Each year we strive to raise the bar on all aspects of our Athena Project Arts Festival. Our 2015 Truth & Perception festival is no exception. This year, we are proud to announce we will have events in 5 metro area Arts Districts (Downtown Denver, Santa Fe, RiNo, Aurora Cultural Arts District and 40 West Arts).
Highlights of the festival include the world premiere of Harm's Way, our first full music festival at Cervantes' Other Side, 18 play performances at The Aurora Fox Studio Theatre, an evening of world dance at the Metropolitan State University Denver Center for Visual Arts, 2 galleries filled with photography by female artists, a multi-media fashion show featuring emerging designers and our capstone Girls' Write performance at the Denver Center Conservatory Theatre.
Here are details for all of our upcoming events:
- World Premiere of Harm's Way by Marilyn Harris Kriegel, starring Karen Grassle, directed by Penny Walrath Cole
Harm's Way is a provocative look at paranoia, denial and whether we're desensitized to violence.
Synopsis: The play takes place in the first decade of the 21st century when the United States, shocked by terrorism, tries to protect itself from further attack. Maggie Leeds, confused and disoriented, arrives in Paris on a visit to her son and his new wife. It's entirely unclear from the shreds of her bizarre travel tale whether she is a muddled, jetlagged older woman or a national security risk; whether a career as a science fiction writer, or something far darker, is responsible for her improbable story. While Maggie tries to sort out the pieces of her inexplicably fragmented mind, Andrew, her adult, expatriate son, blocks any attempts at opening the door to her confusion or to his own past. Insisting on making sense out of the pieces of this curious puzzle, Martine, Andrew's intrepid French wife, risks her marriage and her Mother-in-law's safety to discover la verite, the truth.
Karen Grassle (pronounced Grassley) is best known for her role as Caroline Ingalls, the mother, in the long-running NBC-TV series Little House on the Prairie from 1974-1982. She also starred in many movies of the week, including Battered, which she co-wrote with Cynthia Lovelace-Sears. They won the American Women in Radio and Television Award for their script which broke open the topic of battered women in the U.S. She appeared on Broadway in The Gingham Dog, Butterflies Are Free, and Sweet Sue. In resident theatres throughout the country, Ms. Grassle played roles as varied as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire to the prostitute in Muzeeka. She was a company member at Actor's Theatre of Louisville appearing in classics and world premieres. She also appeared at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Since returning to the San Francisco Bay Area, she has worked at the Aurora Theatre, Theatre Works in Palo Alto and at the San Francisco Playhouse where this fall, she played Franki in the acclaimed world premiere of 77% by Rinne Groff. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art on a Fulbright and subsequently studied with teachers as various as Kristin Linklater, Roy London, and Yurek Bogayevicz. Ms. Grassle is completing a memoir that tells her story.
An Opening Night Reception will be held on March 20th from 6-8 p.m. at The ACAD Gallery, 1400 Dallas Street
World Premiere of Harm's Way by Marilyn Harris Kriegel
March 20- April 5
Fridays/Saturdays @ 8 p.m.; Sundays @ 2 p.m.
$22 for adults, $20 for students/seniors/military, $18 group discounts avail for 10+ people
@ Aurora Fox Studio Theatre, 9900 E. Colfax Avenue, Aurora 80010.
All tickets are on sale at www.AthenaProjectFestival.org or by calling the Aurora Fox box office at 303-739-1970.
- Workshop productions of four new plays all written by women, called our Plays In Progress (PIP) Series.
Each play will get 2 workshop readings. Workshop level productions are designed with minimum sets, lights, sound, etc. and they also allow for an audience to give feedback. One play will be selected from this series to be produced in Athena Project's 2016 Arts Festival. Your vote counts!
The plays are:
- The Draper's Eye by Fengar Gael (April 4 @ 4 p.m. and 5 @ 7 p.m.)
- We'll Never Get to Moscow by Rebecca Gorman O'Neill (March 26 @7 p.m. and March 28 @1 p.m.)
- Two Degrees by Tira Palmquist (March 28 @ 4 p.m. and March 29 @ 7 p.m.)
- Sheltered by Catherine Wiley (April 2 @7 p.m. and April 4 @ 1 p.m.)
Special Table Reading, sponsored by ScriptShape. On Monday March 23 at 7 p.m. at The ACAD Gallery, 1400 Dallas Street, we will feature a table read of local playwright Julie Excell's play Crane Dance. This event is free and open to the public.
- Plays In Progress (PIP) Series.
Saturdays @ 1 and 4 p.m.; Sundays and Thursdays @ 7 p.m.
$12 per play
@ The Aurora Fox Studio Theatre, 9900 E. Colfax Avenue, Aurora 80010
All tickets are on sale at AthenaProjectFestival.org or by calling the Aurora Fox box office at 303-739-1970
Additional Festival Events:
- Art gallery shows, curated by Janice Schindler and featuring works of photography by female visual artists and in collaboration with Month of Photography, The ACAD Gallery, 1400 Dallas Street in Aurora, 80010 and Metropolitan State University Denver Center for Visual Arts, Emerging Artist Gallery, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO
The galleries will be open regular gallery hours as well as for special events taking place within the gallery.
- An Art Exhibition will be shown at 40 West Arts Gallery, 1560 Teller Street, Lakewood from January 28-February 14
- Pop Up Art and Fashion Boutique on First Friday, February 6th from 4:30-7:30 p.m.
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