[Capdist-announce] Ancram Center's Summer Play Lab Series Continues July 7 with Centuries

[Lauren Letellier]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*



*Ancram Center’s Summer Play Lab Series Continues with*

*Centuries, **a Concert Collaboration*



*Summer Play Lab,* now in its fifth season at Ancram Center for the Arts,
offers theater artists space, production support, and a budget to develop
and present new works. This year’s second Summer Play Lab showing will be a
first-look production on July 7 at 4pm of *Centuries,* an immersive concert
collaboration from Matthew Dean Marsh *(You Don’t Know the Lonely One*),
Kate Douglas *(The Lucky Few*), and singer-composer Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez.




*Centuries *follows a Midwest family through two generations and examines
how landscapes and people change over time. At this production, the
creators will talk through the libretto and perform many of the score’s
songs, which are infused with folk, chamber and soul music. Tickets may be
purchased online at ancramcenter.org. General Admission: $20; student
tickets $15 with ID. The complete production of *Centuries *will return to
Ancram Center in October for its world premiere.



The final 2024 Summer Play Lab showing will be *Conversations *on August 4
at 4pm. Created and performed by Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby, in
collaboration with The Civilians, NYC, this music-theater piece features
songs drawn from Redbone’s conversations with tribal elders, family members
and advisors who have been in her life for decades. Redbone is celebrated
for her tasty gumbo of roots music that combines the folk and mountain
blues sounds of her Appalachian childhood and the electric grit of her
teenage years in pre-gentrified Brooklyn. She inherited her powerful
gospel-singing father's voice and the resilient spirit of her mother's
Southwestern heritage. *The New Yorker *calls her music "a brilliant
collision of cultures."



Ancram Center for the Arts is an award-winning theater located in New
York's Hudson Valley. Housed in an historic Grange Hall, Ancram Center has
since 2016 presented groundbreaking theater and musical performances by
nationally recognized theater artists. Ancram Center for the Arts receives
significant annual support from the New York State Council on the Arts and
in 2023 was awarded a generous grant from the National Endowment for the
Arts. For tickets and information visit www.ancramcenter.org.


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