Susannah Mars talks with Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz. Her play Berlin Diary produced by Hand2Mouth Theatre just opened at Coho Theatre. She's also just been selected as the Lacroute Playwright-in-Residence at Artists Repertory Theatre for the next five years.
More about Andrea Stolowitz: Her plays have been developed and presented nationally and internationally at theatres such as The Long Wharf, The Old Globe, The Cherry Lane and New York Stage and Film. The LA Times calls her work “heartbreaking” and the Orange County Register characterizes her approach as a “brave refusal to sugarcoat issues and tough decisions.” A recipient of Artists Repertory Theater’s $25,000 Fowler/Levin New Play Prize, Andrea premiered her play Ithaka at the theatre in 2013. The play had its mid-west premiere in Chicago in 2014 at InFusion Theater and its Canada premiere in May 2016. The play won the 2015 Oregon Book Award in Drama judged by Naomi Iizuka. Andrea’s play Antarktikos also won the Oregon Book Award for Drama (2013) and was published in July 2013 in TheatreForum magazine. The play world-premiered at The Pittsburgh Playhouse in March 2013 and was workshopped at The New Harmony Project (IN), Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, and Seattle Repertory Theater. It was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and received a 2015 Kilroy’s List Honorable Mention.
Berlin Diary Andrea Stolowitz
Directed by Jonathan Walters*
Performed by Erin Leddy* & Damon Kupper
More about Berlin Diary: The great-grandfather of Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a German Jew. Following the complicated lure of genealogy, Stolowitz goes back to Berlin to bring the story of her unknown ancestors out of the archives into the light. The record keeps as many secrets as it shares; how do people become verschollen, lost, like library books?
In this complex, contemporary drama about the search for home, fragmented heritage and Jewish diaspora, two performers scintillate between characters and locations at the border of reality and memory and the intersection of national history and private lives. Read Jewish Life Magazine of Berlin Diary here
Show runs through Aprill 30th 2017
Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 3 pm
All show sare at Coho Theatre,
2257 NW Raleigh St, Portland, OR 97210
Tickets & Info: www.hand2mouththeatre.org
CoHo's Box Office (503)-220-2646
General admission: $30 Discounted admission for under age 30 or over 65: $20
Groups of 8 or more $15 each
**All Thursday night & preview performances tickets $15**
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