Illusion (terraNOVA Collective's soloNOVA Arts Festival, Winner of two NYIT Awards), and Johnna Adams' Angel Eaters (Flux Theatre Ensemble, Nominate for six NYIT Awards). Jessi is currently Director of terraNOVA Collective's Groundbreakers new play development program and has developed new plays with
companies including The New Group, The Lark Play Development Center, The Playwrights Realm, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Diverse City and Youngblood. Jessi has served as Staff Repertory Director for The Acting Company, Director-in-Residence at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and is currently a guest director at NYU and Fordham University. In Chicago, Jessi was a freelance director and artistic director of Stage Left Theatre, an ensemble company dedicated to developing and producing new plays that raise debate and challenge perspectives on political and social issues. A recipient of the Denham Fellowship from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, Jessi was recently named a finalist for the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

About One Year Lease

Founded in 2000, One Year Lease (OYL) is an ensemble theater company made up of seven actors, four designers, two dramaturgs, and one artistic director who work together to produce high-quality, provocative theater. The ensemble, featuring American and International Artists, performs
in New York and abroad. We also host a summer apprenticeship program in northern Greece, where college students work, live, and study with OYL actors, designers, and directors. Sladjana Vujovic is creating a new play, Hunger, for the OYL ensemble. It will be presented at Teatro Circulo in the spring of 2011.

OYL's recent productions: Clay McLeod Chapman's teaser cow (Teatro Circulo, New York); Eugene
Ionesco's Bald Soprano (Teatro Circulo, New York); Ariel Dorfman's The Resistance Trilogy, which includes Reader (The New York International Fringe Festival), Death and the Maiden (Theatro Imeras, Athens, Greece), and Widows (performed throughout northern Greece); Brendan Cowell's Bed; Caridad Svich's Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell that Was Once her Heart (a rave fable) (Walkerspace, New York); and PHAEDRA x 3, which featured Racine's Phèdre, Matthew
Maguire's Phaedra, and Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love (Monodendri, Greece, and The Cherry Lane Theatre, New York).

To buy tickets: http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-tender-mercies_166912/

For more information: www.oneyearlease.org

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