[Capdist-announce] PRESS RELEASE: WAM Theatre Fresh Takes Play Reading of Really Set for May 7

[Gail Burns]

April 20, 2017

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WAM Theatre Fresh Takes Play Reading of Really Set for May 7

LENOX, MA (April 20, 2017) -  The WAM Theatre 2017 Fresh Takes Play reading
series continues with Really by Jackie Sibblies Drury at 3:30 pm on Sunday,
May 7 at No. Six Depot Roastery and Café in West Stockbridge. Alice Reagan
- director of Shakespeare & Company’s acclaimed 2016 production of Or, -
will direct.

The cast includes Danielle Davenport (Playwrights Horizons’ Men on Boats),
Ariel Bock (Shakespeare & Company’s Ugly Lies the Bone) and David Bertoldi
(Shakespeare & Company’s 2017 Northeast Regional Tour). Time Out New York
called the play, ”an unnerving study of art as pollution, distraction from
a world fast evolving beyond aesthetics.”

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is seen in the snapshots of
our lives? Really explores the relationships of a young woman taking
pictures of her former boyfriend’s mom. Both women clutch their memories of
him, as they search to redefine themselves in his wake. WAM Theatre invites
Berkshire audiences to partake in this piece about artists, legacy and
photography. Really premiered with the New York City Players in 2016
and explores
what we find in life, what we leave behind in death, and where both
intersect.

"I brought Really to Molly Clancy and we were both very intrigued by it,"
director Alice Reagan explained. "Jackie Sibblies Drury is one of the most
exciting playwrights working today. The way she deals with racial issues is
bracing. She doesn’t try to make her characters ‘good’ people, instead she
deals with who they are, and as a result her characters are complicated, in
process individuals."

There are only 30 tickets available per reading. Tickets are $20, which
includes a post-show conversation and the opportunity to meet the cast and
director. Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Café. The 2017
Fresh Takes Series is generously supported by No. Six Depot and the
Dramatists Guild Fund.

The Fresh Takes Series continues on Sunday, June 4 with The Droll by Meg
Miroshnik and directed by WAM Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven at No
Six Depot in West Stockbridge. The details of the final reading of 2017 are
still being firmed up, but it will take place this summer and will be
hosted in Williamstown by the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

AT A GLANCE

May 7, 2017

Really

by Jackie Sibblies Drury

directed by Alice Reagan

featuring David Bertoldi, Ariel Bock, and Danielle Davenport

http://www.wamtheatre.com/really/

Fresh Takes Play Reading Series

Curated by WAM Theatre’s Artistic Associate Molly Clancy and hosted by No.
Six Depot Roastery and Café on 6 Depot Street in West Stockbridge, MA, on
select Sundays at 3:30 pm.

There are only 30 tickets available per reading. Tickets are $20, which
includes a post-show conversation and the opportunity to meet the cast and
director. Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Café.

Please note all sales are final. No refunds available. Patrons may exchange
tickets up to 48 hours before curtain– not including special event
one-night performances. No refunds or exchanges for already discounted
tickets.

For tickets and more information visit:

http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-2017/

ABOUT THE CAST

DAVID BERTOLDI (Boyfriend) WAM Theatre: Debut. Elsewhere: Shakespeare &
Company: Romeo/ Balthazar & Oberon/ Theseus (Romeo & Juliet/ A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, 2017 Northeast Regional Tour), Rick/ Jean-Luc (Marcus is
Walking, staged reading), Sergeant Malcolm (Curse of the Starving Class,
staged reading); Screaming Majority NYC: Governor Prudblood (Waste, Fraud
and Abuse); Clark University: Emcee (Cabaret), Tartuffe (Tartuffe),
Melchior Gabor (Spring Awakening); Town Players of Pittsfield: Seymour
Krelborn (Little Shop of Horrors). Training: Shakespeare & Company; Clark
University Visual & Performing Arts.

ARIEL BOCK* (Mother) WAM Theatre: Fresh Takes Reading Measure for Measure.
Elsewhere: A longtime member of Shakespeare & Company where she is
currently Producing Associate, Ariel has served as Artistic Associate,
Interim Artistic Director and Manager of Institutional Giving. Acting
credits at Shakespeare & Company include Mom in Ugly Lies the Bone,
Mistress Quickly in Henry IV pts 1&2, Goneril in King Lear, Beatrice in Much
Ado About Nothing, Elizabeth in Richard III, Audrey in As You Like it,
Hippolyta in Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Nurse in Romeo and Juliet,
Mistress Quickly in Merry Wives of Windsor, Paulina in The Winters Tale,
Ruth in Private Eyes, the woman in Laughing Wild, Arlene in Off the Map
along with many others. At Mixed Company: Ramona in Zara Spook and Other
Lures and Eileen in The Cripple of Inishmaan. Ariel has also worked
extensively with the Ensemble for the Romantic Century in NYC, playing
Nadezhda VonMeck in None But the Lonely Heart, Fanny Mendelsohn, Emily
Dickinson, Sonia Tolstoy and Anna Akhmatova. A Designated Linklater Voice
Teacher, she has taught voice for actors at Dartmouth, Smith, MIT, and at
many Shakespeare & Company workshops.

