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Watson Arts is a resident company of La MaMa E.T.C. that develops and presents original, innovative theater with a particular emphasis on women. This season, Watson Arts launches its playwright series, The Write Women Project, devoted to new plays by women. Our 2010 production is Dog and Wolf by noted playwright, Catherine Filloux, and directed by Jean Randich at 59E59 Theaters in February 2010. Watson Arts also develops and produces works of original text, dance, and performance, as well as musical adaptations of literary work. Many of our theatrical presentations are close collaborations between the core company of writer and director, Mary Fulham, songwriter, Paul Foglino, choreographer, Heidi Latsky, designers, Ramona Ponce, Jim Boutin, Spica Wobbe, and Tim Schellenbaum.
Schedule of Upcoming Productions
Production History
Brazil Nuts
| Open: 05/07/10 Close: 05/23/10
In BRAZIL NUTS, two lesbians walk into a bar. One of them marries a go-go boy. All three get drop-kicked into the Bermuda triangle of U.S. Immigration. This new comedy details the experiences of Fabiana, a Brazilian and die-hard soccer fan who has over-stayed her student visa; Jackie, her girlfriend who works as a dog-walker, office temp, and cater-waiter when she’s not writing her thesis on Third World Atrocities Today (T.W.A.T.); and Ron, Fabiana’s well-endowed go-go boy husband — a decent guy for a complete narcissist.
written by Susan Jeremy and Mary Fulham set by Gian Marco Lo Forte costumes by Ramona Ponce sound by Tim Schellenbaum directed by Mary Fulham
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Luz
| Open: 09/28/12 Close: 10/14/12
LUZ is a large-scale work, panoramic in its view as the play exposes the global scale of gender-based violence and the collusion between human rights and corporate law practices. From the garbage dump in Guatemala City to tent cities in Haiti and the toxic oil ponds where birds expire, Luz, Helene and Zia -- survivors of targeted violence -- with the help of human rights lawyer Alexandra search for hope in the unlikeliest in-between places. A play that is at once volatile and tender, entertaining and surreal. According to author and NYU Gallatin professor Sharon Friedman, "Over the past two decades, playwright Catherine Filloux has been a leading voice in theatre for social change, dramatizing human rights abuses and crimes against humanity. She has given us nuanced portraits of psychic trauma in the aftermath of genocide in Europe of the Second World War, Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia. In her most recent play LUZ, she asks audiences to bear witness to a judicial system that is often indifferent to gender-based violence against women." About the Company: Watson Arts Watson Arts is a resident company of La MaMa E.T.C. that develops and presents original, innovative theater with a particular emphasis on women. This season, Watson Arts launches its playwright series, The Write Women Project, devoted to new plays by women. Our 2010 production is Dog and Wolf by noted playwright, Catherine Filloux, and directed by Jean Randich at 59E59 Theaters in February 2010. Watson Arts also develops and produces works of original text, dance, and performance, as well as musical adaptations of literary work. Many of our theatrical presentations are close collaborations between the core company of writer and director, Mary Fulham, songwriter, Paul Foglino, choreographer, Heidi Latsky, designers, Ramona Ponce, Jim Boutin, Spica Wobbe, and Tim Schellenbaum. | |
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