The Girls Next Door
Theater for Community will perform "The Girls Next Door" Thursday, Nov. 6, through Sunday, Nov. 9, at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.
"It's a play that deals with many different types of disabilities and is being directed by guest artist Mary Vreeland, who played Medea in our production of 'Medea' last spring," said Crystal Brian, chair of the department of visual and performing arts. "Mary will be forging links with various advocacy groups for the disabled in the New Haven/Hamden area."
Performances are at 8:00 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday.
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Whitewashed: The Rough Draft
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Theater for Community presented the original play "Whitewashed: The Rough Draft" April 17 to 20 at the Long Wharf Theatre, Stage II, in New Haven.
"Whitewashed" is a multimedia production with documentary videos, images, theatrical scenes and monologues. "We'll explore why, as human beings, we seem hardwired to focus on our differences rather than our commonalities," said Crystal Brian, chair of the visual and performing arts department and director of the play.
"We'll examine prejudice, privilege, community and diversity from different perspectives by conducting interviews with people in the Quinnipiac and New Haven communities and examining our own experiences, ideas and feelings," Brian said.
Students from the department of theater and the School of Communications, along with communications professor Rebecca Abbott, created the multimedia play with help from West Haven Veterans Affairs, the New Haven police department, the New Haven homeless shelter Columbus House and other groups in New Haven.
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Written by Euripides, "Medea" is an ancient Greek tragedy of jealousy and revenge by a woman, Medea, betrayed by her husband after he abandons her to marry the beautiful young daughter of Creon, King of Corinth.
Mary Vreeland starred in the title role with acting professionals James Murphy and PeggyRae Johnson and Quinnipiac students. Vreeland, who is deaf, incorporated sign language into the play as an aspect of the cultural clashes between deaf and hearing cultures.
Vreeland performed in "Children of Lesser God" on Broadway and on a national tour. She also appeared in the CBS television movie "Have You Tried Talking to Patty?" She has a master of fine arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Kelly Morgan, professor of theater at Quinnipiac, directed. Morgan founded the Mint Theater and associate directed the Riverside Shakespeare Company in New York City. He has directed at Steppenwolf Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Lost Tribe Theater Company and served as master teacher of acting at the State University of New York in Fredonia, chair of theater at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, chair of theater at Case Western Reserve University and on faculty of Princeton University and Fitchburg State College.