Teatro La Tea & Clout in the Mug Present DOLORES & NORTH of PROVIDENCE

Teatro La Tea and Clout in the Mug Productions are proud to present Dolores and North of Providence, two searing one-act plays by Edward Allan Baker . The production opens on January 26, 2011 and will run through February 12, 2011. Performances will be held at Teatro La Tea, 107 Suffolk Street in New York City. Showtimes are Wednesday - Saturday at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets are $18.00 and are available at www.smarttix.com, by phone (212) 868-4444. Student tickets are available for $12.00 with I.D.

Dolores: What started out for Dolores as a frantic search for shelter ends as usual in her sister Sandra's house, and becomes a reckoning with the mistakes they've made and the limits of acceptance. A harrowing portrait of the evolution of love, Dolores is the story of siblings and spouses, bruises and bullets, in which two sisters with two very different kinds of heartache must confront in their own way not only The Shadows of memory but the anguish behind every routine that life imposes. It takes the punishing love of family and one shocking act of violence to remind them that every kind of love has its own darkness and that every plea for mercy is likewise one for understanding.

"[Dolores]....is constructed so adroitly and the work is so telling that the spectator gets the sensation of being in the room..." - Backstage

North of Providence: Somewhere in the city of Providence a father lays dying. In a darkened room his children come reluctantly together through the disarray of their lives to figure out what keeps them apart and discover finally what it is that keeps them together. A searing one-act as emotionally broad as it is concise, North of Providence examines the rueful accounting all families must face when caught between the burdens of the past and the obligations we undertake to persevere.

"In North of Providence, Edward Allan Baker takes a painful domestic crises and transforms it into a one act play of emotional depth and conviction. An exemplar of the one act art." - New York Times

Edward Allan Baker (Playwright) is a NYC playwright whose plays have been produced all over the United States, Canada and Europe. Other plays include: Rosemary with Ginger, Face Divided, A Dead Man's Apartment, American Storage, The Framer, Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty and Truth, and Lila on the Wall. A screenwriter as well as being a faculty member at Pace University/Actors Studio Drama School, Mr. Baker is a recipient of "The 25th Anniversary Award For Theatrical Excellence," by The Ensemble Studio Theater of New York and is a member of The Dramatists Guild.

"Edward Allan Baker is the real thing, a hard hitting East Coast playwright, with a firm command of the issues of the day." - John Patrick Shanley

Alberto Bonilla (Director) is a New York based director, actor and writer whose recent directing credits include Servant of Two Masters (Secret Theater), Raft of the Medusa, and Clout in the Mug's Look Back in Anger. He is currently in pre-production for a Spanish television pilot and his short film Speed of Love will be premiering in 2011.

Rachel Cornish (Sandra)*: Recently starred in the World Premiere of Nick Starr's The Awesome Dance at the Cherry Pit Theatre (w/ Dileep Rao). In addition to many theater and film credits, Rachel is also the Co-Artistic Director of Speranza Theatre Company in NYC.

Sat Charn Fox (Dolores): Recent theater credits include Julie in Pizza Man and Rosalind in As You Like It. Recent film credits include Into Thin Air (lead) and The Toilet Invitation, which screened in the Big Apple Film Festival. She is also a noted voice-over artist.

 

John Golaszewski (Bobby): Recent theater credits include Brilliant Traces (Henry) and Clout in the Mug's production of Look Back in Anger (Jimmy Porter). Recent film credits include lead roles in As I Live and Breathe (Eddie) and Last Looks (Zack), the latter of which was screened at rthe Cannes Film Festival.

Rebecca Nyahay (Carol): Recently produced and starred in the independant film The Ribbon, (producer and lead) and was the lead in The Haywire Series, Episode 5 (Nikki).

 

* Appears courtesy of Actor's Equity Association.

Production and design team for Dolores & North of Providence includes Erin Mallon (producer), Jasmine Sanchez (stage manager), Rachel Kenner (set designer) and Julie Gordon (co-producer).

Established in 1982, LATEA is one of New York's premier and highly regarded Off-Off Broadway Latino Theaters. It was founded and operates under the direction of two well-known professional stage, film and television actors who are committed to providing opportunities to New York's emerging and professional artists, especially Latinos who would otherwise not have the resources or affordable physical facilities to exhibit their works and talents. As arts advocates LATEA's founders took the initiative of providing much needed leadership to secure and safeguard the continued use of their city-owned property, a struggle that led to the creation of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, where the theater is housed. Its mission is to foster, preserve, promote and maintain the history, literature, cultural values and heritage of the Latin American people, including the Carribbean. To educate North American audiences and the general public of the contributions made by Latinos and to demonstrate the universality of beliefs that bind us all together as universal human beings. It is of the philosophy that the arts should not be for nor by a privleged few, but available to working class people and men from all walks of life.

Location:
Teatro La Tea
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk Street
(between Delancey and Rivington Streets)
212-529-1948
www.teatrolatea.com

Subway: F to Delancey Street; J,M,Z to Delancey - Essex Street

 

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