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Urban Stages presents
Live Girls
Monday, October 23, 2006 through Sunday, November 26, 2006
"Victoria Stewart’s drama “Live Girls” makes a forceful case that reality-based theater can be as artificial as reality television. " - Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
Length: 1 hr 20 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
"Compelling...heady and charged material. ...Under Lou Jacob's assured direction and featuring a trio of richly realized performances, Live Girls unfolds with gripping intensity."" - Backstage
Sex and performance art collide in LIVE GIRLS, a play about an Anna Deavere Smith-like performance artist who interviews a porn star for a piece on social injustice.
As expectations are challenged and the interview turns increasingly personal, "reality based" theatre icon Sarah finds herself asking a new set of questions. What is real and what is performance? What's personal and what's public? Who benefits from art and who are its victims? And when Sarah allows her own assistant to interview her, she begins to ask another question: who's exploiting whom? Playwright Victoria Stewart, a recipient of the Helen Merrill Award for emerging playwrights, explores race, sex, and ethics in this entertaining play that the Boston Globe called a "riveting, multi-layered and deeply intelligent work." Director Lou Jacob (Sam Shepard's The God of Hell with Tim Roth, Randy Quaid, J. Smith-Cameron) returns to Urban Stages after drama-desk nominated Coyote on a Fence.
with Pamela Hart,* Suli Holum,* Jenny Maguire*, Joe Medina
Set Design: John McDermott
Lighting Design: Josh Bradford
Costume Design: Amela Baksic
Sound Design: Lindsay Jones
Stage Manager: Ashley Delegal*
* appearing courtesy of AEA
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