EST Presents Time/Unstuck by Bell & Doran, April 20-30

Ensemble Studio Theatre and Horse Trade will present Time/Unstuck, an evening by The Gang of Four, EST's young directors' residency, featuring new plays by Neal Bell and Bathsheba Doran. Performances will begin Thursday, April 20th and continue through Sunday, April 30th, with opening night set for Friday, April 21st.

In Bell's A Time Piece (directed by Jordan Young), "Tim, a man haunted by his past falls into the memory of a seminal moment in his relationship with his father and faces what happened in the two hours wiped from his memory during one sweltering night in August fifteen years prior," state press notes.

In Bathsheba Doran's 2 Soldiers (directed by Dominic D'Andrea), "two soldiers, one from 1412 and one from 1974, debate honor, courage and sacrifice while waiting to battle an unknown and unseen enemy."

"Not only an incubator for innovative, original new plays, EST has long fostered the development of individual artists. One of several programs intended to support the next generation of theatre, EST's Young Directors' Residency seeks to mentor and provide opportunities for rising, early career professional stage directors devoted to new work. Recent alumni of the program include Robert Isaac Hurwitz (co-founder New York Musical Theatre Festival), RJ Tolan (co-Artistic Director of Youngblood, EST's young playwrights group), and Robert Ross Parker (co-Artistic Director of Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company)."

Bell's plays--including Two Small Bodies, Raw Youth, Cold Sweat, Sleeping Dogs and Spatter Pattern--have appeared at Playwrights Horizons in New York and at regional theatres, including Berkeley Rep, the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, the La Jolla Playhouse, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, where his ten-minute play Out the Window was a co-winner of the 1990 Heideman Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment, and the Guggenheim Foundation, he was awarded an Obie in 1992 for sustained achievement in playwriting.

Doran's plays include this season's Living Room in Africa at Edge Theater Company directed by Carolyn Cantor, Odes and Gameshows (The Camden People's Theatre), Until Morning (BBC Radio 4), 15 Minutes (Edinburgh Festival), The War Play (Abingdon Theatre), and The Parents' Evening (Cherry Lane Theatre). Her adaptation of Peer Gynt was directed by Andrei Serban at The Riverside Church. She is a playwriting fellow at The Julliard School.

Performances are Thursday through Sunday evenings, April 20-30 @ 8:00pm. Adult tickets are $15, Student/Senior tickets are $10. To purchase tickets call SmartTix at 212-868-4444 or visit online at www.horseTRADE.info. Visit www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org for more information on the company.