More Details About The Alcyone Festival 2010
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Website: http://www.halcyontheatre.org/productions/seasonfour/alcyone10
Each summer Halcyon produces The Alcyone Festival, celebrating female playwrights. Because female playwrights are horribly represented on stages across America, Halcyon Theatre created The Alcyone Festival to combat this directly, by celebrating the depth and breadth of women writers.
“When we were thinking of a theme for this year's Alcyone Festival,” says Artistic Director Tony Adams, “everything we thought of hovered around Irene. So we decided to focus this year on her. I think she has had a greater impact on the American Theatre than any writer other than Eugene O'Neill, but most people don't know much of her work.”
"When I feel sick of plays, writing, theatre, the whole business, I sometimes think of yours and I get a flicker of what it is I like about it all..." --Caryl Churchill, from A Poem for Maria Irene Fornes.
"America has produced no dramatist of greater importance than Maria Irene Fornes... Her plays and productions profoundly altered my understanding of what theatre is..." --Tony Kushner
The festival features: Letters from Cuba directed by Juan Castañeda, Manual for a Desperate Crossing directed by Coya Paz, Sarita directed by Gina LoPiccolo, Summer in Gossensass directed by Lavina Jadhwani, What of the Night directed by Margo Gray.
Week 1
Thursday, January 21; 8pm Letters From Cuba
Friday, January 22; 8pm; Sarita
Saturday, January 23; 3pm; What of the Night
Saturday, January 23; 8:00pm; Summer in Gossensass
Sunday, January 24; 6pm; Manual for a Desperate Crossing
Week 2
Thursday, January 28; 8pm; Sarita
Friday, January 29; 8pm; What of the Night
Saturday, January 30; 3pm; Summer in Gossensass
Saturday, January 30; 8pm; Manual for a Desperate Crossing
Sunday, January 31; 6pm; Letters From Cuba
Week 3
Thursday, February 4; 8pm; Manual for a Desperate Crossing
Friday, February 5; 8pm; Summer in Gossensass
Saturday, February 6; 3pm; What of the Night
Saturday, February 6; 8m; Letters From Cuba
Sunday, February 7; 6pm; Sarita
Week 4
Thursday, February 11; 8pm ; Summer in Gossensass
Friday, February 12; 8:00pm; What of the Night
Saturday, February 13; 3pm; Letters From Cuba
Saturday, February 13; 8pm; Sarita
Sunday, February 14; 6pm; Manual for a Desperate Crossing
Week 5
Thursday, February 18; 8pm; Manual for a Desperate Crossing
Friday, February 19; 8pm; Letters From Cuba
Saturday, February 20; 3pm; Sarita
Saturday, February 20; 8pm; What of the Night
Sunday, February 21; 6pm; Summer in Gossensass
Week 6
Thursday, February 25; 8pm; Sarita
Friday, February 26; 8pm; What of the Night
Saturday, February 27; 3pm; Manual for a Desperate Crossing
Saturday, February 27; 8pm; Letters From Cuba
