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Release date: Jan. 14, 2003 Theater Emory Presents Brave New Works IIA special installment of Theater Emory's Brave New Works Jan. 27-Feb. 22 marks the inauguration of the theater laboratory in Emory University's new Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, which officially opens Feb. 1. The theater lab will be home to Brave New Works, a biennial marathon of play development workshops that is a project of the Playwriting Center of Theater Emory, where Atlanta audiences have had the opportunity to hear scripts and screenplays in the process of development. Brave New Works II will bring together a national ensemble of actors, directors and playwrights, as well as Emory faculty, alumni and students, to explore and develop new theater work. More than a dozen new, diverse works will be featured during the month-long event, which allows playwrights to hear their works in progress and brainstorm with other writers. More than 75 guest artists are involved in the project, and more than two dozen Emory alumni working professionally in theater will return to Emory to take part in Brave New Works II. Past Brave New Works audiences have had the opportunity to hear, among others, the first draft of the screenplay for "The Quiet American" ( currently in theaters starring Michael Caine), "Handler" (premiered by Actors Express before a run at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and Steve Murray's "Manna" (scheduled for a production at Actors' Express this spring). Playwright Jon Lipsky returns to Emory for a reading of his new work, "Book of Revelations," a series of inter-related short plays that chronicle the shape of a relationship over 50 years. Theater Emory previously produced his plays "Dreaming with an AIDS Patient" and "Call of the Wild," and his script "They All Want to Play Hamlet" was written in collaboration with Theater Emory's Vincent Murphy and Tim McDonough. Award-winning writer Elizabeth Wong will look at relationships also when she directs her full-length monologue "Dating and Mating in Modern Times," a tart and humorous look at modern-day dating rituals. Her play "Kimchee & Chitlins," a satire that premiered at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, was developed in part at Theater Emory. Poet and playwright Henry Israeli will have a staged reading of his new work, "Arrangement for a Glass Guitar," a play set in eastern Europe in 1973. Thomas Bryant will head to 17th-century Rome with a reading of his play "Boca Della Verita" ("The Mouth of Truth"), a dramatic look at the battle for the soul and survival of the Catholic Church during the Inquisition. At stake are the lives of Beatrice Cenci, Caravaggio and Galileo and the pursuit of social justice, art and science. Bryant has written four plays and has worked extensively as a dramaturg and currently is working with Lynn Redgrave on her play "The Mandrake Root" for its upcoming New York production. Janet Kenney's play "The Mark of the Lord," tells the story of a young woman confronted by an unbearable miracle. Jennie Snyder's first full-length play, "Historical Fiction," is the story of mothers and daughters, food and lovers, that explores the trajectory of an anorexic from sainthood to patient-hood. Pamela Turner's "MAJIK!" is a surreal story featuring Rosey, a ballerina living in a 19th-century circus freak show. Emory faculty and students also will offer new works. Vincent Murphy, artistic producing director of Theater Emory and Brave New Works founder, will present "Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow," poetry by Ted Hughes adapted for the stage, which features a single actor accompanied by a musical and video score. Murphy's adaptation was inspired by the papers of the late British poet laureate that are held in Emory's special collections and archives. Award-winning author and Emory English/creative writing professor Joseph Skibell will debut "12,395 Words," a hyper-realistic depiction of an after-dinner evening between friends in Venice, Calif. Students Jon Herzog, Lauren Gunderson, James Navarro and T. Brian Green all offer new works. Gunderson has won awards for her play, "Parts They Call Deep," which was produced in New York in October as part of the Young Playwrights Festival. In addition, Theater Emory has three playwrights-in-residence--all of whom will be in attendance for Brave New Works II--who have been commissioned to produce new plays. The playwrights are Janet Kenney, working on "Globus Hystericus (Or, It's Funny Till Someone Loses an Eye"; Robert O'Hara, working on "Project: Dark Alley"; and longtime Theater Emory playwright-in-residence Steve Murray, working on "Color of Bones." O'Hara is working on several projects for the stage and screen and will have three world premieres, "Bootycandy," "American Ma(u)l" and "Hater High" in the New York 2003 season. Murray's critically-acclaimed plays include "Body Politic," "Lost," "This Passion Thing," "Mileage," "Cupid's Bones," "Rescue & Recovery" and "Manna." Kenney is an award-winning playwright-in-residence at University of Massachusetts. All of the events are free and open to the public in the Schwartz Center Theater Lab, 1700 N. Decatur Rd., Emory, unless otherwise noted. For more information, call 404-727-5050. The full schedule is as follows: Monday, Jan. 27 Friday, Jan. 31 Saturday, Feb. 1 Sunday, Feb. 2 Wednesday, Feb. 5 Friday, Feb. 7 Saturday, Feb. 8 Sunday, Feb. 9 Wednesday, Feb. 12 Saturday, Feb. 15 Sunday, Feb. 16 Friday-Saturday, Feb. 21-22 ###
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