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McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton, N.J.)
Presented by Pulitzer Prize-winner, Paula Vogel, Bard at the Gate offers a simple glance at plays that are ground-breaking: plays that were too ambitious, too quirky and too smart to be contained. Strong scripts. Raw talent. New audiences. New Bards. The plays in the series have been chosen by Ms. Vogel from among the hundreds and hundreds of scripts she has read and/or mentored over four decades: works that have been overlooked and never produced, along with plays that deserve a wider audience. In the afterlife you're given one chance to make a statement about your life. Your words go out into the universe to be "recycled among the living." You can tell a story, make a confession, argue with existence, bargain with God, whatever you want. In "Sonnets for an Old Century," 18 recently deceased people give their statements and tell their side of the story. A scientist talks about a mysterious force that nearly seduced her in her youth ... a man can analyze other people's laughter ... another man convinces us he's the mythical character Icarus ... a screenwriter claims she gets advice from her brain tumor ... a migrant farm worker watches her parents turn to rain ... a young woman talks about all the "first times" that made her life truly meaningful. These stories and many others make up this intimate mosaic, this snapshot of who we were at the turn of the century.
Rosey Strub, producer ; written and directed by José Rivera ; a Bard at the Gate and McCarter Theatre Center production.
Title from title screen (viewed April 03, 2023).
Isabel Arraiza, Danielle Davenport, Sara Koviak, MichaelJohn McGann, Joél Perez, Felix Angel Solis, Paula Vogel.
Executive producers, Paula Vogel, Nicole A. Watson.