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Desipina Productions, Inc. presents
Seven 11 Convenience Theatre (2006)
Thursday, March 30, 2006 through Sunday, April 23, 2006
"A CONSISTANT DELIGHT! Thrillingly diverse in terms of ethnicity, creative contributors and points of view!"--nytheatre.com
Length: 00 hrs 77 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
Seven Stories. Eleven minutes each. All in a 7-11.
The fourth annual edition of Desipina & Company's critically-acclaimed series that explores both the funny and poignant aspects of the immigrant experience in America via seven diverse eleven-minute plays and musicals...all set within the confines of a 7-11 convenience store.
This year's line-up includes a kung-fu hustler, run-away teenagers, convenience store surprise reunions, a futuristic free-for-all for Manhattan, and not one but TWO original pop musicals. Ranging from the humorous (an out-of-work actor from Broadway’s “Bombay Dreams” working at a 7-11 finds true love near the Slurpee machine) to the serious (a desperate teenage girl runs away from home to escape an arranged marriage), the seven works come together to form a compelling mosaic of the joys and sorrows of immigrant life in America.
The three previous editions of the “SEVEN.11” series were produced at the Lower East Side’s Tenement Theatre, where they were lauded by audiences and critics alike. Martin Denton from NYTheatre.com called the evening “a consistent delight...thrillingly diverse in terms of ethnicity, creative contributors and points of view. The result is a lively, exciting, interesting look at contemporary life, as seen from vantage points not typically assumed is so-called mainstream theatre.” Offoffonline.com wrote that “you will never look at a convenience store the same way again.”
Featured in the cast: SEAN T. KRISHNAN (Tony Kushner’s “Homebody/Kabul” at New York Theatre Workshop, guest appearances on TV’s JAG and Law & Order), JEROLD E. SOLOMAN (national tour of “Big River“), BILL CALEO (“Uncle Vanya” with Amanda Plummer at the McCarter) as well as MEETU CHILANA, ANDREW GUILARTE, JOHN WU and ALICIA YING. |
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