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Announcing our 2011-2012 Season!
2 area premieres, Women's Work returns, and our first commissioned play
Announcing our 2011-2012 season
Mark your calendar now - Tennessee Women's Theater Project presents another season of firsts: two regional premiere, the world premiere reading and tour of our first commissioned play, and the return of our groundbreaking Women's Work festival, bigger and better than ever. Here's the rundown:
Trying by Joanna McClelland Glass Opens September 30, 2011
Regional premiere! It’s November, 1967, and a young woman has just come to work as a secretary for Judge Francis Biddle, Attorney General to Franklin Roosevelt, and the former Chief Judge of the American Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Now eighty-one and in failing health, Judge Biddle is a Main Line Philadelphia aristocrat. Sarah Schorr, the latest in a series of assistants, is a plain-spoken twenty-five year old from the Canadian prairie. This autobiographical play tells the charming, bittersweet story of an unlikely pair “trying” to understand each other in what they both realize is the final year of his life.
“...a total delight!”
CurtainUP DC
“an intriguing look at a young woman who longs to be a writer,
an old man coming to the end of his life and the development of their friendship”
Arizona Daily Star
7:30 pm – September 30, October 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 & 15
2:30 pm – October 2, 9 & 16
(weekday matinees to be scheduled)
The Disappearance of Janey Jones by Jennifer Fawcett Opens March 2, 2012
U.S. professional premiere! Janey Jones can’t get out of bed. She’s lost her job, her boyfriend has dumped her, and she’s sliding into the kind of serious depression that swallowed her grandmother. Desperate and alone, she watches past and present collide as her room is invaded by a fortune teller, her doctor, her dead grandparents, her ex and her mother – even a vision of her inner child. Can she find a future beyond the darkness, a life worth getting out of bed to explore?
“drenched with wit and intelligence, cleverly balancing dark humour,
an adult’s depression and a child’s energetic optimism… Captivating.”
Monday Magazine, Victoria, BC
“amusing, intelligent and gripping”
The Ottawa Citizen
7:30 pm – March 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16 & 17
2:30 pm –March 4, 11 & 18
(weekday matinees to be scheduled)
Women’s Work 2012 Opens May 4, 2012
TWTP presents its sixth annual celebration and showcase of works by women. Theater, poetry, dance, music, film, visual arts – 11 different performances, at the unbeatable bargain price of $5 per ticket. It’s always a rewarding trip! Presenting Artists To Be Announced.
7:30 pm – May 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 & 19
2:30 pm – May 6, 13 & 20
Our First Commissioned Play Details coming soon
With generous support from Metro Nashville Arts Commission, we are commissioning our first world premiere, which will see its first reading in early 2012, and will appear at non-theater venues around Middle Tennessee in the following months. It’s a story you’ll want to share -- and by a nationally recognized playwright (whose name we can soon reveal)! We’ll be posting the details as soon as we can - First Reading To Be Announced.
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