Sunday, April 23, 2017

bareNaked Reading Series CONTINUES... (4.24.17)


 We're thrilled to bring you a bareNaked Reading Series SPECIAL EDITION presented by Hi-ARTS (formally Hip-Hop Theater Festival) featuring VALIANT adapted by ensemble member, Lanna Joffrey; directed by Alexandra Renzetti with Lanna Joffrey, Sharahn LaRue, Charlotte Pines, Therese Plaehn, & Shira-Lee Shalit.

Featuring LIVE MUSIC performed by Taylor Plas.

2017 bareNaked Reading Series sponsored by ZYR Vodka.
 
WHEN: Monday, April 24th, 2017
(Doors Open @ 6:30pm; Curtain @ 7:00pm)

WHERE: El Barrio's Artspace PS 109
(215 E 99th St, New York, NY 10029, bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave.)

RESERVATION: email barefootrsvp@aol.com with Name and amount of tixs. Limited Seating. Reservation confirmed UNLESS you hear back from us.

ADMISSION:
$5 Suggested Donation; Cash Only at the Box Office
*all donations support the general operating costs of Barefoot Theatre Company.

Hi-ARTS is a leading institution within the urban arts movement — developing and producing new works of performance and visual art, providing a platform for artists, and creating educational and community programs that connect and expand the audiences for urban arts.


VALIANT chronicles a century of war as seen through the eyes of women from across the globe. Adapted for the stage by Lanna Joffrey from Sally Hayton-Keeva’s book of verbatim interviews Valiant Women in War and Exile, meet thirteen women who have fought in, struggled through, and survived conflict. From victim to perpetrator to peacemaker, this critically acclaimed play takes verbatim interviews to create a compelling portrait of what women do in a time of war, and explores how it has shaped their lives and subsequently our own.

"…war is not a foreign, distant event, neatly packaged by beginnings and endings, pertaining to one point in time. It is far too convenient to bracket wars in dates. Peace treaties may record the end of a war and attempt to guarantee war will not happen again, but they’re only meaningless pieces of paper. For, in fact we live in a world of continual war: 300 of them, at least, since the end of World War II…We are just beginning to find out what women have done, what women are capable of being and doing and thinking, and without that knowledge we are missing a crucial link in understanding not only the process of warfare but the human condition, itself. War is timeless, and it may be something that is rooted in us, in what it is to be a human being. If that is so, and if we are to survive, it is important to investigate the parts played by women in war." --Sally Hayton-Keeva
http://valianttruth.wixsite.com/storiesofstrength/about

BAREFOOT THEATRE COMPANY
BAREFOOT STUDIO PICTURES
Francisco Solorzano, Actor /Producing Aritstic Director

Barefoot Theatre Company is a multicultural collective of actors, writers, directors and filmmakers specializing in the development and incubation of new work and the cultivation of new attention for lesser-known works by long-established authors, with a vital, thought-provoking eye toward themes of diversity and inclusion.
 
www.barefoottheatrecompany.org 

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