2005

Baghdad Burning:
Girl Blog
From Iraq

Adapted by Kim Kefgen and Loren Noveck

Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll

Since August 2003, an anonymous 25-year-old Iraqi woman known as "Riverbend" has chronicled her day-to-day life as an educated Muslim woman in occupied Iraq on her blog, http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com. In Baghdad Burning, which was presented as part of Women Center Stage 2005, a diverse ensemble cast uses music, movement, and monologues to explore America's encounter with Riverbend's complex reality: her love for Iraq and its people, the devastation of the war and occupation, and her mounting fear as fundamentalists gain power and limit the freedoms she once enjoyed.

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2005

BORDER/CLASH:
A Litany of Desires

Written and performed by Staceyann Chin

Directed by Rob Urbinati

“ferocious and slyly funny”
– The New York Times
“Capable of fostering a revolution ... Chin is giving voice to an entire population made silent by fear.”
– Variety
In 2005, Culture Project and Ira Pittelman presented BORDER/CLASH: A Litany of Desires, Staceyann Chin's autobiographical portrait of a woman evolving. From her Jamaican upbringing, we see a young girl negotiating family ties as she struggles with abandonment and rejection, all the while grappling with the misadventures of coming of age, and coming face to face with intolerable homophobia. In blunt and wistful prose, Chin opens and examines the wounds and rapture of adolescence. Upon moving to New York City, she discovers a voice in sensual lyricism and slam activism as she tears into poems with a pulsing physicality.

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2005

Caney Creek Productions presents

Karla

Written by Steve Earle

Directed by Bruce Kronenberg

A new play by Grammy Award winning singer songwriter Steve Earle, Karla is the story of Karla Faye Tucker, who was sentenced to death and executed in 1998 for a double homicide, making her the first woman in Texas to receive that sentence and have it carried out since the Civil War. The play concerns the events in her life leading up to the murder and her conversion to Christianity while serving time on Death Row. The cast of five includes Obie awarding winning actress Jodie Markell as Karla.

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2005

RFK

Written and performed by Jack Holmes

Directed by Larry Moss

“Jack Holmes becomes Robert F. Kennedy the second he sets foot on the stage, and he does it without phony make-up, gimmickry or exaggerated gestures.”
– Variety, Los Angeles performance
Robert Kennedy’s words, struggles and ideals come to life in this dramatic telling of the short, inspirational life of the would-be President.

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