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Smart People
by Lydia R. Diamond
Directed by Judith Moreland
Virtual Performances
Available On Demand April 20-25, 2021
TICKETS: FREE (Registration Required)
It is the eve of Obama’s first election. Four of Harvard University’s brightest; a surgeon, an actress, a psychologist, and a neuro-psychiatrist, are all interested in different aspects of the brain, particularly how it responds to race. But like all smart people, they are also searching for love, success, and identity in their own lives. Lydia R. Diamond brings these characters together in this sharp, witty play about social and sexual politics.
“…a sexy, serious, and very, very funny modern-day comedy of manners.” VARIETY, Read More
“…crisp and clever dialogue…Smart People is very funny because it reflects a very sympathetic human foible; the desire to resolve our racial conflicts without messing things up every time we open our mouths.” BROADWAYWORLD.COM, Read More
“Splendid! Diamond…draw[s] laughs even as she firmly pushes back against the notion that we’re living in a ‘post-racial society.’” BOSTON GLOBE, Read More
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SMART PEOPLE by Lydia R. Diamond
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RIPE FRENZY by Jennifer Barclay
Virtual Performances Production
Directed by Michael Stevenson
Available On Demand August 3-8
TICKETS: FREE (Registration Required)
In an upstate New York small town it is opening night of the local high school’s 40th production of OUR TOWN. As if playing the role of the Stage Manager, one Mom sets the scene for the audience and walks us through the evening’s events. Time and memory grow slippery as her story submerges us in the before, during and after of an active shooter event. Set against the bucolic simplicity of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize Winning play OUR TOWN, RIPE FRENZY examines what has become a tragic American norm and questions our own culpability in the perpetuation of mass shootings in our country. ADVISORY: Disturbing content and imagery used in the production.
RIPE FRENZY was the winner of the 2016-17 NNPN Smith Prize for Political Theatre, and a 2018 National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at New Rep in Boston, Synchronicity Theatre in Atlanta and Greenway Court in LA.
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