arizona women's theatre company

past productions:

funny, suspenseful, powerful stories

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By May 2008, the end of our fourth season, AZWTC will have mounted 19 productions:

(1) Talking With, by Jane Martin, AZWTC inaugural benefit performance May 15, 2004, focused on a diverse group of women in crisis;

(2) Talking With, July 24-August 5, 2004, Herberger Lunch Time Theater;

(3) Necessary Targets by Eve Ensler, November 4-27, 2004.  A critically-acclaimed award-winning play about refugees in Bosnia;

(4) Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival, short films by a diverse group of women, January 28-29, 2005, Scottsdale Community College;

(5) A Conversation With Edith Head, a gala fundraiser and one-woman show starring Susan Claassen, March 19, 2005;

(6) Invited presentation Talking With, Herberger Lunch Time Theater, Sept 13-23, 2005;

(7) World premiere of Complications, by Monica Long Ross, November 4-27, 2005; 

(8) Tongue of a Bird by Ellen McLaughlin, February 3-26, 2006.  A woman's search for a missing girl becomes a search for her own past;

(9) Raise the Roof--Short Plays by Wendy Wasserstein, April 28-30, 2006;

(10) Living Out by Lisa Loomer, Nov 3-26, 2006.  An examination of the interdependent experiences of Anglo mothers and the undocumented Latinas they hire as nannies;

(11) An Evening with Canadian Playwrights Sherry MacDonald and Meah Martin, Nov 5, 2006.  Sponsored by the Dept of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Canadian Consulate Generals, LA and Phoenix, and the Canada Council for the Arts;

(12) Girl, 20, by Ellen Fairey, Feb 2-25, 2007.  A story of obsession and betrayal as a female college student's counselling sessions are observed from behind a two-way mirror by male students;

(13)  Well, by Lisa Kron, April 5-29, 2007, directly from Broadway to Scottsdale!  This hilarious and brazen piece of theater questions what it means to be "well";

(14) The Pandora Festival, May 11-12 and 19-20, 2007, a celebration of new work by Arizona women playwrights;

(15) Be Aggressive, October 12-21, 2007, by Annie Weisman. A satirical look at suburban life; 

(16) California Transit, awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, October 24, 2007.  Reading and discussion by author and playwright Diane Lefer;

(17) Maybe Baby, It's You, February 5 and 6, 2008, by Charlie Shanian and Shari Simpson.  A special presentation of Canyon Moon Theatre's acclaimed production to benefit the Arizona Women's Theatre Company;

(18) The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, by Rebecca Gilman, March 7-22, 2008. A funny, subversive examination of sports, art, identity, and being who you want to be;

(19) The Second Annual Pandora Festival, May 16-18 and May 30-June 1, 2008.  A celebration of new work by Arizona women playwrights.

 

Highlights from past seasons include:    

 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES--IMMIGRATION COMES HOME!

LIVING OUT, by Lisa Loomer, directed by Debra K. Stevens

November 3-26,2006*

Living Out produced by Arizona Women's Theatre Company

An outrageously funny and ultimately tragic exploration of Anglo mothers and the undocumented Latina women they hire as nannies

 

 

GIRL, 20, by Ellen Fairey, directed by Deborah Carrick

February 2-25, 2007*

 

  girl 20 presented by Arizona Women's Theatre Company
Don't tell your mother about this one!  Set on a college campus, girl, 20 tells the story of a freshman student who finds herself in a school counseling program after writing a sexually explicit essay for her English class.  When her sessions are observed from behind a two-way mirror by two male students, things take a turn toward obsession and betrayal.  Adult language. Inappropriate for children.

                                    

 

WELL, by Lisa Kron, directed by Ann Tully

April 5-29, 2007*

 

Well presented by Arizona Women's Theatre Company

From Broadway to Scottsdale!  This riotously funny play explores the alternate universe where your parents live and your therapy has no power.  Lisa's Mom is an inveterate invalid who seldom rises from her La-Z-Boy, and she is also the woman who spearheaded the racial integration of the Lansing, Michigan neighborhood where Lisa grew up.  When Lisa tries to get at the "truth" of this contradiction while her Mother sits on stage listening, the result is a hilarious and brazen piece of theater that questions the nature of what is means to be "well." 
 

THE PANDORA FESTIVAL: SECRETS REVEALED May 11-12,19-20, 2007: A CELEBRATION OF NEW WORK BY ARIZONA WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS 

Pandora festival

Unpublished full length, one-act and 10-minute plays selected by a juried panel for staged readings

Producers Judith Eisenberg and Deborah Carrick

FRIDAY MAY 11 AT 7:30pm

"Coralee's Epiphany" by Terry Earp, directed by Joy Bingham Strimple

"Marked Cards" by Charissa Menefee, directed by Pat Snoyer Black

"Diary of a Lost Mind" by Nessa Hawkins, directed by Judith Eisenberg

SATURDAY MAY 12 AT 2:00pm

"Taste" by Carolyn Allport, directed by Kandyce Hughes

"Quality Time" by Larissa Brewington, directed by Meah Martin

"Off the Couch" by Susan Johnson, directed by Meah Martin

"41 Chevy" by Clara Zwick, directed by Meah Martin

"Pickles" by Pina Sbroca, directed byJoy Bingham Strimple

SATURDAY MAY 12 AT 7:30pm

"Amici" by Micki Shelton, directed by Carolyn Allport

SATURDAY MAY 19 AT 2:00pm

"Throwing Snowballs at the Moon" by Mare Biddle, directed by Delores D'Amore Goldsmith

SATURDAY MAY 19 AT 7:30pm

"Strangers in Egypt" by Carolyn Allport, directed by Deborah Carrick

SUNDAY MAY 20 AT 2:00pm

"Wooden Nickels" by Devorah Medwin, directed by Patty Hackmann

"On Trial for her Life" by Dorothy Daniels Anderson, directed by Kandyce Hughes

"God's Grace" by Karen Mueller Bryson, directed by Joy Bingham Strimple

"You Asked" by Karen Sarver, directed by Joy Bingham Strimple

"The Marsh" by Micki Shelton, directed by Patty Hackmann

SUNDAY MAY 20 AT 7:30pm

"Call It Even" by Devorah Medwin, directed by Zoe Yeoman