DANIELLE DAVENPORT (Girlfriend) WAM Theatre: Debut. New York credits: Men
on Boats (Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb), An Octoroon (Theatre for a
New Audience) Neighbors, All’s Well That Ends Well (Public Theater), Adoration
of the Old Woman (INTAR), Be the Death of Me (The Civilians). Workshops and
readings with Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, The Lark,
MCC, Playwrights’ Realm, Hartford Stage and others. Television: The
Breaks (VH1),
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), Master of None (Netflix), Boardwalk
Empire (HBO). A proud alumna of Barnard College, Columbia University.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY

WAM Theatre: Debut. Elsewhere: Is a Brooklyn based playwright. Plays
include We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia,
Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between
the Years 1884-1915, Really, and Social Creatures. Jackie’s plays have been
presented by New York City Players and Abrons Arts Center, Soho Rep,
Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Matrix Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain
Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, Available Light,
Company One, and The Bush Theatre in London, among others. Her work has
been developed at Sundance, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Manhattan
Theatre Club, Ars Nova, A.C.T., The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, New York
Theatre Workshop, PRELUDE.11&14, The Civilians, The Bushwick Starr, The
LARK, The Magic Theatre, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival and The
MacDowell Colony. Jackie was a dramaturg for Futurity by Cesar Alvarez and
The Lisps, Zero Cost House by Pig Iron Theatre Company & Toshiki Okada and The
Garden by Nichole Canuso Dance Company. Awards: She received a 2015
Windham-Campbell Literary Prize in Drama, a 2012-2013 Van Lier Fellowship
at New Dramatists, and was the inaugural recipient of the 2012-2014 Jerome
Fellowship at The LARK. Jackie is a NYTW Usual Suspect and a 2015 United
States Artists Gracie Fellow.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: ALICE REAGAN

WAM Theatre: Debut. Elsewhere:Or, by Liz Duffy Adams at Shakespeare &
Co., Elliot,
A Soldier’s Fugue at Profile Theatre, Jackie by Elfriede Jelinek at Boom
Arts, both in Portland, Oregon. In New York, Alice has directed at Classic
Stage Company, La Mama, The Chocolate Factory, and Incubator Arts Project.
Training: MFA: Columbia  Awards: Princess Grace Award, Princess Grace
Special Project Grant, Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant (2), Drama
League Directing Fellow. Online: alicereagan.com  Et cetera: Alice is
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Directing at Barnard
College/Columbia University. Upcoming: Pattern Seeking Animals, a new play
by Gabrielle Reisman.

OUR SEASON SPONSORS

WAM Theatre is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support
from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities; and by the Massachusetts Cultural Council
Cultural. Our 2017 sponsors include Adams Community Bank, Berkshire
Magazine, Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, Blue Q, Brabson Library &
Educational Foundation, Canyon Ranch, Custom Business Solutions, The
Dylandale Foundation, The Feigenbaum Foundation, Futures Education, the
Garden Gables Inn, Greylock Federal Credit Union, Guido’s Fresh
Marketplace, In Touch Printing, International Schools Theatre Association,
Interprint, Dr. Jay Wise, DDS & Dr. Casey Jones, DMD,  Lee Bank,
Massachusetts Cultural Council, MAXYMILLIAN Technologies, Methuselah Bar
and Lounge, No. Six Depot Roastery and Café, RB Design Co., Redfin, The
Rookwood Inn, Rouge Restaurant & Bistro, The Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn
Foundation, T Square Design Studio, Toole Insurance, and a. von schlegell &
co.

WAM Theatre is also supported in part by grants from the Alford-Egremont
Cultural Council, Dalton Cultural Council, Lenox Cultural Council, New
Marlborough Cultural Council, Pittsfield Cultural Council, Cultural Council
of Northern Berkshires , Otis Cultural Council, Richmond Cultural Council,
Sandisfield Cultural Council, Stockbridge Cultural Council, Washington
Cultural Council, and West Stockbridge Cultural Council – local agencies
that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

ABOUT WAM THEATRE

Based in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, WAM Theatre is Where Arts and
Activism Meet. The company was co-founded in 2010 by Canadian director,
actor, educator, and producer Kristen van Ginhoven. WAM’s vision is to
create opportunity for women and girls through the mission of theatre as
philanthropy.

Inspired by the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for
Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, WAM donates a
portion of the proceeds from its theatrical events to organizations that
benefit women and girls.

Since 2010, WAM Theatre has donated more than $32,500 to twelve nonprofit
organizations and provided paid work to more than 200 theatre artists. In
addition to the main stage productions and special events, WAM Theatre’s
activities include a comprehensive educational outreach program and the
Fresh Takes Play Reading Series. For more information, visit
www.WAMTheatre.com

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-- 
Gail M. Burns

*Marketing + Publicity Associate*
www.WAMTheatre.com <http://www.wamtheatre.com/>
413-274-8122

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