Under the leadership of guest director Rachel Fachner and Executive Producer Pravin Sathe, SOLID HANG PRESENTS is proud to present Sam Shepard's La Turista. La Turista will run for five performances opening Thursday, November 16th and closing Sunday, November 19th. There will be 7:30pm performances Thursday, Friday and Saturday with 2:30 matinees on Saturday and Sunday. All performances will be held Collective: Unconscious (279 Church St. between White and Franklin). Tickets can be purchased online through Theater Mania (http://theatremania.com) or the box office by calling 631.398.3129 for $15 ($10 for students with valid ID). All tickets bought through the box office must be paid in cash.
La Turista, is at heart, theatre of the absurd. Propelled by two main characters, Salem and Kent whose propensity to escape reality is matched by their willingness to believe the truth of their fantasy world. Set in Mexico and the United States, it is a comedy that contends with issues of cultural identity, globalization, religious tolerance and our perception of all things foreign. La Turista, written and produced in 1966, won the Obie Award for Distinguished Play.
Rachel comes to directing from a multi-disciplinary background and holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. In the past she has directed: Tongues: Sam Shepard, Springtime: Irene Fornes, Pindledeboz: Whitney Pastorek (ass't), and Superman the Musical. Rachel is a founding member of Collective Dance NY and her choreography has been performed at Trisklion Arts, NYU, The Jack Guidone Theater in DC, and at One Arm Red. As a playwright her work has been performed at NYU, and with Breedingground Theatre Company.
Sam Shepard is one of America's most revered and prolific living playwrights. With a career spanning multiple decades, Mr. Shepard has created a body of work that includes turns as a writer, director and actor. He has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Theatre Hall of Fame and received the Gold Medal for Drama, 11 Obie Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize.
SOLID HANG was born out of a need to create a social network of budding artists from various genres. From those beginnings, SOLID HANG has evolved into a company whose purpose it is to create innovative, and thought provoking art primarily through collaboration. These collaborations have resulted in works with Tony Oursler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, websites with Ugly Pictures, Steven Montgomery and Jacqueline Humphries, a three part storytelling series in Manhattan, graphic design work for War Child and last year's revival of Terrance McNally's Bringing It All Back Home which was featured in an article in IndyMedia as well as listed in Time Out New York.
Please contact Pravin Sathe for further information.
T: 631.398.3129
E: pravin@solidhang.com
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