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A New Space for Future Ten 4 and a Truckin’ Good Time
| (October 23, 2007) Though the venue has moved, one thing remains the
same: Ten new short works by playwrights from Pittsburgh and beyond
will be featured November 2-10, 2007, in this fourth installment of a
new Pittsburgh theater tradition.
Future Tenant, an alternative art space recently relocated to 819 Penn
Avenue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, and Thank You,
Felix Productions will present Future Ten 4: Good Buddy. Split into two
weekends (Fridays and Saturdays), the festival will feature a varied
collection of plots and characters.
This year’s festival will also feature a trucker theme and a “Trucker
Challenge,” during which audience members will challenge each other for
the illustrious designation of “Mother Trucker.” |
The festival will be presented as follows:
Future Ten 4: Program A – Nov. 2-3 at 8 PM
Ballad of the Sad Gungan by Lissa Brennan
The Unbearable Lightness of Eating by Joseph Lyons
Memory Lane by Josh McIlvain
Safe by Matthew Rohner
Paper Shuffler by Pamela Raia
Future Ten 4: Program B - Nov. 9-10 at 8 PM
12 Sided Die by Fred Betzner
post-script by Robert Isenberg
Viewers Like You by Gayle Pazerski
Tex/Sex by Sloan MacRae
The Cell by Kelly DuMar
Future Ten 4 will also feature the work of six directors, each of whom will helm one or two of the plays. Overseeing the shows are Lissa Brennan, Tami Dixon, Erica Highberg, Joseph Lyons, Brad Stephenson and Stacey Vespaziani.
Future Tenant will open at 7:30 PM each evening during the run of Future Ten 4 and free drinks will be available. There will be a $10 suggested donation collected at the door. Contact brad@thankyoufelix.com for more information. PLEASE NOTE: Seating is limited, and there will be no advance ticket sales.
Future Tenant, located in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, is a project of Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for the Management of Creative Enterprise and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The art space, which features alternative exhibitions and performances by emerging artists from the Carnegie Mellon University community and beyond, is managed by a team of students from the Master of Arts Management program, a joint program of Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Fine Arts and the H. John Heinz, III School of Public Policy and Management.
Thank You, Felix productions exists to spotlight Pittsburgh's local young talent, to demonstrate the benefits of highly collaborative and cooperative productions, to discover innovative ways of keeping live theatre captivating and evocative, and to use non-traditional performance spaces to evoke a more visceral experience.
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