New Village Arts Announces Upcoming Events

1. New Play Festival / 3 New Plays in 3 Weeks
New Village Arts continues to honor our commitment to bring new works of art to the San Diego community with a month-long festival of new plays! Tickets are $15 per show or $39 for a Festival Pass.

NEW PLAY FESTIVAL:
I AM THE MACHINE GUNNER - November 12-14, 2010 *Third stop in the World premiere tour of the American adaptation
PICTURING MY SISTER - November 19-21, 2010 *A World Premiere
A CHRISTMAS CAROL - November 26-28, 2010 *A New Adaptation

Festival show times are Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sundays at 2PM

2. I AM THE MACHINE GUNNER
I AM THE MACHINE GUNNER produced by Generous Company, is on the third stop of its World Premiere tour. In a poetic, vulgar, violent and aggressive translation of Yury Klavdiev's work that transcends time, place and person; the play strives to capture the struggle of a young Russian gang member trying to find the same honor in his own battles that his grandfather found fighting Germany in World War II. This one man show features Equity actor James Knight, most recently seen in San Diego in ALIVE AND WELL at the Old Globe Theatre and is directed by David M. White

Running November 12-14, 2010 performances are Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm.

Tickets are $15 and available here or by calling the box office at 760-433-3245.
3. PICTURING MY SISTER
The second play in the festival is Renee Moreno's PICTURING MY SISTER, running November 19-21, 2010. NVA produced a reading of this play last year and will now take it to the next level, with a fully staged workshop performance. PICTURING MY SISTER is an incredibly timely romantic comic-drama about a young woman preparing for her sister's wedding while unable to get married herself because she loves another woman. Her story is intermingled with that of her Mexican-American grandfather who was a soldier in World War II. This beautiful piece about civil rights, love and understanding will be directed by NVA's Executive Artistic Director Kristianne Kurner.

Running November 19-21, 2010 performances are Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm.

Tickets are $15 and available here or by calling the box office at 760-433-3245.

4. A CHRISTMAS CAROL:
Closing the New Play Festival November 26-28, 2010, will be a workshop production of a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL, written by NVA Ensemble Member Rachael VanWormer and Brian Mackey. This minimalist telling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol celebrates the language of the novel, with ninety-eight percent of the script taken verbatim from Dickens' own words. The pared back production focuses on the humanity of the characters, the idea of appreciating however much - or little - one has, and hones in on, as Dickens' wrote in the foreword to the book, "raising the ghost of an idea" - that, despite the worst odds, any individual has within them the power to change for the better.

Running November 26-28, 2010 performances are Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm. (This is the only professional Christmas Carol production in all of North County this season! Don't miss it!)

Tickets are $15 and available online or by calling the box office at 760-433-3245.

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