Doorway Arts Ensemble and Arts Alive Theatre present: “Tether”Posted in Articles, Arts, Live Events, Media Archive, United States on 2011-03-03 04:29Z by Steven |
Doorway Arts Ensemble and Arts Alive Theatre present: “Tether”
Doorway Arts Ensemble
February 2011
Emily Morrison, Publicist
Office: 703-892-0801
sex, race, religion, tether ball… twin sisters are coming of age [2011-02-18 through 2011-03-13]
Bethesda, Maryland Doorway Arts Ensemble presents Tether, a World Premier play by Julie Taiwo Oni, co-produced with Arts Alive Theatre Artistic Director, Perry Schwartz as part of Montgomery College Silver Spring Arts Alive Theatre Series. This production marks the first presentation by a professional theater organization of a script that received development and a stage reading as part of the 2009 Inkwell’s Inkubator Festival in Washington, DC.
In Tether, Lach and Lam are 15 year old mixed race twins. Lach is white, Lam is black and both are obsessed with tether-ball. In this rhythmic drama, life is a back-and-forth game of rules and regulations, kissing boys, movie-talk and the roots of their religious upbringing. As the sisters come into their maturity and men enter the game, they must learn to tether without their counterpart. When an obstacle swings between them, they must begin to face and embrace the differences between each other in order to be true to themselves
The odds against of a couple having twins of dramatically different color are a million to one, each twin fertilized by different sperm with different genetic input from their parents. The phenomenon is extremely rare… there are only about 5 sets of mixed race twins living in the world today.
Runs February 18 through March 13, 2011.
Performances: Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday Matinee at 2pm
Monday, March 7 at 8 PM – Special Performance
Friday Feb 18 – Press Night – followed by reception (press are welcome to all performances)
Saturday Feb 19 – Q&A follows performance featuring the dramaturg, director, playwright and actors
TICKETS: $10 for general admission/$7 for students and seniors/$5 for MC Students, Faculty and Staff. Call 240-567-5775 or order online at www.tickets.com. All performances opening weekend are Pay What You Can.
LOCATION: The Studio Theater in the Cultural Art Center at Montgomery College Silver Spring 7995 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20910 [map & directions]…
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