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Prayer by Jonathan Kravetz
Runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays w/ 2 Sundays and 1 Monday Special
Mar. 8th-11th, Mar. 15th-19th, and Mar. 22nd-24th
* March 19th performance will be pay-what-you-can
Directed by Diana Gonzalez
100 years hence in a fundamentalist society, Jacob Bergson is thrown into a musty prison, accused of writing The Believer’s Diary—a book that is sparking a revolution. He maintains his innocence, as his cellmate provokes him, the powers that be threaten, and a young, sad guard tries to figure him out. Prayer will challenge your ideas about the nature of morality through one man’s search for justice and redemption. Prayer played to sold-out houses at the 2008 New York City Fringe festival. This will be its first full scale production.
*Jonathan’s play, The Beast in My Pants, was featured as a part of Nouveau 47’s inaugural New Works/New Voices Festival,
EDU 2020
Runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays w/ 2 Sundays and 1 Monday
May 31st-June 3rd, June 7th-11th, and June 14th-16th
Directed by Tom Parr IV
Using the joint stock process, Nouveau 47 will be embarking on a journey talking to teachers, parents, students and politicians as we dive into a socially conscious experiment in collective creation. Part Greek tragedy, part documentary style reenactment, Education:20/20 is digging into the state of education.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells
The important thing is not to stop questioning. – Albert Einstein
Coyote by Kevin Kautzman
Runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays w/ 2 Sundays and 1 Monday Special
Jan. 26th-29th, Feb. 2nd-6th, and Feb. 9th-11th
Directed by Donny Covington
Night. Arizona, on the border between Mexico and the United States of America. When a young man joins a lone minuteman on weekly patrol, words fly and a game of questions begins over who represents the “real America”and who decides where the line in the sand is drawn. COYOTE is an award-winning play by Kevin Kautzman that casts light on one of the darkest corners of recent history: the uncertain line between the United States and its neighbor to the south.
Coyote was written with the support of a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. A group of selectors and the finalist judge, John Godber, awarded Coyote this year’s International Student Playscript Competition prize. In April, Coyote received a reading at the National Student Drama Festival in Scarborough, UK, directed by Phil Mann. Coyote was featured at Nouveau 47’s inaugural New Works/New Voices Festival. This will be its first full scale production.