Theatre, Community, and Collaboration Forum Begins
November 13, 2006

Tacoma, Wash. – A Dangerous Age, the new play by British playwright Godfrey Hamilton (Road Movie, Sleeping with You), will make its U.S. premiere at University of Puget Sound on Friday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Norton Clapp Theatre. Tickets are $5 and are available through the Wheelock Student Center Information Desk.

Age is the latest collaboration of Hamilton and American actor Mark Pinkosh and marks the beginning of the university’s second-annual Theatre, Community, and Collaboration forum. The one-man show ran earlier this year at the Drill Hall Theatre in London to rave reviews.

Pinkosh and Hamilton formed the critically acclaimed Starving Artists Theatre Company in 1983, and together have created 15 plays. Twice a winner of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award (for Road Movie and Viper’s Opium), the company has also enjoyed awards in the United States, including a special commendation from the city of Honolulu for the duo’s work combating racism and homophobia in the state of Hawai’i. The pair performs mainly in Los Angeles and London, and has earned a reputation for bringing gay theater to diverse audiences with wit and compassion. The Starving Artists’ visit to Puget Sound is funded by a grant from the Clapp Endowment.

Saturday, Nov. 11

Hamilton and Pinkosh will join Los Angeles-based playwright Doris Baizley as special guests at a roundtable conversation hosted by students inviting theatermakers and other artists to discuss the question, “Why am I doing this?” The forum will explore artists’ and audience members’ reasons for creating and supporting public performance. Free and open to the public, the conversation will be held Saturday, Nov. 11. from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Norton Clapp Theatre. Saturday’s event kicks off Baizley’s week-long residency on campus. She’ll spend the week working in classes with student playwrights and teams exploring collaborative performance development, thanks to a grant from The Playwright’s Center.

Friday, Nov. 17

The culmination of Baizley’s residency will be a public reading of her play in progress, Peace Crimes: The Minnesota Eight Versus the War, Friday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Norton Clapp Theatre. Following the reading, students, local playwrights, and artists will share their new works.

The Theatre, Community, and Collaboration mini-conference began as a project of the university’s Civic Scholarship Initiative.

For more information, contact Jac Royce in the Department of Theatre Arts at 253.879.3921 or jroyce@ups.edu.

 

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