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HOOKMAN

Part of the XX PlayLab

First public read:
Sunday, October 30 - 7pm
Second public read:
Thursday, January 5 - 7:30pm
Show runs: Mar. 23 - Apr.14, 2012
Hall A Calderwood Pavilion

Being a freshman in college is hard when your roommate is weird, home is far away, and Hookman is everywhere! What's Lexi to do when her old high school friend, Jess, gets killed...I mean - has an accident, a car accident, I think? Not even Facebook stalking the dead can calm the creepy feelings spilling out of the shadows in this existential comic horror slasher - a new play by Lauren Yee.

“ Yee is a talented young writer [whose] voice is absolutely worth a listen!”
– nytheatre.com

OUT OF THE BOX

Nov 28, June 12, Aug 14
BCA Plaza

A competitive multimedia event of extravagant, show stopping brilliance spanning over three nights, Out-of-the-Box brings performance to the next level. Using a theme for each evening, local performers from all backgrounds — actors, musicians, dancers, poets, puppeteers and everything in between — will converge in a multimedia cabaret, the likes of which the Boston theatre scene has never seen. A winner will arise from the dust, judged completely by you, the audience.

“SHARP, SMART, FUNNY AND FEARLESS!”

- The Boston Globe

OUT OF THE BOX

Nov 28, June 12, Aug 14
BCA Plaza

A competitive multimedia event of extravagant, show stopping brilliance spanning over three nights, Out-of-the-Box brings performance to the next level. Using a theme for each evening, local performers from all backgrounds — actors, musicians, dancers, poets, puppeteers and everything in between — will converge in a multimedia cabaret, the likes of which the Boston theatre scene has never seen. A winner will arise from the dust, judged completely by you, the audience.

“SHARP, SMART, FUNNY AND FEARLESS!”

- The Boston Globe

IN OUR NAME: A Play of the Torture Years

by Michael Meltsner

March 27, 7:30pm
Location: Boston Playwright's Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave, Boston
Free and open to the public but seating is limited. To reserve space indicate name and number at meltsnerm@gmail.com

The first dramatic reading of civil rights lawyer Michael MeltsnerŐs searing depiction of how and why the nation found itself brutally treating the men it detained-- some with good reason, some with stunning caprice-- after 9/11; the rationalizations offered by officialdom; the bizarre military hearings and the willful blindness of the public to what was happening behind barbed wire. Brendan Shea of the American Repertory Theatre called IN OUR NAME a Ňliving essayÓ in which the United States actions at Guantanamo are put on trial. ŇThe playŐs vibrant and visceral language is a great vehicle Éto communicate the complex issuesÓ Followed by a discussion with the audience and a distinguished panel of experts. The author is well known in the legal world for his representation of hundreds of death row inmates and for the case that restored Mohammad AliŐs right to box. Directed by Victoria Marsh.