NoPassport Conference

This one-day conference focuses on a wide range of contemporary works for theatre and performance viewing the Americas from a variety of formal perspectives. With NoPassport Founder Caridad Svich, and Stephen Duncombe, Sarah Benson, Chantal Bilodeau, Jean Graham-Jones, Debbie Saivetz, Ramon Rivera-Servera, Betty Shamieh, Saviana Stanescu, Jason Grote, Alejandro Morales, Sarah Sunde, Anne Washburn and others.

7549 - Friday, February 22 10am to 9pm
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Four Plays from North Africa

Celebrating the latest Segal Center Publication Four Plays from North Africa with Editor Marvin Carlson. Readings of Julila Baccar's Araberlin from Tunisia, and Tayeb Saddiki's The Folies Berbers from Morocco will be directed by Alicia House and Rafael De Mussa, Horizon Theatre Rep.

7550 - Monday, March 3 6:30pm
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Staging William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury"

Experimental New York theater company Elevator Repair Service will present excerpts from their upcoming stage adaptation of William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury.” In collaboration with the New York Theatre Workshop and the Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY, followed by a discussion with John Collins, Sara Bailes, Morris Dickstein and David Savran.

7551 - Monday, March 17 6:30pm
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The Civilians-Paris Commune

Avant-Garde New York based theatre company The Civilians present excerpts from Paris Commune. The play was inspired by an actual concert that took place in the overthrown imperial palace during the 1871 revolution, using cabaret to radically reinvent society during the days of the Paris Commune. Followed by a discussion with Steven Cosson and Daniel Gerould,. In collaboration with the Ph.D. Program in French, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

7552 - Monday, March 31 6:30pm
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The Lost Apple Plays: Regarding the historic U.S.-Cuban "Pedro Pan" Exodus

Operation Pedro Pan is the name given to the 1960-62 exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied minors from Cuba to the United States. The displaced children and their lost country are often characterized by a Latin American nursery rhyme “La Manzana Perdida” (The Lost Apple). Years after a set of early performances in the children's U.S. camps, performance artist Ana Mendieta, installation Artist María Brito, playwrighst Eduardo Machado Melinda López, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nilo Cruz, compose a Cuba that can be neither lost nor recovered for Pedro Pans. With Kim Pritchard y del Busto and Jason Ramírez, artistic directorts, Dos Alas Theatre

7553 - Monday, April 14 6:30

First Come, First Served; No pre-registration permitted