Columbia Presents RIVERS AND TRIBUTARIES 2/16-19

Columbia University School of the Arts, Theatre Arts Program Presents RIVERS AND TRIBUTARIES, Written and Directed by CARIN Jean White runs February 16-19, 2011

The Riverside Theatre
91 Claremont Avenue
Between 120th and 122nd Streets

$15 General Admission/$5 Seniors
FREE with Columbia University ID or any other valid student ID

San Francisco, 1970: As Michael's last year of art school draws to a close, doubt overtakes him. When offered an opportunity in Europe, his doubts turn to fear.
New York City, 2010: Three people waiting in line to see Marina Abramovi? at MoMA start out as strangers but come to find a sense of community as they spend the day together and witness the function of fear.

Rivers and Tributaries is an original piece about the decisions one makes on the differing paths to becoming an artist-paths one hopes will lead us to prosperity. Rivers and Tributaries interweaves two story lines to investigate the role of fear in the genesis of art, and its impact on the artist.
Inspired by one long day in line, waiting to sit with Marina Abramovi? at MoMA, Carin Jean White challenged herself to write a meditation on her own fears for that unsteady road: the life of the artist.

Carin Jean White (Director) was born and raised in the Bay Area. She is a third-year MFA Directing Candidate at Columbia University. She has worked with Sundance Theatre Labs, California Shakespeare Theatre Company, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, Performance Workshop (Taiwan), and Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Notable productions have been Room 603, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Nickeled and Dimed: on (not) getting by in America, Miss Julie, and The Cherry Orchard. Writing Rivers and Tributaries began on the heels of assisting the notable Taiwanese director Dr. Stan Lai in Taipei at The National Theatre on his production of Happiness Lessons. Dr. Lai's approach and method to creating narrative plays has served as a model for Carin's process on Rivers and Tributaries. This summer Carin will be presenting a site-specific theatre work, The Secret Life of a Street in Prague at the Prague Quadrennial.

Tickets for events at The Riverside Theatre can be purchased online (www.ColumbiaStages.org); by phone (212.870.6784); or by visiting the box office of The Riverside Theatre. Box Office hours are Thursday-Saturday, 4-8pm; Sunday 12-4pm and 1 hour prior to all performances.

Performance Schedule: (all performances at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Sts.)

Wednesday, February 16th at 8pm
Thursday, February 17th at 8pm
Friday, February 18th at 8pm
Saturday, February 19th at 2pm & 8pm

Columbia Stages is the producing arm of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre
Studies of Columbia University's School of the Arts. Columbia Stages presents a season
of graduate actor and director productions as well as an annual festival of new plays by
emerging playwrights. The theatre program offers MFA degrees in acting, directing,
playwriting, dramaturgy, stage management, and theatre management and producing. The
goal of the program is to provide each student with the foundation for a career in
professional theatre as well as the tools to embrace an ever-changing theatrical landscape
and shape the future of the theatre.

For more information, visit www.ColumbiaStages.org

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