Z Plays Development Program
Playwrights Foundation and Cutting Ball Theater
and the San Francisco arts community present
a
play a day by Suzan-Lori
Parks
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In November 2002, the Pulitzer prize-winning Suzan-Lori Parks sat down and committed to writing a play a day for the next 365 days. The world premiere of this play cycle will be performed as a yearlong national festival simultaneously in major cities and communities around the country. From November 13, 2006 to November 12, 2007, over 600 theaters in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Washington D.C., Chicago, Minneapolis, the Carolinas, Mississippi River towns, and university campuses will create the largest theater collaboration in U.S. History.
The Z Space Studio, in conjunction with the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and Cutting Ball Theater, will spearhead the San Francisco component 365 Days/365 Plays by gathering together a widely diverse cross-section of city’s theater companies to participate in this project. Throughout the year, the selected theaters - curated by the Z Space Studio and the 365 Days/365 Plays Project - will perform these brief, brilliant snapshots from the imagination of one of America's leading playwrights in numerous locations throughout the city.
To capture the rich theatrical and cultural landscape of San Francisco, the Z Space Studio and the 365 Days/365 Plays Project are now seeking applications from eligible theater partners throughout the five boroughs to participate in the staging of 365 Days/365 Plays. In order to apply, applicants must be based in the greater Bay Area (including San Jose) from the following groups: producing organizations, presenting organizations, theater companies and independent artists with a track record for self-producing. Each of the 52 participants will be responsible for producing one week (seven plays) in the 365 Days/365 Plays cycle. Participants can produce their work in traditional theater spaces or site-specific locations. They can be staged readings or fully produced – but all must be in the spirit of celebrating the vibrancy of San Francisco’s theater tradition with audiences and artists from every corner of the city.
“365 Days / 365 Plays is something that could only have sprung from the imagination of Suzan-Lori Parks, one of America’s greatest dramatists. Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a play every day for a year, and the results bear testimony to the devotional discipline of her work. Each of the plays is a tiny, brilliant jewel, written with imaginative joy and theatrical invention."
— Oskar Eustis
"One
day Bonnie Metzgar asked me 'What's up with those 365 plays?' 'I've
done them,' I said. 'Yeah, but now you've got to do them,' Bonnie
said. And together we created a production model which would speak
to the spirit of my plays: a simultaneous and shared world premiere
involving hundreds of
theatres around the country."
— Suzan-Lori Parks
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