L.A. Playwright Marlan Warren's "Chasing Sangha" Featured at Athena Cats New Works Fest (4/8/17)
Los Angeles, CA, April 06, 2017 --(PR.com)-- Los Angeles playwright Marlan Warren's play, "Chasing Sangha," has been selected for Athena Cats' New Works Festival of 10-Minute Plays, and will be performed as a staged reading Sat., April 8, at the City Garage in Santa Monica's Bergamot Station Arts Center. The event ties in with SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day.
"I'm thrilled Athena Cats invited me to be part of this afternoon of 10-minute plays," said Warren. "Athena Cats--with its focus on women playwrights and directors--is like a dream come true for me."
Athena Cats is the brainchild of playwrights/screenwriters Debbie Bolsky and Laurel Wetzork. This collective of Southern California area female playwrights and directors formed to bring unrepresented works written by women to the stage.
According to the Athena Cats website, the statistics for female playwrights are grim. Twenty-three percent of plays produced during the 2011-2014 season were written by women, according to a Female Playwrights Institute study.
"Our goal is to redress this imbalance," said Athena Cats co-founder Laurel Wetzork.
When Warren's one-act "Bits of Paradise" showcased at The Marsh in San Francisco, it received praise from "Asian Week":
"Based on letters written between Japanese American girls and women in the U.S. internment camps and Japanese American soldiers during World War II, Bits of Paradise places its footprint on the timeline of a much needed theatrical examination of the Asian American journey."
"Chasing Sangha" focuses on a Night in Hell in the California winter desert where two brand new women friends try to achieve mystical enlightenment according to a Shaman Certification course one of them is taking, but Murphy's Law comes along with them. "Sangha" refers to the Buddhist concept of finding strength and protection by bonding with like-minded people.
So is the piece autobiographical?
"It's practically verbatim," laughs Warren.
The festival's 10-minute staged readings are performed in two separate groups with women directors. "Everyone involved sounds amazing," Warren said. "The shows are split into two groups. We come on last at 3pm, but we get to watch everyone else's plays all afternoon. I can't wait to meet them all and experience their work."
Athena Cats Presents New Works Festival
Date: Saturday, April 8, 2017
Times: (see below for show synopses)
1pm: First Group of Plays
3pm: Second Group of Plays
Location:
City Garage, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Building T1
2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404
Free Admission
For more info:
Athena Cats Website: http://www.theathenacats.org
Phone: 310-564-9410
Reservations: rsvp@theathenacats.org
RSVP separately for each show
"I'm thrilled Athena Cats invited me to be part of this afternoon of 10-minute plays," said Warren. "Athena Cats--with its focus on women playwrights and directors--is like a dream come true for me."
Athena Cats is the brainchild of playwrights/screenwriters Debbie Bolsky and Laurel Wetzork. This collective of Southern California area female playwrights and directors formed to bring unrepresented works written by women to the stage.
According to the Athena Cats website, the statistics for female playwrights are grim. Twenty-three percent of plays produced during the 2011-2014 season were written by women, according to a Female Playwrights Institute study.
"Our goal is to redress this imbalance," said Athena Cats co-founder Laurel Wetzork.
When Warren's one-act "Bits of Paradise" showcased at The Marsh in San Francisco, it received praise from "Asian Week":
"Based on letters written between Japanese American girls and women in the U.S. internment camps and Japanese American soldiers during World War II, Bits of Paradise places its footprint on the timeline of a much needed theatrical examination of the Asian American journey."
"Chasing Sangha" focuses on a Night in Hell in the California winter desert where two brand new women friends try to achieve mystical enlightenment according to a Shaman Certification course one of them is taking, but Murphy's Law comes along with them. "Sangha" refers to the Buddhist concept of finding strength and protection by bonding with like-minded people.
So is the piece autobiographical?
"It's practically verbatim," laughs Warren.
The festival's 10-minute staged readings are performed in two separate groups with women directors. "Everyone involved sounds amazing," Warren said. "The shows are split into two groups. We come on last at 3pm, but we get to watch everyone else's plays all afternoon. I can't wait to meet them all and experience their work."
Athena Cats Presents New Works Festival
Date: Saturday, April 8, 2017
Times: (see below for show synopses)
1pm: First Group of Plays
3pm: Second Group of Plays
Location:
City Garage, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Building T1
2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404
Free Admission
For more info:
Athena Cats Website: http://www.theathenacats.org
Phone: 310-564-9410
Reservations: rsvp@theathenacats.org
RSVP separately for each show
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