Tucson: ETCETERA @ LTW Presents WHITE PEOPLE

 

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ETCETERA, Live Theatre Workshop's Late Night Series, Proudly Presents

 

White People
a play by J.T. Rogers

 

ABOUT THE PLAY:

The country has finally elected a black president yet remains a very long way from resolving its issues about prejudice, as White People, by the playwright J.T. Rogers, demonstrates. The play's three characters, all white, alternate in sharing histories. Alan (Cliff Madison), a Manhattan professor, admires the determination of New York's Dutch colonizers even as he acknowledges their persecution of Jews and Quakers. At the same time, he is exhilarated, almost smitten, by Felicia, a black student. But when he and his pregnant wife are mugged by black teenagers, he confronts his own intolerance. Mara Lynn (Amanda Gremel), a mother in Fayetteville, N.C., wrestles with memories of her cheerleader past; the faded athletic glories of her husband, Earl, now a delivery-truck driver; and the struggles of her young, epileptic son. Frustrated, she vents her wrath on an Indian physician. Martin (Glen Coffman) is a driven St. Louis lawyer who married for his wife's blue-blood genes and bemoans what he sees as the decline of the English language and popular music. His disdain for his black secretary — and black culture in general — is pronounced, and yet he is dumbfounded when his son becomes a violent skinhead.
White People is a profound look at how Americans can unwittingly exhibit intense bigotry even when they sincerely mean well

 

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

J.T. Rogers was selected as one of ten playwrights in the nation to receive a NEA/TCG Theatre Residency for 2004-2005, through which he is currently playwright in residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company. His latest play, Madagascar, received the American Theatre Critics Association's 2004 M. Elizabeth Osborne Award and was a finalist for the ATCA's Steinberg New Play Award. In 2004, Rogers was also awarded a playwrighting fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is the author of White People (L.A. Drama Critics Circle and Barrymore Award nominees for best play of the year), Seeing the Elephant (Kesselring Prize nominee for best new American play), and Murmuring in a Dead Tongue, which was presented in NYC by Epic Rep, where he is company member. Regionally, his works have been seen at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Co., the New Theatre of Miami, New Actors Union Theatre (Moscow), the Road Theatre (L.A.), and many times at the Salt Lake Acting Co. His plays Bob Comes to Life, Above and Beasts, and Frankfurt have been seen in NYC at The Next Stage, where he is a founding member. Rogers has been an artist-in-residence at the Eugene O'Neill Center (Sept. '04), a guest artist at Truman State University (MO), and has lectured at the North Carolina School of the Arts' and University of Utah's schools of drama and at the Claremont-McKenna School of Economics. For three seasons he was on faculty at New York University as part of the Creative Arts Team, where he taught conflict resolution through drama in at-risk junior high schools in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Rogers is a graduate of the professional actor-training program at the North Carolina School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Directed by Toni Press-Coffman

 

Featuring Glen Coffman, Amanda Gremel and Cliff Madison

 

This production contains adult language and content.

 

November 6-21, 2009
Friday and Saturday Nights at 10:30 PM
Admission: $10 at the Box Office

Call 327-4242 for Reservations and Info
LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP
5317 E Speedway Tucson, AZ 85712
www.EtceteraLateNight.com

 

 

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