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From Ireland to
Texas to New York – TWU Drama takes ‘The Long
March’ to off-Broadway March 31 to April 2
1/26/06
DENTON – A powerful original play about a tribe of social
outcasts searching for a sense of belonging will mark the
off-Broadway debut of Texas Woman’s University’s
Drama Department when “The Long March” is performed
at New York’s Greenwich Street Theater March 31 to April
2, 2006.
Thirty-two TWU
students and five faculty and musicians will travel to New
York City to present the original performance art piece written
by Irish playwright Martin M. Maguire and directed by Patrick
Sutton, artistic director of the Gaiety School of Acting in
Ireland.
“It is very
rare that university drama students have the opportunity to
perform in a production off-Broadway,” said Sharon Benge,
director of TWU’s Drama program. “This experience
will serve as a wonderful showcase for our drama program and
our exceptional student actors and production staff.”
“The Long
March” is the product of an international collaboration
between TWU and the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland.
Sutton served as an artist-in-residence at TWU in October
2004, working with TWU drama students on improvisation and
documenting their work. Sutton then returned to Dublin and
gave the ideas and images to Maguire, who scripted the play
using the students’ work as his inspiration.
TWU undergraduate
and graduate drama students performed “The Long March”
in January 2005 at the SS Michael and John Theatre in Temple
Bar – the avant-garde theater district in Dublin. The
play was hailed as "fresh and energetic" by The
Irish Times, the Irish equivalent of The New York Times. The
play also was performed on TWU’s Denton campus in February
2005.
Maguire and Sutton
will travel to Denton for play rehearsals and then accompany
the TWU cast and crew to New York. The three New York performances
include two evening shows and a Sunday matinee. Ticket prices
will range from $15 to $20.
More information,
including details about media opportunities during Denton
rehearsals in late March, will be released soon.
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Amanda McKeen Simpson
Director of News and Information
Tel: (940) 898-3456
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