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CLOSED NOVEMBER 22, 2008:

VOYEURS DE VENUS

Written by Lydia R. Diamond
Directed by Summer L. Williams

OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 22, 2008
Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theatre

"[Lydia R. Diamond] has a distinctively urbane and polished voice, and a sharp way of blending humor and high-mindedness."
— Chicago Tribune

"This play deserves to be widely seen, and is sure to trigger lots of talk. How could it be otherwise, given that it deals with issues of race, sex, science, art, history, body image, celebrity, marriage and adultery, careerism and altruism."
— Chicago Sun Times

Company One is proud to present the Boston premiere of Lydia Diamond’s dazzling new play, VOYEURS DE VENUS. Sara is an African-American scholar of pop-culture trying to write a book about Saartjie Baartman, better known disparagingly as the Hottentot Venus. Struggling with the expectations of her book deal, she discovers that the past is not so far behind as her life collides with that of her subject. Navigating a minefield of personal intimacies with her white husband, and black lover who is also her publisher, Sara finds herself challenged with her own issues of racial identity. Sexy, bold and dangerous, VOYEURS DE VENUS is sure to be one of the season’s most piercing dramas.

Lydia Diamond is a Huntington Theatre playwriting fellow, and the adaptor of last season’s THE BLUEST EYE

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CLOSED JANUARY 24, 2009:

ARTiculation

Conceived by Tory Bullock
Directed by Lois Roach

JANUARY 9 – 24, 2009

Boston Playwrights Theatre

"...will renew your faith in the art of the spoken word, and in the youth of America. Catch their excitement: you’ll be glad you did."
— Theatre Mirror

While the country is ushering in change with the election of a new president, Company One is doing the same with a new kind of theatre.  Set in the not-so-distant-future, ARTiculation follows the journey of six Boston poets as they weave their way through the vast jungles of their own imaginations. Armed with only words, this young diverse ensemble provides a mosaic of life, love, youth, religion and art set to a thundering mix of urban poetics and dynamic live theatre. Written by the performers themselves, Company One is proud to present the artistic revolution that is ARTiculation.

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CLOSED APRIL 4, 2009:

THE PAIN & THE ITCH

Written by Bruce Norris
Directed by Bevin O’Gara
Featuring Nancy E. Carroll

MARCH 13 - APRIL 4, 2009

Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theatre

"Mr. Norris.writes tangy, literate dialogue that gives his actors ample scope to shine."
"A savage comic flair"
— New York Times

"Captivates an audience from start to finish.”
— Chicago Free Press

Company One is proud to present the Boston premiere of Bruce Norris's controversial play THE PAIN AND THE ITCH, featuring Nancy E. Carroll. With a young daughter in serious need of attention and a ravenous creature possibly prowling the upstairs bedrooms, what begins as an average Thanksgiving for one privileged family unravels into an exposé of disastrous choices and less-than-altruistic motives. THE PAIN AND THE ITCH is a scathing satire of the politics of class and race, a compelling, painfully human examination of denial and its consequences. Following sold out runs at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre and New York’s Playwright’s Horizons, Company One is proud to stage this highly anticipated Boston premiere.

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AFTER THE QUAKE

Written by Haruki Murakami
Adapted by Tony award-winner Frank Galati
Directed by Shawn LaCount

JULY 17 - AUGUST 15, 2009

Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theatre

".It is an elegant, economic, gently hypnotic piece of theater"
— New York Times

"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! A mesmerizing 100-minute theater piece...filled with plenty of humor and whimsy”
— Chicago Sun-Times

Writer Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore, is one of the most acclaimed writers of our time, winning a Yomiuri Award, Japan’s equivalent of the Pulitzer. Frank Galati, Tony Award–winning director and adaptor has fashioned an enchanting and deeply moving play out of two of Murakami’s short stories. AFTER THE QUAKE is a gentle tale of life in the wake of earth-shaking disaster. A timid man woos an old flame, enchanting her anxious daughter with whimsical bedtime stories of a six foot frog’s fight to save Tokyo. Company One invites you to experience a testament to healing and hope in an increasingly vulnerable world with what promises to be a beautiful and mesmerizing evening of theatre.