365 PLAYS/365 DAYS BY SUZAN LORI PARKS

In November 2002, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks committed to writing a play a day for the next 365 days. The world premiere of this play cycle, 365 Plays/365 Days, is being performed as a yearlong national festival simultaneously in 14 major cities by over 600 theatres in the largest theatre collaboration in U.S. history. The 365 National Festival, produced by Suzan-Lori Parks and Bonnie Metzgar, features performances in Washington DC, Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City, San Francisco and Seattle, along with the Carolinas, Mississippi River towns, and university campuses. 365 Days/365 Plays began in November 13, 2006 and runs until November 12, 2007.

Run of the Mill Theater company (it's anything but!), the only Baltimore theater to be participating in this remarkable national project, will be producing week 42 of Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Plays/365 Days, in conjunction with students from the University of California, Irvine. Directed by James Knipple, the company's Founding Director, and Shirley Basfield Dunlap, Coordinator of Morgan State University's Theatre Program. The production will take place during the week of August 27-September 2, 2007. Location: Turpin Lamb Theater in the Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center, 2201 Argonne Drive, Baltimore MD 21251

BLOOD WEDDING BY FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

October 11–21 – Run of the Mill returns to Theatre Project with a production of Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding directed by David D. Mitchell.

Based on a true story of love, lust, and betrayal, Blood Wedding is one of the most powerful and innovative plays written this century. Federico Garcia Lorca wrote his best known play after reading a newspaper account of a young bride in Andalusia who abandoned her husband-to-be on their wedding day to escape with her childhood sweetheart. Lorca evokes the spectacle of human passion through sophisticated and often surrealistic poetic technique, elevating the love story to a tragedy of fate.

SPEAKING ON SILENCE PART III

Run of the Mill Theater will develop and produce several one-act plays, based on audience contributions and interviews, about the effects of silence. In partnership with Art on Purpose and performing artist Gina Braden, Speaking on Silence, is an exploration of silence and the power it has in shaping who we are and how we relate to the world. Speaking of Silence I focused on silence in art, the experience of youth and silence, and revealed art as an empowering and expressive way to break silence. The exhibit also includes Youth & Silence, photos and audio of Baltimore youth reflecting on friends, family, and school, by Beth Barbush and Yutaka Houlette, and Notes on Silence, reflections by Andrew Shenker on Art on Purpose's ongoing series of interviews about silence. Speaking of Silence public programs are sponsored through the generous support of the Cohen Opportunity Fund.

THE VARIATIONS PROJECT 2008

VARIATIONS ON POWER

The Variations Project features ten one-act plays written by local playwrights in response to the audience-selected theme of justice. Variations on POWER marks the fourth annual Variations Project, conceived by Run of the Mill company members as a forum for collaboration in which Baltimore audiences provide source material for local playwrights to generate new work. The source material for VARIATIONS ON POWER will be gathered through interviews, surveys, writings, and recordings during the source party LOCATION TBA. Previous Run of the Mill productions, created in a culturally diverse and collaborative environment, have won local acclaim. In 2006, Variations on Fear, was named Best Production of 2006 by City Paper and received a Greater Baltimore Theater Award for Outstanding Experimental Production. In 2005, Variations on Desire won the Greater Baltimore Theater Award for Outstanding Experimental Production.

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