Stripped Down 2
Professional Play Reading Series
Featuring new, bold, hot plays!
Edmonton, Alberta
April 16-18 2010
All proceeds went to Edmonton Artists Urban Village
A chapter of PAL Canada
STRIPPED DOWN TURNS UP THE HEAT!
Award-winning, in-your-face, and provocative are some of the superlatives highlighting this year’s lineup of the Stripped Down professional play reading series presented by Theatre Yes.
Featuring three gritty, controversial and aggressive works by acclaimed playwrights who represent the next wave of theatre in the English-speaking world. Experience the aesthetic intensity of the readings and discover why these plays have received countless accolades.
STRIPPED DOWN LINE UP
Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
By Mark Ravenhill (England)
Directed by Kevin Sutley
The drama marks the Edmonton debut of a play by Ravenhill, notorious for a scorching aggression and explicit wordplay that leaps from his scripts. Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of short plays surveying the impact of the war of - and on - terror, reverberating between battle-scarred Iraq to oh-so-cosy North America. Winner of the First Fringe Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
“Ravenhill is one of our most significant and consistently interesting living dramatists…” — The Times
Bone Cage
By Catherine Banks (Canada)
Directed by Amy DeFelice
Bone Cage is an urgent, poetic and darkly humorous look at life where stripping the environment means stripping your soul. Jamie operates a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured birds and animals and rescues those he can. Jamie’s desire to escape this world is thwarted by his fear of leaving the place where he has some status. Winner of the 2008 Governor General”s Award for Drama.
“With her expert command of dramatic metaphor, Catherine Banks shows us the life blood of rural Canada flowing through the conflicted bone caged heart.” — Governor General’s Literary Jury
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By Peter Nachtrieb (USA)
Directed by Heather Inglis
The most produced play in the United States this year! A grad student’s online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his subterranean research lab under the pretense of an evening of “no strings attached” sex. But when a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, their date takes on evolutionary significance and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
“A grandly whacked-out apocalypse fantasy” one of those charmed evenings.” — Washington Post.