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Articulating The Arts:
The Art of Protest


April 3 - 6th, 2019
TADA Theatre
15 W. 28th St, NYC



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Articulating the Arts is Articulate Theatre Company's signature benefit event. It brings together our Company members and guest artists with unique works of art to use as a springboard and source of inspiration for new theatre works. Our first installment focused on playwrights taking "one image" and giving us A Thousand Words. The second one took the images Off The Wall and put them on the stage! Our third AtA, Folk City Scenes, moved us from the visual arts to the musical arts, and our fourth let us bring old folklore to the modern stage with Tales in Time.

Today's world has challenged us to look at how artists impact change in the world through protest images, as our playwrights create new theatre works in response to the art created to invoke change in our society and beyond: The Art of Protest!

THE PLAYS

Check out our line-up and learn more about the creative teams behind each show.
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THE IMAGES

See the inspiration behind the plays, as well as other images from protests through the ages.
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THE GUESTS

Articulate is an ensemble but we love hosting guest artists. Learn more about them here.
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CHARACTER BREAKDOWN FOR
ART OF PROTEST PLAYS

Before Yesterday Was Better, by Robin Rice
Genre: Drama     Protest Art:  #29 Knotted Gun    Topic(s): Gun Control
Cast #:   2           Cast Specifics: 1 older male; 1 teen female; both prob white
Length: 8-10 mins / 8.5 pgs       Setting: Graveyard, Vermont, 2016
GRANPA...65-75. Crusty Vermonter. Owns a junk/antique shop in tiny, rural St. Albans. Sammi's grandfather.
SAMMI...16. Pink hair, tattoos, pierced tongue, ripped jeans. A bit of a rebel. Always lived in St. Albans.

Consequences, by Judd Lear Silverman
Genre: Drama     Protest Art:  #12 Sit with Kaepernick    Topic(s): Free Speech; Black Lives Matter
Cast #:   2           Cast Specifics: 2 women, mid 30s
Length: 8-10 mins / 10 pgs       Setting: High school principals ofc, present
EMILY GOLDEN, mid-30s mother and psychologist, Benji’s Mom
JOY STEINERT, mid-late 30s, principal of the Fordbrook School, old friend of Emily’s
Setting:  Principal Joy Steinert’s office at the Fordbrook School, the present.

Eenie Meanie Minie No, by Jaisey Bates
Genre: Drama w/mvt     Protest Art:  Kids Are Alright    Topic(s): Gun Control
Cast #:   3           Cast Specifics: Adults, open
Length: 5-8 mins / 5 pgs       Setting: Open
EENIE A girl.  MEENIE A boy.  MINEY A girl.

Hashtag Bastille, by Scott C. Sickles
Genre: Humorous     Protest Art:  #17 Nou Somes le Pouvoir   Topic(s): Resistance, Treason, Social Media
Cast #:   2           Cast Specifics: The actors can be adults of any age, race, or gender.
Length: 8-10 mins / 10 pgs      Setting: Coffee shop, present
FLYNN DUPREE: Low key and patient, to a point. Angry about the government and writes about it.
RORY CASTERBRIDGE: Enthusiastic and a bit much.

Hashtag Jones, by Liv Matthews
Genre: Drama     Protest Art:  #4 Hands up    Topic(s): Black Lives Matter, Social media
Cast #:   3           Cast Specifics: 1 young black male; 1 slightly older white male; 1 20s black female
Length: 5-8 mins / 4 pgs       Setting: The Internet, present, In the time of hashtags.
Hashtag/Jamal Jones African American teen. 17 Male. Electric. Wears a hoodie.
Commentator Social media user. 20s+ Male White.
Activist prominent on social media 20s+ Female African American

Melting the ICE, by J. B. Alexander
Genre: Drama     Protest Art:  Families Together      Topic(s): Immigration; child separation
Cast #:   2           Cast Specifics: 1 male 30s-40s; 1 female 30-40s prob Hispanic
Length: 8-10 mins / 9.5 pgs       Setting: ICE detention facility
Gabriella Villa: ICE officer, early 30s
Mark Rosenblum: attorney, mid-40s

Perversity, by Elizabeth Gordon
Genre: Drama w/humor    Protest Art:  Eat    Topic(s): War, Artist’s role in protest
Cast #:   4        Cast Specifics: 1 white male 80s, 1 white male 30-40s, 1 white female 20s, 1 black male 20
Length: 8-10 mins / 8 pgs       Setting: Multiple: Columbia Uni in 1967 and present
WHITE MALE #1: TOMI UNGERER, 85, an artist
WHITE FEMALE: YVONNE BETTIS, a student, and PANELIST #1
WHITE MALE #2: HERMAN CHASE, a professor, and PANELIST #2
BLACK MALE: LEWIS PINCKNEY, a student, and the MODERATOR

This is Bull, by Jeff Dunne
Genre: Comedy     Protest Art:  #24 Fearless Girl   Topic(s): Women’s rights, workplace prejudice
Cast #:   3           Cast Specifics: 1 male; 1 female; 1 open
Length: 10+mins / 12 pgs       Setting: Contemporary office
Notes/Challenges: British accents
INTERVIEWER A somewhat bipolar man who is used to being in control, and doesn’t handle it well when that control is taken away.
APPLICANT A woman who wants to be a professional writer, and is not going to accept the absurd, artificial limitations being imposed upon her.
SECOND APPLICANT Another person looking to be a writer.

Triggered, by Thomas C. Dunn
Genre: Drama     Protest Art:  #29 Knotted Gun/#4 Hands up     Topic(s): Gun Control
Cast #:   4           Cast Specifics: 2 males 40s, 2 females 30s-40s;
Length: 10+ mins / 10 pgs       Setting: Upscale living room
Heidi: 40’s. A senator. Stately and polished. Beautiful in a manufactured sort of way.
David: 40’s. A lawyer. The perfect hair and grooming of a man who likes to be seen and admired.
Virginia: Early 30’s. Plain-looking. Dark insomnia rings, eyes swollen from crying. Highly intelligent. Internal strength beneath outward fragility.
Ohio: 40’s. Blue-collar. Beer belly. Unshaven. He’d be happy with nothing more than family, good friends
and weekend fishing trips. But fate intervened.

Yearning for Peace, by Bara Swain

Genre: Comedy     Protest Art:  War is Not Healthy…    Topic(s): War, Feminism
Cast #:   2           Cast Specifics: 1 male; 1 female; similar ages
Length: 8-10 mins / 9 pgs       Setting: living room
Notes/Challenges: Female is visibly pregnant
ABBY: late 20s-30s; Abby is nine months pregnant. Both her pregnancy and personal values drive her emotional mood swings, but Abby’s heart is in the right place. She is inquisitive, loyal, and opinionated.
JOHN: Abby’s husband. John is baffled by his wife’s temperament. By nature, he is attentive and easy-going, but he reverts to childish behavior when his buttons are pushed.

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