Women's Project Seeks 50 Strong Volunteers To Get Their Rocks Off 4/16

The women of Women's Project, the 32-year-old non-profit theater dedicated to producing plays written and directed by women, need 50 strong volunteers to help them get their rocks off on Friday, April 16, beginning at 10:00am and continuing until the deed is done.

Now, before any theatre-lovers get excited, this is for real. On Friday morning, Women's Project is getting 20 tons of rocks dropped off on the sidewalk in front of its West 55th Street theater. The rocks are the scenery for the Women's Project/Cherry Lane Theatre world premiere of Sheila Callaghan's Lascivious Something directed by Daniella Topol and will look like a Greek Island when completed.

The 50 strong volunteers are needed for a "bucket brigade" to load the rocks from the sidewalk on to the newly-reinforced Women's Project stage. All volunteers will receive a pair of tickets to a preview of Lascivious Something, starring Rob Campbell, Dana Eskelson, Ronete Levenson and Elisabeth Waterston, that begins previews Sunday, May 2, for an opening Tuesday, May 11.

Volunteers will also receive a souvenir rock.

Lascivious Something takes place on a small, Greek island vineyard on which Sheila Callaghan weaves a tale of passion among an American, his young Greek bride, and a fractious, uninvited woman who arrives just in time for the couple's first wine tasting.

Lascivious Playwright
Sheila Callaghan's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, The LARK, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, Woolly Mammoth, and Rattlestick Playwright's Theatre, among others. Ms. Callaghan is the recipient of a 2005 Cherry Lane Mentorship Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the prestigious Whiting Award. Her full-length plays include Scab, Crawl, Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), We Are Not These Hands, Dead City, Kate Crackernuts, That Pretty Pretty; or The Rape Play, and Fever/Dream. Currently, Ms. Callaghan is a writer on the Showtime series The United States of Tara.

Questions and answers with lascivious playwright Sheila Callaghan can be found at www.womensproject.org/lascivious%20something_playwright.htm

Lascivious Bios
Rob Campbell has premiered many roles on Broadway and off including roles for Caryl Churchill (Mad Forest), David Hare (Ivanov), Brian Friel (Translations), Suzan-Lori Parks (In the Blood and 365 Plays), Craig Lucas (The Singing Forest and Small Tragedy - Obie Award), Steve Martin (Wasp), Theresa Rebeck (Our House), and Emily Mann (Cherry Orchard). Among his film credits are Unforgiven, The Crucible, Boys Don't Cry, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, and Ethan Frome.

Dana Eskelson's roles include Marya Grekovna in Platonov, Varya in The Cherry Orchard, Masha in Three Sisters, and Masha in The Seagull with The Chekhov Retreat directed by Brian Mertes and Melissa Kievman.

Ronete Levinson's has appeared in New York in Our Town at the Barrow Street Theater; What Once We Felt at Lincoln Center Theater, Origin Story at The Public, and Stunning at New York Theater Workshop. Regionally, she has appeared at Berkelely Rep, Shakespeare Theater of D.C., The McCarter Theater.

Elisabeth Waterston most recently appeared as Isabella in Theatre for a New Audience's production of Measure for Measure. Her other New York credits include The Tempest for Classic StageCompany, The Young Left at the Cherry Lane, and Much Ado About Nothing at the New York Shakespeare Festival.

More lascivious bios at www.womensproject.org/lascivious%20something_creativeteam.html

Lascivious Tickets
Single lascivious tickets are $52.00 at www.Telecharge.com or 212.239.6200. Lascivious Women's Project member tickets are $15.00 at membership@womensproject.org or 212.765.2105. For lascivious groups of nine or more, tickets are $25.00 at membership@womensproject.org or 212.765.2105.

Lascivious performances May 2 through June 6 are Sunday and Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm except for May 9, 23 and 31; Thursday through Saturday evenings are at 8:00pm with one Wednesday evening June 2 performance at 8:00pm. Matinees are Sundays at 3:00pm.