Flying Fig Theater's
2003 Season
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Shirtwaist by Ellen K. Anderson
World Premiere Directed by Heather Ondersma New York International Fringe Festival Teatro La Tea in the Clemente Soto Velez Center 107 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10002 Friday, August 8 (3:00 pm); Sunday, August 10 (5:45 pm); Monday, August 11 (7:30 pm); Sunday, August 17 (7:45 pm); Wednesday, August 20 (5:15 pm); and Friday, August 22 (10:00 pm). 
"90 minutes of engaging and provocative theatre that reminds us of our too-easily-forgotten responsibilities as human beings sharing this planet.
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Martin Denton, NYTheater.Com Flying Fig Theater will present our second commissioned work by Ellen K. Anderson (author of Flying Fig's first production, Liz Estrada, based on Aristophanes' Lysistrata, which premiered at the New York City International Fringe Festival in August 2002): a play with music based on the events of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory tragedy and the lives of the women who worked there. This historic fire fueled massive mourning in New York City. Our production, however, will celebrate the lives of the 146 laborers lost, invoking their vibrant youth and ethnicity through song and dance. Their lives were strenuous, but not without joy. They were women with dreams, working for a better life. They could not save themselves from this horrendous fire, however, so we will remember them, while observing that in 2003 there are women working in equally hazardous conditions in Mexico City, Shanghai, and even in New York City. Directions Legacies of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret by Susanna Centlivre
Directed by Michaela Goldhaber A.R.T./New York South Oxford Space 138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 June 13-30, 2003 
"Go see it - and take your daughters."
GO Brooklyn The Wonder is a laugh-out-loud-funny intrigue comedy with serious undertones. It was one of the most popular plays of the 18th and 19th centuries, both in England and in the early American theater. Susanna Centlivre was a critically and financially successful playwright, loved by actors and audience alike. Despite the play's fame, it essentially disappeared in the middle of the 19th century, along with all the plays of Susanna Centlivre and the work of her many compatriot women playwrights. This production will join the burgeoning movement by contemporary theater artists to bring the best plays by classical women writers into our consciousness, back into Western theater history, and, most important, back to the stage where they belong. Order Tickets for The Wonder! Directions |