One Thousand Doorways

Journey Among the Kurds of Turkey
Written and Performed by Diane Edgecomb
March 14, 2016, 8PM

An unexpected encounter with a young Kurdish refugee sets an American storyteller on a quest of danger and discovery to bring to the world the ancient legends of this oppressed people. This is the deeply moving, richly humorous true account of one woman’s journey through the remote mountains of Turkish-Kurdistan in search of the last Kurdish storytellers and of the extraordinary people who shared their lives and their stories with her.

“There’s one world, but one thousand doorways.”
-Kurdish saying

For more information on One Thousand Doorways, check out this video and website link:
https://vimeo.com/108082071

http://livingmyth.com/doorways/

Still Life

(A Staged Reading)
by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich
directed by Christopher James Webb
featuring: Lee Mikeska Gardner, Greg Maraio, and Samantha Richert

Lydia’s daughter hasn’t returned home since a series of subway bombings in her unnamed city. Now she’s joined at the hip with her annoying son-in-law, Donald, as they wait for news. To make matters worse, a mysterious millennial photographer won’t stop following her. When photographs of Lydia become part of a groundbreaking exhibit on what society has lost to terrorism, all Lydia can think about is the punishing anticipation of the ringing phone.

Plays  by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich include Romeo Chang, The Next Big Thing, Sister Sister, The Woman With Orange Hands, The Body Clean, Still Life, Boy Girl Boy Girl, Double Vision, Absolute Flight: A Reality Show With Wings, Big City, Hitting the Wall, Three a.m., Rox-N Miss Thang, June In White, Cleavage, and 4EVER. Her work has been produced or developed in New York at Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Rattlestick, Roundabout, Women’s Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, Six Figures, AracaWorks, The New York International Fringe Festival (extended off-Broadway in the Fringe NYC Encore Series), and The Sumer Play Festival; Regionally, at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Trinity Rep, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangar Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, LA’s Elephant Theatre, Long Beach Playhouse, and Chicago’s Collaboraction Theatre. Published by Smith and Kraus, she won a Hangar Theatre Playwriting Residence, Capital Stage’s Playwrights Revolution, Bloomington Playwrights Project, the University of Cincinnati’s Festival of New Works. Additionally, she was a finalist or semi-finalist for the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, a Heideman Award, Princess Grace Fellowship, the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Julie Harris Playwright Award, Phoenix Theatre’s New Play Festival, Reverie Productions’ Next Generation Playwriting Award, EST’s Marathon, and at the O’Neill, Sundance, Labyrinth Theatre Summer Intensive, HotCity, and Bay-Area Playwrights Festival.  She taught playwriting at Miami of Ohio, University of Massachusetts, and Brandeis University, where she was artist-in-residence. She is an affiliated artist at New Georges, an Associate Playwright at Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and a member of Athena Theatre Company’s Playwrights’ group.. 

Titanic Theatre Company Presents Polish Joke in the CST Studio!

David Ives’ “Polish Joke” is a comic and poignant send-up of identity, ethnic stereotypes, and the eternal American search for “roots.” Described by Ives as his most shamelessly autobiographical work, “Polish Joke” follows Jasiu, a Polish-American, as he struggles to rise above the perceived limitations of his ancestry by reinventing himself, trying on different names and national origins in a series of hilarious, sometimes surreal encounters.

THE CAST:
Will Bowry
Becca Lewis
Janelle Mills
Dan Prior
Matthew Zahnzinger

From Tempest Productions and Deborah Lake Fortson—
living stories— the Sex Trafficking of American youth.

Every girl and boy dreams sometimes of running away from home. But stalking these runaways are pimps looking for young bodies to sell. In the documentary play, BODY & SOLD, winner of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award, we hear the stories of eight teen survivors and the stark realities in five US cities—

—Sexual violence—Life on the street —Amazing escapes—

BODY & SOLD

Learn about an American epidemic — And what you can do to stop the abuse and exploitation of our young people.

Directed by Naomi Ibasitas

Discussion moderated by Audrey Morrissey, Associate Director of My Life My Choice, a nationally recognized survivor-led organization working to stem the tide of commercial sexual exploitation of children.

Reservations are encouraged but not required.

Save the Date!

Please join us for Shelter from the Storm by Girl Talk Theatre on Monday, June 8th at 7:00PM on CST’s Mainstage.

Girl Talk Theatre’s Mission is to empower homeless and marginalized women through the art of theatre. 

Tickets are free, but reservations strongly recommended e-mail reservations@girltalktheatre.org or call: 857.294.9750
Girl Talk Theatre’s mission is to empower homeless,
poor and marginalized women through the art of theatre.
GirlTalkTheatre.org.