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Bare Theatre’s presents: Boys and Girls: Three short plays by contemporary playwrights
Bare Theatre presents its first original one-act series. Boys and Girls: Three short plays by contemporary playwrights features three one-act plays by up and coming playwrights from North Carolina and New York.
Burying Barbie, by New York-based playwright Christopher Dimond blends dark humor and touching sadness in the story of a morbid seven-year-old and her imaginary friend. Toys get killed.
boygirlboygirl comes from another NY-based writer Jason Williamson, who was raised in Rocky Mount, NC and got his undergrad degree from UNC-Greensboro. Williamson uses flowing, poetic language to spin a psychological tale of a young man and his obsession with a girl he does not know.
Ask Him in the Morning is written by Bare Theatre’s Resident Director Carmen-maria Mandley. This first-person show-within-a-show details the life and sins of Gunnar Clarence Carpenter, a construct of Mandley’s, who blurs the lines between criminal and victim.
Managing Director G. Todd Buker, who originally wrote and produced for Greensboro-based American Distractions, directs the first two plays. Carmen-maria Mandley directs her own work, with fight choreography by Heather J. Hackford assisted by Jason Bailey.
This production contains strong language, violence, and adult subject matter.
February 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 at 8:00 p.m.
February 14 & 21 at 2:00 pm
Tickets: $15 Adult, $8 Student/Senior/Military
Reservations: (919) 332-0317
Website: Bare Theatre
Stage Hands Performing Arts Presents: Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire
Getting through high school is hard enough — even if you look more like the lunch ladies than your classmates. That’s Kimberly’s problem, the 16-year-old title character who’s saddled with a disease that makes her age at four and a half times the normal rate. For her family to assuage their fear of losing her, they “start over again” by having another baby and moving away…however, they seem to have forgotten that Kimberly’s not dead yet. Directed by Kestrel Heights School student Sean Pollock.
Contains graphic language.
February 26 & 27 at 7:00 p.m.
February 27 & 28 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $5.00
Reservations: (973) 902-3443
One Song Productions Presents: Hamlet
One Song Productions presents William Shakespeare’s timeless tale of tragedy and revenge. The most famous and complex of all Shakespeare’s plays, Hamlet tells the story of a young man who commits himself to revenge the murder of his father. We follow Hamlet through this process and observe the changes that transpire within him, from the first moments of his discovery to the moment when he comes to accept his fate saying, “the readiness is all.” One Song Productions is run entirely by high school students from around the Triangle.
March 4, 5 & 6 at 7:00 p.m
March 6 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $5-8 suggested donation
No reservations
Website: One Song Productions
Transactors Improv Presents: City of Medicine
Join us for our third season of this completely improvised serial medical drama. Inspired by Grey’s Anatomy and E.R., this real-life drama is set at Bull City Medical Center, Durham’s newest teaching hospital. Each show the cast is joined by a special guest who is either saved or killed by our doctors. Don’t miss a single episode!
City of Medicine: Where who you heal is not nearly as important as whose heart you steal.
Fridays: March 12, April 2 & June 11 at 8pm Eastern
Tickets: $12-General, $10-Students & Seniors
Reservations: (919) 698-3870 or by E-mail
Website: Transactors Improv
Princess Dragon Productions Presents: Mama Juggs: Three Generations Healing Negative Body Images
Written and performed by ‘rie Shontel, Mama Juggs is a provocative one-woman show that challenges black female body awareness in an Oakland, CA housing project. Each character – ages 17, 27, 47 and 100 – create a healing salve to overcome cultural taboos as they deal with breast cancer, late puberty bra stuffing, old age, and the frustrations of breast feeding. A ‘capella breast-feeding songs passed down from ‘rie’s great-grandmother are included in the performance. The shows are a prelude to ‘rie Shontel’s much-anticipated July reunion with her family’s ancestral tribe in Cameroon, Africa.
Proceeds will support ‘rie’s journey and improving her Tikar tribe’s access to healthcare/education.
March 19 & 20 at 8:00 pm
Tickets: $25
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Website: rie Shontel“
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FatMouth Improv
Silliness with a purpose! Short and longform improv based on audience suggestions—all in one evening.
Saturdays: April 3 & May 29 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $8.00
Information: (919) 698-3870
Website: FatMouth Improv