Student Tribune
The Sixth Act: Spring 2019
Please see below for an outline of Sixth Act offerings during the Spring
2019 semester. We're excited for each of these events and would love faculty,
staff, and students to participate. Please contact Maria Brandt at mbrandt@monroecc.edu with any
questions.
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Sixth Act Night at Geva
Thursday, March 7, 7:30 PM, Geva Theatre Center
Work with The Sixth Act to bring your class to Geva to see Stephen Karam's
The Humans at only $15 per ticket. The Humans won four 2016
Tony awards, including Best Play. The New York Times review
states, "With or without [its] ominous suggestions that the American family as
we know it is under existential threat, 'The Humans' is a major discovery, a
play as empathetic as it is clear-minded, as entertaining as it is honest. For
all the darkness at its core -- a darkness made literal in its ghostly
conclusion -- a bright light shines forth from it, the blazing luminescence of
collective artistic achievement."
Sixth Act Night at VaPA
Friday, April 5, 7:30 PM, MCC Theater
Join us to see VaPA's production of Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A
Post-Electric Play, a breathtaking re-examination of the "Cape Fear"
episode of The Simpsons. The New York Times writes, "This
intoxicating and sobering vision of an American future, set during a
day-after-tomorrow apocalypse, isn't just some giddy head trip.... It has
depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination. At the end..., you're
likely to feel both exhausted and exhilarated from all the layers of time and
thought you've traveled through.... The vital instinct to pass on and share
stories, inevitably reshaping them along the way, is what this show
celebrates." The production will be followed by a talkback with the student
artists involved.
Visiting Playwright: Mary Kathryn Nagle
Thursday, May 2, 7 PM, Monroe B, Reading and Book-Signing
Free and Open to the Public
Friday, May 3, 12 PM, Monroe B, Playwriting Workshop
Free and Open to the MCC Community
Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She
currently serves as the Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing
Arts Program and also is a partner at Pipestem Law, P.C., where she works to
protect tribal sovereignty and the inherent right of Indian Nations to protect
their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault. Nagle has
authored numerous briefs in federal appellate courts, including the United
States Supreme Court, and is a frequent speaker at law schools and symposia
across the country. As playwright, Nagle is an alumn of the 2012 PUBLIC THEATER
Emerging Writers Group, where she developed her play Manahatta in
PUBLIC STUDIO (May 2014). Productions include Miss Lead (Amerinda,
59E59, January 2014), Fairly Traceable (Native Voices at the Autry,
March 2017), Sovereignty (Arena Stage), and Manahatta (Oregon
Shakespeare Festival). In 2019, the Rose Theater (Omaha, NE) will produce her
new play Return to Niobrara, and Portland Center Stage will produce
the world premiere of Mnisose.
Twelfth Annual Sixth Act Student Playwriting
Competition
Thursday, May 9, 7 PM, Black Box Theater
Reservations Required
This competition encourages MCC students to write plays for an audience, to
provide MCC students a competitive venue for their scripts, to offer winning
playwrights the opportunity to see their scripts performed as staged readings
with an eye towards future play development, and to offer VaPA students the
opportunity to participate in the new-play-development process. Three winning
playwrights receive cash prizes. One winning playwright also will have his/her
play submitted to a nationwide competition. Scripts will be accepted for
consideration beginning in September.
Brandt, Maria
The Sixth Act
12/06/2018