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Join us in Montgomery, AL on December 8th at 7pm for The Nora Project Final Presentations

Over the past ten weeks, a group of teenage girls from Lanier High School and elder women from the Montgomery community, have been meeting once a week to get to know one another, share their life stories, and explore the art of storytelling.  Each was then tasked with writing a short play based on something they heard in their inter-generational partner’s story.

Join us when experienced local actors read these original short scripts in front of a live audience.

The Nora Project: Women Write – Final Presentations
Thursday, December 8 | 7:00 PM
Lanier High School | Auditorium
1756 S. Court Street, Montgomery

The event is FREE and open to the public.
A small reception will follow.

The Nora Project Final Presentations includes:
Ebony Allen’s A Woman’s World
Charity Glover’s A 21 st Century Love Story
Carrington Fraley’s Dreams Come True
Emko Pash’s Does It Ever Stop?
Kayla Suttles’ Turmoil
Kamiya Williams’ Three Days on a Plane
Cynthia Jancaterino’s Luck Floats
Henrietta MacGuire’s Cross Currents
Charlotte Mussafer’s The Budding Singer
Susie Paul’s The Glass Coffin
Margaret Pearl’s Follow Your Dreams
Susan Samuel’s How Gran Just About Ruined My Life Trying to Get Me Into College
and Karkie Tackett’s Icons

Cast:
Tori Carl, Tom Lawson, Jr., Labrandon Milbry-Tyre, Katie Pearson, Danielle Phillips, Yvette Smedley-Jones, Kayla Summerlin, Jackie Trimble, Victor Trotter, Jr., Silver Wallace, and Matthew Watkins

The Nora Project is presented by Nora’s Playhouse.
The Nora Project is supported, in part, by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

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Past Events Staged Readings

Don’t Miss REHEARSING DESIRE!

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Don’t Miss REHEARSING DESIRE!
TOMORROW – Friday, August 12 at 7PM

Guild Hall
1 East 29th Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10016

RSVP: reservations@norasplayhouse.org


•The Process•

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What I like most about ‘Rehearsing Desire’ is the way playwright Suzanne Trauth braids together multiple tales of conflict and passion.

The actors at Kiev Theatre Company portraying Blanche and Stanley struggle with their own troubled romantic history. An attempted coup in Moscow threatens the Soviet Union and unleashes the full power of the Ukrainian Independence rebellion raging in the streets outside the theatre. The main character, Charlotte, is doing her best to bring the production of ‘Streetcar’ to fruition but gets caught in the crosshairs of the personal and political turmoil.

That may sound heavy, but Trauth’s play is also fast-paced, funny, and deeply moving. My job as director is to bring out all of those dynamics for the audience.

– Amy S. Green, Director

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Past Events Staged Readings

Politcal unrest, black market deals, a love triangle… the show must go on!

On the morning of August 19, 1991, playwright Suzanne Trauth woke up to news of the coup in Russia that would eventually topple the Soviet Union:

Our rehearsal period had ended, scenes had been performed publicly, and a cast party had capped the two week cultural exchange with the Theatre on Podol in Kiev, Ukraine. Our plans to fly home that day were cancelled.  That night, at the home of the artistic director of the theatre, we ate vodka-infused watermelon in front of his television, flipping back and forth between Shirley Temple tap dancing in a bootleg copy of the movie “That’s Entertainment,” and a press conference with the coup plotters—visibly drunk—on a Russian broadcast. It was one of the most surreal experiences of my life. 

On the evening of August 12, 2016, join Nora’s Playhouse for a reading of the semi-autobiographical play based on those incredible events of 25 years ago.

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