Road Theatre Company to Present UPON THE FRAGILE SHORE at NoHo Arts Center

THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY at THE NOHO ARTS COLONY 10747 MAGNOLIA BLVD.NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA 91601 (roadtheatre.org)joins the line-up of worldwide organizations that will present readings of 2012 OBIE Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich's new play. This work of intertwining monologues explores human rights and environmental issues around the world, especially in relationship to human-made tragedies and their aftermath. These readings are an initiative of NoPassport (www.nopassport.org) for Human Rights International reading scheme. THE ROAD THEATRE will present a reading (LIVE OR VIA VIDEO IN DIGITAL SEGMENTS ) which centers on stories from the United States, Nigeria, Syria, Malaysia, sub-Sahara, and Venezuela.

THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY'S reading will be produced by CARLYLE KING and directed by STEWART J. ZULLY, with a cast of ROAD ACTORS featuring: Michelle Gillette, Todd Curran, Elizabeth Southard, Yanni Marin, Ann Hu, Joshua Wolf Coleman,Kathy Bell Denton and Ash Nair.Darryl Johnson will be the videographer at THE ROAD 10741 MAGNOLIA BLVD. NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA. The overall reading scheme is a ROAD THEATRE co-production between NoPassport, Jody Christopherson, (The Skype Show, New York Theatre Review, http://newyorktheatrereview.blogspot.com/), and Zac Kline (Missing Bolts).

Additional theaters and venues that will be presenting the play are Ensemble Theater of Norway, Ion Theatre (San Diego, CA), Theater Alliance (Washington D.C.), National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney, Australia), Alameda Theatre (Toronto, Canada), University of Pretoria (South Africa) Dept of Theatre, Baruch College (NYC), Missing Bolts (Digital Film Action, NYC), CalArts (California), Teatro Paraguas (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Theatre Asylum (Canada), Camino Real Productions (Albuquerue, New Mexico) and an alumni reading at New Dramatists (NYC). Additional presenting venues will be announced in the near future.

The play is based on an earlier short play commissioned by New York Madness. Upon the Fragile Shore is a play with 16 characters, played by 4 actors, that focuses on human rights and environmental issues around the world, especially in relationship to human-made tragedies and their aftermath. It is the third play in Caridad Svich's trilogy of plays addressing national issues/global concerns that include Upon the Fragile Shore, This Thing of Ours and The Orphan Sea (commissioned and to be produced by University of Missouri-Columbia, fall 2014). Svich's other plays include The Way of Water, Spark, 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia...a rave fable, and The House of the Spirits, based on the novel by Isabel Allende. Her American quartet of plays Guapa, The Way of Water, Spark, and Hide Sky sustained global schemes in 2012. Spark premieres September 2014 at Theater Alliance in Washington D.C.

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