The University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance publishes a video interview with Will Davis, director of Lisa D'Amour's play The Cataract, opening this week:
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Playwright Lisa D'Amour Talks with UT's El Alcalde, October 2
The Alcalde on-line magazine of the Texas Exes alumni association publishes an interview with alumna Lisa D'Amour (MFA) as the Department of Theatre and Dance prepares to stage her work The Cataract on October 19 - 28:
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| Lisa D'Amour (via the Alcalde) |
by Rose Cahalan, October 2, 2012
When playwright Lisa D’Amour, MFA ’96, finished a workshop at Hampshire College last year, she checked her voicemail. To her shock, dozens of vague, celebratory messages had poured in: “Lisa, congratulations!” and “Wow, just heard the news!” D’Amour turned to a friend and said, “I think I just won something.”
D’Amour’s play Detroit had just been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The elite honor was only the latest accolade in D’Amour’s highly acclaimed and rapidly ascending career—she also won an OBIE, or Off-Broadway Theater Award, for Nita and Zita in 2003.
In the past few weeks alone, arts and culture giants the New York Times and the New Yorker have both published glowing reviews of Detroit, a dark comedy about relationships and the recession co-starring former Friends star David Schwimmer. The Times called Detroit “Superb … a sharp X-ray of the embattled American psyche as well as a smart, tart critique of the country’s fraying social fabric.”
New Orleans native D’Amour found time last week for a visit to campus, where the Department of Theatre and Dance will soon stage her drama The Cataract (performances run Oct 19-28 in the B. Iden Payne Theatre) [click for more information at AustinLiveTheatre.com]. In between a packed schedule of workshops, guest lectures, and media appearances, D’Amour caught up with The Alcalde.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Upcoming: The Cataract by Lisa D'Amour, University of Texas, October 19 - 28
The Cataract
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by Lisa D'Amour
directed by Will Davis
October 19 - 28, 2012
B. Iden Payne Theatre, University of Texas
$15.00-25.00
PERFORMANCES
Oct. 19, 24, 25, 26, 27 at 8 pm
Oct. 21, 27, 28 at 2 pm
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Presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance
“I want to know you. I want to crawl underneath your skin…We are different, but deep down, very deep down, we have a shared language, a shared way of reading the world. If I could truly know you, then I could understand the world and my place in it.”
Set in Minneapolis in 1883, this poetic drama explores one week in the lives of Cyrus and Lottie Finch, a stalwart couple who take in two vagabond lovers from the South. The unlikely pairs’ intersection unearths their deep-seated desires – ones which they fight to keep buried.
About the playwright and director
Lisa D’Amour is a Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright and an alumna of The University of Texas at Austin. Her acclaimed play Detroit (Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist) was recently produced at Steppenwolf Theater Company and London’s Royal National Theater.
Will Davis (formally Daria Davis) recently directed the critically acclaimed production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the Department of Theatre and Dance. She is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University and is currently pursuing her master of fine arts at The University of Texas at Austin.
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