RUTH MALECZECH
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Plays by Ruth Maleczech
Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting |
| 1st Produced: | The Pier at Gantry Plaza State Park, NY | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Mabou Mines | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | interdisciplinary performance piece | Piece | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music by Lisa Gutkin | |||||
| Synopsis: | The company will perform from a moored barge on a set designed of scaffolding, erected to create a multi-level performance area. The audience on shore will look out on the barge, the East River, and the skyline of the city. In this manner, the entire city serves as a backdrop for the event. The piece evolved from a cycle of poems, each dedicated to one of the five boroughs, commissioned from five New York City writers. Migdalia Cruz, Maggie Dubris, Patricia Spears Jones, Karen Kandel, and Imelda O'Reilly provided the texts which were then adapted by composer Lisa Gutkin into songs that draw on music of many cultures. Eight musicians play the songs live. Between these songs, a chorus of men recounts 'the yarns,' written by historian Nancy Groce - press release | |||||
