Go.Go 5
New Work by Jill Blevins, George Brant, Rob Grace and Dave Rabinow
Directed by Alexander Platt
January 27 – February 13, 2011
95 Empire Street, Home of Perishable Theatre, Providence RI
For Go.Go 5, the fifth annual Go.Go Plays, ETC decided to do something different. Rather than commissioning particular playwrights to participate in the event, the company publicized the elements online, and put out a general call for play submissions. Forty-five days later, Elemental had received 31 new plays. Without knowing who had written them, the selection committee set to work, evaluating the pieces based on dramatic structure and conflict, language, character development, and creative use of the required elements. Four plays were finally chosen:
Wake - by Jill Blevins
Long-buried family secrets emerge as a result of a father’s last will and testament.
featuring Kevin Broccoli, Rae Mancini and Erin Olson
The Pickle Shop – by Rob Grace
The free market’s deleterious effects on the soul of a woman and her ailing husband.
featuring Jed Hancock-Brainerd and Casey Seymour-Kim*
Baby Talk – by George Brant
A comedy in which two couples attempt to attain perfection through their children.
featuring D’Arcy Dersham*, Rebecca Noon, Dave Rabinow and Chris Rosenquest
A Brief History of the Earth and Everything In It (As Performed by Ms. LoPiccolo’s Third-Grade Drama Group from the William Jennings Bryan Elementary School in Springfield, Missouri) – by Dave Rabinow
A musical in which a group of 3rd Graders create a school play in an attempt to subvert their school’s Christian fundamentalist culture.
featuring Kevin Broccoli, D’Arcy Dersham*, Jed Hancock-Brainerd, Bryce Johnson, Rae Mancini, Rebecca Noon, Erin Olson, Dave Rabinow, Chris Rosenquest, Amanda Ruggiero, Kelly Seigh and Casey Seymour-Kim*, with John Rogers on keyboard
MEDIA:
Press Releases
Reviews – Providence Monthly (preview, see p. 62), Examiner, Providence Phoenix, Warwick Beacon [text only], Motif Magazine [text only]
*Members, Actors’ Equity Association
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