The Bridge Initiative returns to Tempe Center for the Arts with A Feminine Ending and just be in January 2022. Both offerings interrogate gender and identity in different and complementary ways. The performances run Friday, January 14th through Saturday, January 22nd, 2022, tickets $12-$30 (plus fees) with a discount if you purchase tickets to both events.
In a regional premiere from Sarah Treem (TV’s The Affair, House of Cards, In Treatment), directed by Daniela Crispo, A Feminine Ending is a gentle, bittersweet comedy about a girl who knows what she wants, but not quite how to get it. Having recently graduated from a major conservatory, and with a rocker boyfriend on the brink of stardom, aspiring composer Amanda Blue’s “extraordinary life” seems to be all mapped out. But when she runs home to answer her mother’s distress call, Amanda’s grand plan starts to unravel. The play offers no easy answers for a woman's quest to find her voice.
Local theatre artist Maybe Stewart and their ensemble of actors then ask: What does it mean to truly find yourself? What would it look like to let yourself just be? Using the playwright’s personal narrative as a jumping-off point, this interactive evening of poetry, movement, theatre, and conversation explores gender, trauma, and identity in a unique, vulnerable, and piercingly honest format. This world premiere staged workshop presentation is the second step in the piece's evolution from concept to full production. Content warning: mature themes, including trans/BIPOC trauma, child abuse, and sexual assault.
As a preview for these events, Bridge curates a dialogue with directors Crispo and Stewart, joined by original New York producer of A Feminine Ending, Billy Russo, in a program called Monthly Muse, Sunday, January 9th, 2022, part of Building Bridges @ ASU Kerr. The program will feature scenes from both productions as well as Q&A with the creatives to learn about the origins of the work and the process for Bridge's productions.
A Feminine Ending and just be are partially funded by a City of Tempe Wavemaker Arts Grant. Evening performances 7:30pm, matinees 3:00 pm, January 14-22, 2022, at Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W. Rio Salado, Tempe, AZ 85281. Tickets $12/$15 students/seniors; $15/30 general admission; $25 VIP seats (plus fees); discounts for the purchase of both shows, and for residents of Tempe: https://www.tempecenterforthearts.com/events/resident-artists/the-bridge-initiative
Monthly Muse is produced by The Bridge Initiative in collaboration with ASU Kerr, 6110 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85253, and funded in part by Scottsdale Arts. Tickets pay-what-you-wish from $5 students; $10 general admission (plus fees): https://www.ticketmaster.com/ASU-Kerr-Cultural-Center-tickets-Scottsdale/venue/204827
A Feminine Ending
by Sarah Treem
January 14 - 7:30
January 15 - 3:00 & 7:30
January 20 - 7:30
January 21 - 7:30
January 22 - 7:30
Director:
DANIELA CRISPO
Stage Manager:
MARISSA BECKETT
Scenic Designer:
BRUNELLA PROVVIDENTE
Lighting Designer:
STACEY WALSTON
Composer:
BRUCE BRAY
Costume Designer:
LINDSEY GARDNER-PENNER
Prop Designer:
NATALIE WARD
Production Manager:
CAILA ROCHELLE
Technical Director:
CHERYL BRILEY
Dramaturg:
SHAWNEEN ROWE
Producing Artistic Director
BRENDA JEAN FOLEY
Cast:
ALANA SAMUELS, ALEX KASS, GUSTAVO FLORES, SHARI WATTS, TOM KOELBEL
Understudies:
CODY GOULDER, HAMBLET LEMUS, LYDIA CORBIN, MICHELLE HERRO
just be
by Maybe Stewart
January 16 - 3:00
January 19 - 7:30
Director/Writer:
MAYBE STEWART
Assistant Director/Lighting Design:
ALEKS HOLLIS
Production Stage Manager:
AUTUMN ALTON
Production Manager:
CAILA ROCHELLE
Producing Artistic Director:
BRENDA JEAN FOLEY
Cast:
BRIDGET RUSSELL, CASSANDRA NICHOLSON, DREW LEATHEM, LAMAR OVERTON, SAMANTHA HANNA, SARAH SCHALICK
Primary Understudy:
BRAY LAWRENCE
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