Posted By: Michael Garvey on: April 10, 2020. Baltimore Center Stage has announced the cast and artistic team for the world premiere of Where We Stand, the fifth mainstage offering of the theater's 2019/20 season. It also talks of what isolation does to a person over time and how we are, at our core, social creatures with an imperative to connect.
Filed Under: Our Reviews Tagged With: baltimore center stage. A storyteller spins a tale of a lonely soul tempted by the devil’s kindness on a fateful trip to the crossroads.
And what might a generative future centered on community and individual care look like? This world premiere production brings together two WP Lab alums: rising-star playwright Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Last Night and the Night Before), and director Tamilla Woodard, whose smash hit 3/fifths the New York Times called “extraordinary” and “relentlessly provocative.”, Black Theater Night Acting credits include Broadway’s In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) and Well, Twelfth Night (The Public Theater/Mobile Unit), O, Earth (The Foundry Theatre), and Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons and Clubbed Thumb), plus many regional theater and film/TV roles. When a town is running low on compassion and a man is stripped of companionship, just one kind stranger can tip the scales.
var F10834_sb_fieldcol='#000000'; To keep abreast of the theater’s efforts and activities, please follow @centerstage_md on … Where We Stand gives us powerful food for thought as to where we want to be when this pandemic is over. February 19, 7p That is very much the case with Where We Stand. } catch(e){} As Resident Dramaturg of Black Theater Commons and New Harmony Project, Phaedra leads our panelists and audience in a conversation about theater born out of the black cultural experience and the necessity for racially diverse audiences. Unassumingly spectacular.” —Theatermania, In a town running low on compassion, an exile seeks forgiveness, forcing the community to decide between mercy or justice.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that in this moment safety looks like physical distance from one another, but how will that play out when restrictions start to be lifted? The heightened language, the use of poetry and song, turn this 70-minute piece into a magic spell, an incantation about human faith and foibles and how we cling to illusion and doing things the way they always have been done. Your email address will not be published. With filmed theater performances, I want so to be there. Where We Stand is a Pied Piper story that doubles as a boldfaced allegory about class and community.
Details and pay per view tickets Post Show Panel Discussion: Performance While Black. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Where We Stand. Your video link will be sent to you in an email on the morning you select and will be available to view for 2 weeks. try{s('F10834_sb');}catch(e){}; Watching Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ spellbinding play Where We Stand made me lonely and aching for theater in a real space in a way I don’t feel, for example, as I watch the new season of the PBS series “Call the Midwife.”. Pay the price that works for you—thinking, of course, about the number of people who will be watching with you. To join us on Facebook In this conversation between playwright/performer Donnetta Lavinia Grays and BCS Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra, learn about the origins of the play, what it means to create theater without a fourth wall, and why this is the play we need right now. It is rich in its language…bouncing with rhyme, alliteration and wordplay.” —The New York Times, “Magical! Jayne Blanchard has been covering theater for decades, starting in Washington, D.C. then the Twin Cities, and back to D.C. again in 1999, where she was theater critic for The Washington Times until 2010, when she happily joined the DCTS crew. People barely acknowledge him or even wave to him as he does monotonous, back-breaking work on the plot of land his mother left him. Where We Stand is a Pied Piper story that doubles as a boldfaced allegory about class and community. This play contains consumption of alcoholic beverages. } Donnetta Lavinia Grays. Regional: Repertory Theater of Saint Louis, Shakespeare Theater Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theater of Louisville, Barrington Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Triad Stage, Crossroads Theater Company, California Shakespeare Theater, etc.
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For any issues, please email or call the Box Office. Scenic Design: Claire DeLiso. This brand-new fable of penance is filled with humor, heart, and music. Once you register, you will receive an email within 24 hours with details about how to access the conversation. Where We Stand tells the tale of Man, a sort of griot figure, living and toiling on the edge of a town. The play also poses significant questions about the true definition of a community and some places that appear to be humming and supportive are actually illusions built on the wishes of what the citizens want their neighborhood to look like from the outside, rather than what it is—exclusionary and judgmental. April 9, 2020 by Jayne Blanchard Leave a Comment. The camera work is fluid and subtly circular, circumventing that flatness you often encounter in a filmed live production. Michael Ross, Executive Director One thing we know is that we can’t go back. When you purchase a ticket, you will also receive: After you experience the video recording, download this packet for resources to facilitate conversations, opportunities to dig deeper into the play’s questions, and ways to take action in Baltimore. Where We Stand is available through April 26, 2020. If you’re a ticket holder, you’ll receive your virtual access the morning of your performance. That said, this social and emotional isolation we are currently experiencing actually works in favor of this one-person piece about loneliness and what makes up a community. 55 West End Avenue rotating performances with David Ryan Smith beginning February 15, Where We Stand is a co-world premiere by WP Theater and Baltimore Center Stage, “ENCHANTING LYRICS and FLOURISHES OF HUMOR! Her work has been supported by The Public Theater, New Harmony Project, Berkeley Rep, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Labyrinth Theater Company, New York Theater Workshop, and more. Where We Stand is available through April 26, 2020. Harm reduction in Baltimore has looked like everything from safe injection sites to increased Narcan trainings to measures to decriminalize drug possession. Choose your performance!
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