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InterAct Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA) presents the Philadelphia premiere production of MICROCRISIS. Written by Mike Lew. Directed by Seth Rozin. Featuring Kevin Bergen, Frank X, Hannah Gold, Dave Johnson, Bi Jean Ngo, and Maia Desanti. Video and editing by Thiasus Films.
Fast on the heels of the current recession, InterAct Theatre takes a humorously panoramic view of global finance with the scathing new satire MICROCRISIS. Described by Time Out New York as, "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the financially dispossessed...," MICROCRISIS looks at what happens when wheeler-dealers on Wall Street use the Nobel Prize-winning concept of microcredit to ravage the world economy. Bouncing seamlessly between the U.S., Ghana, and Monaco, the rapid-fire story follows a smart, slick, big-vision banker as he draws a gaggle of innocent do-gooders into an outrageous global lending scheme. Never stopping to consider the destruction in their wake, the banker and his unwitting accomplices try desperately to stay one step ahead of the game.
On stage January 20 - February 12, 2012.
More information available at www.InterActTheatre.org.
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InterAct Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA) presents the Philadelphia premiere production of THE HOW AND THE WHY. Written by Sarah Treem. Directed by Seth Rozin. Featuring Janis Dardaris & Victoria Frings. Video and editing by Thiasus Films.
Opening InterAct Theatre's 2011/2012 Season, THE HOW AND THE WHY takes place on the eve of a prestigious conference where an up-and-coming evolutionary biologist wrestles for the truth with an established leader in the field. Their real challenge has been negotiating the fiercely male-dominated enterprise of academic science, where a female perspective is considered...until now. But the two trail blazing women share more than a passion for science, as the revelation of long-held secrets threatens to change their personal trajectories. Evolution and emotion collide in this thought-provoking new play about science, family and the survival of the fittest. Inspired by the best-selling book "Woman: An Intimate Geography" by New York Times writer Natalie Angier.
On stage October 21 - November 13, 2011.
More information available at www.InterActTheatre.org.
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InterAct Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA) presents the World Premiere production of IN A DAUGHTER'S EYES. Written by A. Zell Williams. Directed by Rebecca Wright. Featuring Lynnette R. Freeman & Krista Apple. Video and editing by Thiasus Films.
Winner of the National New Play Network's 2011 Smith Prize, which recognizes the year's best new political play, In A Daughter's Eyes is an intense and timely new drama inspired by the true story of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Set in Oakland, CA around the turn of the millennium, In A Daughter's Eyes follows the fictional story of two daughters -- one the child of a Black Panther revolutionary and the other of the white police officer he allegedly shot and killed twenty years earlier. Though these two strong-minded women are initially brought together in search of truth, their views on culture, class, and race push them into an uneasy world of violence and mistrust. Locked in the battle that has defined their families' legacies for decades, these quintessentially American daughters must fight to find a balance between justice and forgiveness.
On stage May 27 -- June 19, 2011.
More information available at www.InterActTheatre.org.
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InterAct Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA) presents the regional premiere of LIDLESS. Written by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig. Directed by Seth Rozin. Featuring Kittson O'Neill, Ed Swidey, J. Paul Nicholas, Gamze Ceylan, and Sarah Van Auken. Video and editing by Thiasus Films.
Commissioned by InterAct Theatre in 2009 through its 20/20 New Play Commission program, LIDLESS tells the story of Alice, who in the fifteen years since serving in the U.S. Army as an interrogator at Guantánamo Bay has successfully reinvented herself and suppressed all memories of her prior life — mostly through the aid of pharmaceuticals. She now lives contentedly, if not passionately, in Minnesota with her loving husband and precocious teenage daughter. That is, until Bashir, a Pakistani Muslim, shows up at Alice's flower shop and asks for part of her liver as compensation for the suffering he endured as one of her detainees. The request sets into motion a series of visceral and spiritual encounters among six characters whose lives will be forever connected and defined by a single act of inhumanity. This daring and beautiful new play is at once searingly poetic and incisively political as it explores the nature of trauma, the conflicting eroticism and brutality of violence, and the blurry line between revenge and redemption.
On stage January 21 -- February 13, 2011.
More information available at www.InterActTheatre.org.
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