Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Work-projects”
Each year, from June – September 2016, Loose Change Productions hosts Summer Sessions, an ad hoc workshop in which playwrights (experienced professionals) may bring anything from a few pages hot off the press to substantial chunks of new plays for cold reads. Their writings, which have included plays, musicals, screenplays, monologues, one-person shows, have been matched up with actors. Over …
Renée Rockoff a fragile case : monoprint / installation October 15 – 16, 2016 A Fragile Case is an installation of assemblages that reflect on life’s temporality, the nature of time and memory. The work grew out of an intuitive process combining printed matter, family heirlooms, architectural details, found objects and natural materials. They are placed in a contextualized space, …
Material Witness is “rowdy and playful, displaying an enormous sense of energy, strength and good will. Yet its subject is dead serious: the physical abuse of indigenous women in the United States and Canada.” ~ Anita Gates, The New York Times Background Spiderwoman Theater is excited to be launching our latest theatre project Material Witness, (formerly Violence- The Next Generation). …
The innovative, hilarious Couples Counseling charts the complicated relationship between a therapist and couple whose relationship is wildly unraveling. As roles continually shift and objects of desire change, the three characters struggle to understand their feelings towards one another and how best to express them. The play makes much use of language as characters speak over one another, finish the …
Red Mother is the story of Belle, an old Native woman who travels across the continent with her horse and companion Blue Fred. Her journey bears witness to the wars and conflicts that have changed the very core of Indigenous life in this country. Red Mother weaves Native stories of genocide with humor, music and dance; Brechtian themes with Kuna …
A testament to survival and pride, Honour is a searing one-woman performance about child prostitutes in Mumbai. Writer, director, and actor Dipti Mehta performed her tale of a young soon-to-be prostitute Rani, on the eve of entering the sex trade in the slums of India, and the attempts of a female journalist to save her. The show premiered at …
