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NOplays FIRST PRODUCTION

NOplays is pleased to announce that we will be organizing our first production in collaboration with 365 Women a Year!

The event will take place on March 27th at 7:40pm in the Bennington College Student Center. The evening will feature staged-readings of five original one acts written by Bennington College students and alumni. The evening will also be live-streamed on HowlRound and Nitenews, as part of the 365 Women a Year 24 Hour Broadcast.

We are very pleased to announce the plays that have been selected for the event.

MAKING FRANKENSTEIN by Natalie Osborne

EN EL MEDIO by Maia Villa

FEELIN’ LONELY by Catherine Weingarten

AFTER THE THIN MAN by Shellen Lubin

WHITE COTTON by Shellen Lubin

For more information on the readings, please email natalie.noplays@gmail.com. For more information about 365 Women a Year, please visit the website.

Stay tuned for more information on the playwrights and the historical women featured in their plays, and for the link to the live-stream.

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(UN) Governed Spaces

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(UN) Governed Spaces in a new exhibit at Usdan Gallery that combines art and anthropology to examine the Bagram Military Airbase in Afghanistan. It explores the conflicting narratives surrounding the base while asking viewers to question their pre-conceived ideas of the country. It invites the viewer to attempt to discover the “truth” for themselves, if such a “truth” even exists. Check out the online version of the exhibit to see the art, including some original work by Brianna Morel and your’s truly!

http://www.ungovernedspaces.com/

The Gallery is open every weekday from 2-5

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Seven Ravens Pics!

Better late then never! Here are the pictures from the latest reading of the Seven Ravens at Bennington College!

Thank you to my wonderful cast! Hannah Rose, Marshall McGraw, Lecil James, Georgianna Richer, Emma Welch, Maia Villa, Tori Nation, Molly Forgaard, Jessie Berliner, Emma Plotkin, and Belle Clendenen

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The End of the Dream Team

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As the term winds down, our Belarusian Dream Team is entering it’s final week. Come see our last performance this Sunday, May 18th, at 7:30pm in Margot Tenney Theatre, Bennington College. We have staged-readings of three new plays (one directed by yours truly!) and musical performances by the insanely talented Alex Diaz. Plus food!

Also, tomorrow night at 7pm in Tishman, come see a screening of Europe’s Last Dictatorship, an award-winning documentary on Belarus!

Please come out and support our last performance!

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Belarusian Dream TOMORROW NIGHT!

Only one more night until The Bennington Belarusian Dream Theatre’s second performance at Bennington College. Come see these amazing new plays! One night only! The performance starts in Margot Tenney at 8:30, and the audience moves. Talk back with the playwrights after the performance. It’s going to be a great night!

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Happy Belarusian Freedom Day!!!

Today, all over the world, Belarusian Dream Theaters are performing original works on Belarus, “Europe’s Last Dictatorship.” Tonight at 10pm, starting in D207, The Bennington College group will be performing four of these plays. Come see Oz Revisited, The Milk is Spoiled, Under Protest, and Variations on the Polis! Can’t get to Bennington, Vermont? Look at all of the other work happening around the globe! Find a Belarusian Dream group closest to your location. If you can’t make it to the shows tonight, try lighting a candle or reading up on Belarus. Do something to show your solidarity for Belarusian Freedom Fighters, and for oppressed people everywhere!

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Belarusian Free Theatre

This is a great article on the Belarusian Free Theatre!

http://blogs.blouinnews.com/blouinbeatworld/2014/02/28/we-dont-belong-to-ourselves-the-high-stakes-politics-of-art-in-belarus/

Belarus is described by many activists as “The last dictatorship in Europe”

Inspired by the Belarusian Free Theatre, several theatre organizations have band together and organized an international theatre festival called Belarusian Dream. Several plays about Belarus written by playwrights from around the world will be performed on March 25th, the “unofficial” holiday know as Belarusian Freedom Day. The theatre organizations putting up the plays range from professional to college, and can be found across the globe. Bennington College will be putting up four of these plays on March 25th, as well as other performances throughout the term. Stay tuned for more on Belarusian Dream, The Belarusian Free Theatre, and Bennington College’s productions of the plays.