“To pick and choose

have one of these and one of those

and make a life of that.”

 

The Dance of the Seven Veils is based on Obie award-winning playwright, Charles L. Mee's work Salome. Mee publishes all his work online and claims that there is no such thing as an original play. He borrows heavily from classical sources as well as contemporary forms of communication such as blogs and Twitter, and then combines all of these into theatrical collages with a unique, organic narrative formed by multiple voices.

 

Veils uses parts of Mee's script, but removes all of the narrative structure, replacing it with a story woven from the real lives of sex workers. The text of Veils was created using TNTP's interviews with sex workers, while also drawing materials from public domain blogs and books. Much of the text is derived from a social networking site for sex workers called NakedTruth.ca. The play involves three women who will represent one sex worker's story at multiple stages in her life. In reality, they are speaking the voices of several women, imagined and real, to comprise a singular, universal story of what it “means to be a woman.”

 

 

The Dance of the Seven Veils is compiled and written by Amanda Lyn Jungquist and is under the direction of Keith Paul Medelis (Director, The Spring Awakening Project) and choreographed by Ben Stange (Director, Cloud Tectonics).

 

 

Special pay-what-you-can previews will be held on February 9 and 10. The production opens on February 11 and runs through February 28, Friday-Monday. All performances will start at 8 pm.

 

Tickets are $15, and students/seniors/industry tickets are $10 (cash or check only). Tickets can be reserved by calling or texting The New Theatre Project box office at (734) 645-9776 or emailing tickets@thenewtheatreproject.org. Seating is limited and reservations are strongly recommended.

 

 

Performances are held at the Pot & Box, 220 Felch St., Ann Arbor. Free parking is available onsite.

The New Theatre Project LLC

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The Dance of the Seven Veils

By Amanda Lyn Jungquist

Inspired by Charles L. Mee’s Salome

Directed by Keith Paul Medelis

Choreographed by Ben Stange

 

Featuring Amanda Lyn Jungquist, Linda Rabin-Hammell, and Maria Thomas

 

February 9-28, 2011

 

Fridays-Mondays at 8 pm

Pot & Box, 220 Felch St. in Ann Arbor

 

Check out the reviews!

A Four Star review from Examiner.com!

“The Dance of the Seven Veils” exposes the inner woman

 

‘Veils’ asks questions: Do we have answers? from Encore Michigan

February 2011

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-examiner.com