{"id":1112,"date":"2010-07-12T07:11:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T12:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2011-05-21T12:30:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T17:30:51","slug":"fire-new-play-festival-2010-july-17-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"FIRE! NEW PLAY FESTIVAL 2010 (July 17 – 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 17 – 24, 2010:
\nFIRE! NEW PLAY FESTIVAL 2010<\/strong>
\nFour black queer plays offer darkness and hope.<\/em>
\n<\/em>
\nSouth Oxford Space<\/a> (138 South Oxford Street in Ft Greene, Brooklyn)
\nBAAD!<\/a> (841 Barretto St, 2nd FL, in the Bronx)<\/p>\n

$5 – $10: Advance tickets<\/strong> at Brown Paper Tickets<\/a> | Limited door tickets<\/p>\n

Produced by Freedom Train Productions, FIRE! NEW PLAY FESTIVAL 2010 presents staged reading and barebones productions of new black queer plays that offer darkness and danger and, yes, a little artfulness and hope for these bleak post-Bush times.<\/p>\n

As is our custom, these black queer plays are our curated – canaries in the coal mine – offerings to inspire and provoke artists and community into thought and action:<\/p>\n

@ BAAD!, a co-production
\nSAT JULY 17TH, 2010 @ 2:30PM & 7:30PM
\nORIGINS OF US<\/strong> by Jerome A. Parker
\nPromising cosmology graduate student, Adam, rents out his Bronx apartment’s closet to a stranger. ORIGINS is a cautionary journey through the realms of time, space, the body and the mind.<\/em><\/p>\n

@ South Oxford Space:
\nTHURS JULY 22ND, 2010 @ 7:30PM
\nSHE WHO STRUGGLES<\/strong> by LaTonia Phipps
\nA modern day Assata Shakur re-imagined, living in gentrified Harlem and in love with a white woman.<\/em><\/p>\n

@ South Oxford Space:
\nFRI JULY 23RD, 2010 @ 7:30PM
\nMIRRORS<\/strong> by Azure D. Osborne-Lee
\nTwo women mourn the loss of a loved one while sifting through the secrets of their shared past.<\/em><\/p>\n

@ South Oxford Space:
\nSAT JULY 24TH, 2010 @ 2:30PM
\nBLACK\/OUT STORIES<\/strong> by Steve Harper
\nWhen a writer conducts documentary theatre interviews with black LGBT people across the country about their most unusual coming out stories, he revisits his own personal challenges around being out, gay and black in America.<\/em><\/p>\n

\/\/ Freedom Train in TIME OUT NEW YORK<\/a> and NY DAILY NEWS<\/a>.
\n\/\/ Watch<\/a> a mini-documentary on the festival!<\/p>\n

These new plays are written by citizen theatre artists. Since January, the producer artists of Freedom Train have provided safe and encouraging spaces in workshops and actor labs for these artists to create their work and test out their new ideas — independently and with collective purpose.<\/p>\n

Every year our performances are attended by audience community members, like yourself, who care to wrestle with, laugh with, and be inspired by the ideas the playwrights and their creative team explore in the staged readings.<\/p>\n

This year we are thrilled to announce a special barebones co-production of ORIGINS OF US by Jerome A. Parker at BAAD!, the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, to kick off our fourth festival and of course a powerful lineup of new play readings by Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Steve Harper, and LaTonia Phipps, a talented associate artist here at Freedom Train with whom we are thrilled to once again support.<\/p>\n

Offstage Forums 2010<\/a>, critical discussions inspired by their current work in development, precede the festival.<\/p>\n

Major funders include The Union Square Arts Awards, a project of the Tides Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Brooklyn Arts Council, and S\/HEROES FOR THE FUTURE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 17 – 24, 2010: FIRE! NEW PLAY FESTIVAL 2010 Four black queer plays offer darkness and hope. South Oxford Space (138 South Oxford Street in Ft Greene, Brooklyn) BAAD! (841 Barretto St, 2nd FL, in the Bronx) $5 – $10: Advance tickets at Brown Paper Tickets | Limited door tickets Produced by Freedom Train […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMmJz-hW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":617,"url":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=617","url_meta":{"origin":1112,"position":0},"title":"Woman To Woman (Fire! 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