Steinese TakeOut at The Red Room

Drew Pisarra presents Steinese TakeOut, six short plays by Gertrude Stein, at The Red Room from 14 - 23 Jun 2007.

Steinese TakeOut: A half-dozen intrepid directors have signed on to bring an equal number of Gertrude Stein's most radical one-acts to life. How radical? How about no plot, no setting, and no pre-defined characters. Cryptic? Definitely. Absurd? Perhaps. Nonsensical? Not at all.

The six plays and their directors are:

• Bonne Annee, directed by Ryan Bronz
  
• Play I[-III], directed by Peter Campbell
  
• Parlor, directed by Deanna Fleysher
  
• Captain Walter Arnold, directed by Andrew Frank
  
• I Like It to Be a Play, directed by Eve Hartmann
  
• Curtain Raiser, directed by Drew Pisarra

Gertrude Stein, a pioneer of American avant garde letters, was a bestselling memoirist (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas), a memorable epigramist (�Rose is a rose is a rose�) and a groundbreaking librettist who saw her first opera with composer Virgil Thomson become the sensation of Broadway (Four Saints in Three Acts). Yet despite her multiple successes, aside from the Wooster Group�s House/Lights, a radical reworking of her Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, her works for the stage have been largely ignored even during her lifetime.

Steinese TakeOut features Shawn Amaro, Mikki Baloy, Chanelle Benz, Amanda Boekelheide, Morganne Davies, Sofie Dubrawsky, Tom DiMenna, Martha Elliot, Genevieve de Gaillande, David Gordon, Richard Harrington, Fiona Jones, Gavin Starr Kendall, May Lane, Duncun Murdoch, Ridley Parson, Jennifer Gordon Thomas and Alice R.