Breaking Ground

2009 Festival Schedule & Play Descriptions

Friday, July 24 at 4pm

Long Season
Book and Lyrics by Chay Yew
Music by Fabian Obispo
Directed by Peter DuBois
Roberts Studio Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

A new musical that chronicles Filipino immigration to the United States in the 1920s and the unionization of a cannery in Alaska.

Monday, August 3 at 7pm

Deported / a dream play
By Joyce Van Dyke
Directed by Judy Braha
Carol Deane Rehearsal Hall, Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

Elmas and Varter save each other's lives during the Armenian genocide. After they come to America, their story leaps across time and space, ending in a dream world of the future where Armenians, Turks, the living, and the dead commingle.

Featuring: June Baboian, Ken Baltin, Mark Cohen, Paula Langton, Marya Lowry, Doug Lockwood, Elise Manning, Bobbie Steinbach and Scott Sweatt.

Tuesday, August 4 at 7pm

Lizzie Stranton
By Lydia R. Diamond
Directed by Summer L. Williams
Carol Deane Rehearsal Hall, Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

In Lydia R. Diamond's bawdy reimagining of Aristophanes' even bawdier Lysistrata, a fictional first lady convenes a meeting in 2016 of the most prominent women in the world with a radical scheme to end war.

Wednesday, August 5 at 7pm

Jeanie Don't Sing No Mo'
By Jacqui Parker
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Carol Deane Rehearsal Hall, Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

Jeanie, a once-famous blues singer, stopped speaking the day her father died, and she and her Southern family carry the burden of secrets long concealed.

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