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Announcing our 2010-2011 Season

Opening with a US premiere October 1

We've now scheduled our 2010-2011 season of professional theater, presenting two plays new to Middle Tennessee audiences, and the return of the our annual Women’s Work showcase of performing and visual arts at Nashville’s Z. Alexander Looby Theater. And, we're proud to announce that last year’s successful Warriors Don’t Cry will be touring Nashville area schools.

Season Opener: A U.S. Premiere

Our fourth season opens October 1 with the U.S. professional premiere of Unravelling the Ribbon, by the Irish playwrights Mary Kelly and Maureen White. The play is a tender, often hilarious exploration of the lives of three women. 34 year-old Rose lives on a farm with her husband and two children, wondering if she married too young. Lola, in her 50s, is selling her house, and feeling overwhelmed by the task. Lyndsey, at 11, is worried that her best friend has stopped sitting beside her in art class. When breast cancer intrudes, everything begins to unravel. The Irish Independent calls the play “...glowingly touching and truthful, deeply gentle and lovely.” The production coincides with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we are working on partnerships with cancer-focused organizations.

February 2011: Impressionism

For our winter 2011 production opening February 25, Founder and Artistic Director Maryanna Clarke has chosen another regional premiere, Impressionism, by Michael Jacobs. This comedy is set in a small art gallery where the owner, Katharine and her assistant, Thomas, have been hiding out from a world that has shattered them both. As they gradually open their hearts, they learn that love is not always painted in realistic style, and discover the art of repairing broken lives. In its review, the New Yorker magazine praised the play’s “brazen sweetness and openhearted humor.” Look for surprises involving local artists, and cross-promotions with the thriving Nashville gallery scene.

Women's Work Returns

The Fifth Annual Women’s Work celebration and showcase rounds out the season, opening May 6. The presenters are still to be chosen, but we're confident the 2011 edition of Women’s Work will offer a stimulating mix of theater, dance, music, film and visual arts that's bigger than ever.

Warriors Don't Cry on Tour

In a new undertaking, we will also be presenting our acclaimed one-woman show, Warriors Don’t Cry in dozens of performances in Nashville area schools. Warriors, based on the memoir of Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine, attracted attention from schools during its run in September, 2009. “After our Looby Theater run," says Maryanna, "We were invited to perform Warriors at Montgomery Bell Academy, University School of Nashville, Harpeth Hall and as far away as Motlow State College in Lynchburg. We’ll be doing more of that this year, but we wanted to find a way to make the show affordable for public school kids as well.”

We have received grants that will fully fund some two dozen performances in Metro Nashville schools, at no charge to the students or the schools. “We’re grateful and excited that we can present this important work as a gift to Metro students,” says Maryanna.

For more information, tickets and reservations, call us at 615-681-7220 or email TWTP.

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