Albertine Theatre To Present NY Premiere of Tourino's 'Quickening'

INVISIBLE LLC & ALBERTINE THEATRE are pleased to announce the New York premiere production of QUICKENING written and directed by Rebecca Tourino. QUICKENING will play a limited engagement at Center Stage, NY (48 West 21st Street, 4th Fl.). Performances begin Wednesday, September 17 and continue through Sunday, September 28. Press are invited to all performances.

One out of four women in the United States has had an abortion. It is a common experience. But most of them don't talk about it. For four strangers in a Portland clinic, the choice is simple enough. Getting to and from it, however, turns out to be anything but. Presented by Invisible, LLC and Albertine Theatre, the New York premiere of Quickening, written and directed by Rebecca Tourino, tells the story of one of the most complicated choices of all, and what happens when women shut out the noise and start talking.

The production features scenic design by Jessica Forsythe and Rebecca Tourino, costume design by Rebecca Tourino, lighting and sound design by Ian Wehrle. Lucy Owen is the Assistant Director and Rachel James is the stage manager.

QUICKENING plays the following regular schedule through Sunday, September 28:

Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
Thursdays at 8 p.m.
Fridays at 8 p.m.
Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Sundays at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $25 ($20 stu/sen) and are now available online at www.theatermania.com or by calling 212-352-3101. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the Center Stage, NY Box Office 1 hour prior to the performance.

10% of all proceeds go to Planned Parenthood

Running time: 2 hours

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BIOGRAPHIES

Rebecca Tourino (Playwright & Director) is an actor and playwright. Acting: Regional credits include Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Peter Pan, MacBeth, 42nd Street, Taming of the Shrew (PCPA Theaterfest), Much Ado About Nothing (Globe Theatre, London), The Tempest, The Rivals, The Merchant of Venice (Texas Shakespeare Festival), Cupide and Psyche (Oregon Cabaret Theater), Damn Yankees! (Rogue Music Theater), Titus! (San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), Into the Woods, Ruthless! (BareStage), and Twelfth Night (East Bay Actor's Collective). Playwriting: Recipient of the Coyote REP Moon Award for Excellence in Playwriting. Plays include Goblin Market, a theatrical adaptation of the poem by Christina Rossetti, produced at Stanford University; The Naked Eye Planets, produced by Coyote REP in New York at the American Theater of Actors in 2007; Quickening, produced in Los Angeles by Lucid By Proxy at the Paul F. Richards Theater Place, and a brand-new play entitled What She Means. This is the New York premiere of QUICKENING. B.A.,University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A in Acting, University of California, Irvine. Graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts. Tourino teaches at the New York Film Academy. www.rebeccatourino.com

JESSICA FORSYTHE (Artistic Director/Producer) has helped develop, direct and design works for Green Sea Theatre, The Collective, Invisible LLC and Albertine Theatre Company here in New York. Shows include The Bald Soprano by Ionesco, The Maids by Jean Genet, The Lesson by Ionesco, and The Secret Rapture by David Hare. She also works in development and project management for Cypress Films. Jessica graduated with a BFA in Theatre from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2003. Upon graduating, she studied Meisner with Bill Esper at the William Esper Studio here in Manhattan.

ALBERTINE THEATRE was created to celebrate and honor the boundless spectrum of female identity and to explore how society at large is shaped by it. The members of Albertine are grounded by a commitment to showcasing the work of past and contemporary women playwrights from all corners of the world.