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A Theatre Reclamation Project: 2+2:
Two Chairs+ Two actors and a Community Venue
WHERE: 40 venues throughout Seattle culminating in a 4 day run of all 6 vignettes at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center.
WHEN: September 16th-October 19th.
About The Play:
From doolee.com-The Playwrights Database
Synopsis: Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works. Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car. Be it the medium for clandestine couplings, arguments, shelter, or ultimately transportation, the automobile is perhaps the most authentically American of spaces. In Autobahn, Neil LaButes provocative new collection of one-act plays set within the confines of the front seat, the playwright employs his signature plaintive insight to great effect, investigating the inchoate apprehension that surrounds the steering wheel. Each of these seven brief vignettes explore the ethos of perception and relationship - from a make-out session gone awry, to a reconnaissance mission involving the rescue of a Nintendo 64, to a daughters long ride home after her release from rehab. The result is an unsettling montage that gradually reveals the scabrous force of words left unsaid while illuminating the delicate interplay between intention and morality, capturing the essence of Middle America and the myriad paths which cross its surface.
About The Theatre Reclamation project:
Over the past 5-10 years, many theatrical venues in the Seattle area have vanished due to increasing real estate prices and the lack of public funding. The Community Theatres goal is to partner with over 40 venues throughout Seattle to provide free, accessible, live performances of quality thought-provoking theatre. With two chairs, two actors, and people watching the work of one of the best American playwrights writing today, we will endeavor to see what happens. At each venue one or more scenes from Neil LaButes Autobahn will be performed. The project will culminate in a 4 day run of all 6 vignettes in October at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center (October 16, 17, 18 at 8:00, October 19 @2:00).
About Neil LaBute:
Neil LaBute is an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter and film director. In 1993, he premiered his play In the Company of Men which was then adapted to film, launching his career as a film director. His next film, Your Friends and Neighbors, was based on his earlier play, Lepers. In 2000, Mr. LaBute refocused his attentions to the stage with Bash: Latter-Day Plays, followed by The Shape of Things in 2001 (which he also made into a film), and The Distance from Here in 2002. His 2002 play, The Mercy Seat, was one of the first major theatrical responses to the September 11 terrorist attack. Other plays include Fat Pig (2004) which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, Some Girls (2005), and This Is How It Goes (2005). His play Reasons to Be Pretty will open on Broadway in February 2009.
Praise:
There is no playwright on the planet these days who is writing better than Neil LaBute.
--John Lahr, The New Yorker
Neil LaBute is the first dramatist since David Mamet and Sam Shepardsince Edward Albee, actually to mix sympathy and savagery, pathos and power.
--Donald Lyons, New York Post
LaBute [is] our American Aesop, a mad moral fabulist serving stiff tonic for our countrys sin-sick souls.
--John Istel, American Theatre
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